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kevin
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Username: Kevin
Post Number: 643
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 1:23 pm: | 
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Okay, so I logged into my email account today, which I only use for MOL, to find new mail from "Wendy Nobglider". It is obviously spam, so no need to post it.
What I find amusing and a coincidence is that:
1. I Private Messaged one of the many Wendys who post here within the past week.
2. I have in the past PMed Tom "Noglider" Reingold.
Other than these two PMs (and one today), I have not used this email account for anything else.
Has anyone else ever received any spam that appeared to be MOL relevant at first glance, but wasn't?
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doulamomma
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Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 1237
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 1:43 pm: |
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When Meandtheboys recently changed her name to WendyP (thread something like "How do I change my screenname" - please help?), there was a discussion of various Wendys & Tom briefly cnaged to Wendy Noglider I think...could be from Tom as Wendy... |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 8943
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 1:46 pm: |
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Very doubtful it could be connected unless Kevin posted his e-mail address in that thread. |
kevin
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Username: Kevin
Post Number: 645
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 1:57 pm: |
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I'm sure it's just a coincidence, but was wondering if anyone else ever had something like that happen. It was just too odd not to post.
It was definitely spam. The return address was from France. (.fr) |
Eats Shoots & Leaves
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Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 3133
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 2:02 pm: |
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Didn't Tom recently travel to France? Was he with Wendy? Hmmmmmm......... |
Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 4426
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 3:02 pm: |
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Kevin-
Can you post it for us? Were they trying to sell something?
Maybe someone was playing a joke? As doul mentioned, at one point in fun Tom R did change his name and so did Wendy. Are you sure it wasn't one of them? |
sac
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Username: Sac
Post Number: 3243
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 3:12 pm: |
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Oooh, some very juicy fodder for rumors here ... |
WendyP
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Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 3312
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 3:21 pm: |
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Well, it definately wasn't me.
And I do remember Tom messing around and changing his name to Wendy.
Very odd. |
kevin
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Username: Kevin
Post Number: 648
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 3:22 pm: |
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Aunt, it is really spam....I get enough of it in my other account to be able to identify it. Nothing that originated from MOL.
Wendy seemed to be trying to sell herself and her new website. |
MBJ
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Username: Mbj
Post Number: 196
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 3:52 pm: |
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"Wendy seemed to be trying to sell herself and her new website."
Let me guess.....Personal Financial Planning? |
doulamomma
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Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 1244
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 4:01 pm: |
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...all I would need to advise you is your bank account numbers...
WendyNoGlider |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13066
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 4:21 pm: |
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I googled "nobglider" and got no hits. Google asked me if I really meant "slibglider"!
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dave23
Citizen
Username: Dave23
Post Number: 1524
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 4:28 pm: |
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"Nobglider" has a particular Brit-porn tone to it. |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 8944
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 4:30 pm: |
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Tom,
Check Google in a few days. I bet this thread turns up in a search. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13069
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 5:08 pm: |
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Dave, I love the circular reference. The word doesn't exist, but it will exist, because of our discussion of its non-existence.
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kevin
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Username: Kevin
Post Number: 649
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 7:24 pm: |
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"Slibglider" doesn't exist either. Google wonders if I meant "snibglider", which seems to be a band.
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Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13075
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 7:26 pm: |
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Yeah, it said snibglider, not slibglider. Sorry.
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CLK
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 2042
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 7:38 pm: |
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"noglider" on the other hand gets lots of hits, and they mostly seem to relate to someone we know. (don't worry Tom, I only checked one or two very quickly just to see if it was you ...) And there is a link that needs to be posted here from time to time (written by somebody named "Dave," but I don't think there is any relation):
http://www.poopreport.com/BMnewswire/1111.html
That's right, people, our own Tom Reingold holds a very important place in Internet history. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13077
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 7:57 pm: |
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That Poop Report Story about me is more embarrassing for my daughter than for me, for obvious reasons, and also because it's the first hit you get when you google her.
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CLK
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 2043
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 8:04 pm: |
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Ouch. Now I wish I hadn't posted that. Apologies to the young Reingold lady. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13079
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 8:05 pm: |
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It's not your fault. It's completely mine. I even had an (email) interview to have that story printed.
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Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 2565
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 8:13 pm: |
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I would rather be associated with that poop report than as being a nob-glider.... |
kevin
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Username: Kevin
Post Number: 650
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 8:23 pm: |
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What I want to know is how google can take a word that doesn't exist, and then recommend another word that doesn't exist.
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jersey Boy
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Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 348
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 9:10 pm: |
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Hey, Google is named "Google." That alone is weird. Isn't that a 1 with a hundred zeros?
I prefer Yahoo! Now that's a word!
J.B. |
Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 6008
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 9:33 pm: |
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somehow Monty Python came to mind as I read this thread. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13081
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 9:47 pm: |
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A one with a hundred zeros is a googol, but yeah, that's what inspired the google name.
kevin, snibglider does exist.
And by the way, I thought I coined the word noglider, but it does have an esoteric meaning.
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kevin
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Username: Kevin
Post Number: 651
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 9:57 pm: |
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Remember Mem's "framistram" that she was having a problem with? I don't think it was ever a word but now there is someone in Texas who used it last year - that must mean it's a word now:
"...But there are STILL a lot of chauvinists out there who see a woman
walk in the door and start talking bafflegab like Framistram
Regulators and Muffler Bearings...."
http://www.talkabouttrucks.com/group/alt.autos.toyota.trucks/messages/61862.html
Who knew that bafflegab was a word?!? It means gobbledygook!
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CLK
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 2046
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 10:02 pm: |
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framistan is a word that is used to indicate any kind of fill-in-the-blank device. mem didn't invent it.
And please don't mention it here, I still get flashbacks on occasion. (mem sold me a defective one that resulted in a very bad accident, the loss of my eyebrows & fingernails, lots of lawyers, etc. etc. However we agreed to be friends and I can even type the word now. That's a real breakthrough in my therapy.) |
kevin
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Username: Kevin
Post Number: 652
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 10:03 pm: |
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Tom, I know that "snibglider" exists, re-read my post...."slibglider" doesn't exist and is what google recommends when you search on "nobglider".
Actually, I just entered "nobglider" and it is not asking me about "slibglider" anymore and just going immediately to "snibglider" - but "slibglider" still takes you to "snibglider". Weird.
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kevin
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Username: Kevin
Post Number: 653
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 10:07 pm: |
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CLK: I'm actually talking about "framistram" and not "framistan". Then again, I think that there was also "framistam" somewhere in the archives - so I really don't know which is which and now I'm pretty confused.
We probably shouldn't bring this up being that Mem is on vacation. |
CLK
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 2047
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 10:08 pm: |
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Hah - no better time.
The device she sold to me was a "framistan" (N at the end), but I wouldn't put it past her to be dabbling in other unsafe devices.  |
sac
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Username: Sac
Post Number: 3252
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 10:13 pm: |
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There was a big article in a very recent issue of Time Magazine about Google. It included the genesis of the name from the Googol as Tom mentioned, and lots of other interesting material. It's probably on Time.com somewhere - maybe should google it to find out 
And, incidentally, I love how "google" has become a verb that is in pretty universal use these days. (Has it made the dictionary yet?) |
kevin
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Username: Kevin
Post Number: 654
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 10:28 pm: |
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Tom, I re-read your post about slibglider and snibglider when we were talking about nobglider and google, and think that you were correct and I have no clue anymore.
....but I do recall having a brief email conversation with you a few years ago about a pack of razors. You also wondered if I was your neighbor. |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 9007
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 6:05 pm: |
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http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=nobglider&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13231
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 12:46 pm: |
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Just as you said would happen.
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