Wednesday, September 29, 2010

What's up inbox?

So, yesterday I open my email to find that vista print is telling me I am awesome. I figure, who am I to argue with my inbox? Well, today I open my spam box and find a message from a sender which appears to be in arabic. That caught my attention, because how often do you really see that on a computer. Of course, I have to look over to see what the subject line is. Here's the kicker. It's three words/characters: Really good耾.** The first two I recognize as English. The last one makes me think of chinese symbols, but not speaking (or reading) arabic or chinese, I can't really give a definitive answer.


Now, my next question is....why is 2/3 in English and the rest something I am not going to recognize? A small part of me wanted to click on it to see what this really good whatever is, reason (and fear of viruses) prevails and I do not click. My first thought was, probably just my spam box trying to sell me viagra again. So, once again I have the image of a shady looking character hanging out in a darkened alley beckoning with the line, "C'mon over here. I got some "really good shit" man! I don't know why I always think of the shady guy hanging in the darkened alley. I've either watched one too many ganster movies or I was hanging around some weird people in a past life.



Maybe I just assume the worst. Maybe it says, "really good puppies" and contains pictures of well-behaved dogs. Or "really good bagels and lox" and is an advertisement for a new deli. That could be it. That's gotta be the chinese symbol for "bagels and lox". That little part on the left looks kind of like a hunk of smoked salmon and then there's obviously a plus sign in the middle. That little thing to the right is really a bagel. I know, its not round, it's kind of a triangle, but the round circle was already taken to represent a doughnut so they had to alter it slightly to denote that it was, instead, a bagel. See Lox + bagel. (**I cut and pasted the symbol and it was there until I published. You are just gonna have to take my word for what it looked like!) That's my vote, but what do you think? Let's play fill in the blank. Finish this phrase to win something fun "Really good _______". This contest will run on our Facebook page. Our panel of expert judges (my market vendor friends) will pick the best answer at noon on October 7th.

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