Boise Ed sends this in: “Is the bottom part unglassed? It appears that a metal hand is attached to the side of the meat pile. Perhaps “heroes” refers to sandwiches, but who makes them with ground beef?”
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I think that is a scoop, for, you know, scooping the stuff. How else are you going to get the fixings for your legend? I don’t think it has anything to do with meat, either. It’s just the generic stuff you need to make your legend.
Agreeing with Guero—it’s a scoop. The sign says it’s the Bulk section, and his basket is full of plastic bags closed with twist ties. It’s a serve-yourself kind of thing.
Sometimes the artist has no idea what the colorist is going to do. That meat color could just be a random coloring choice. The “stuff” is just that – stuff.
The stuff legends are made of should be rare and extremely difficult to attain. And yet here he is, in the bulk section of a market, able to get scoops of the stuff for a mere $8.50/lb. It would appear the stuff has become common.
Completely off topic, but I have a friend who once upon a time, used her name as an email address. Recently, she has been receiving emails at this address that she seldom uses anymore, but it seems like she has an Idiot Bill Bickel situation. That reminded me of our departed host, and I wonder if IBB is continuing their shenanigans even now.
It turns out that legends are made of some pretty common stuff. It’s what you do with the ingredient that matters.
Voodoo Chicken: I have one of those with my Gmail. For years I’ve gotten his stuff. I’ve watched him retire and move to Colorado (signing up for a whole NEW set of stuff); he’s used it for email related to certifications–yes, I asked the certification people to tell him to buy a clue, and it didn’t help. I know his blood type, where he went to college, and a lot of other personal details about him and his wife that I shouldn’t know. I have a Quick Step in Outlook set up that moves his notes to a folder; at this point there are over 3,000 of them. No, I don’t know why I’m keeping them–at this point it’s basically just for S&G.
Could I hunt him down and tell him to knock it off directly? Perhaps, though when it started, I was able to figure out who he was but didn’t find a phone# (or alternative email). But if he’s this stupid after [checks] more than TWELVE YEARS, I’m not sure I’m interested in bailing him out.
Weirdly, I miss the IBB updates, so thanks, phsii, for your version.
chemgal: that is weird! :)
I should buy idiotphsiii.com and post all his notes there.
No, I wouldn’t do that, but it would be entertaining. And I’m 100% sure legal–all of those email warnings saying “If you are not the intended recipient, burn your PC and gouge your eyes out immediately” are nonsense. It was sent to me, I own it. Period.
I also have one of those quasi-doppels, but didn’t realize it for quite a while. I didn’t see a pattern that so many of what I took to be spam emails addressed themselves to Mary Marks — I thought they were just making up an expansion of “mmarks”. But eventually there were so many of them, and there started to be consistent references to localities, and finally a specific street address in a Pennsylvania town I have no connection with. And I had to conclude this Mary Marks is using an address that I use, to sign up for things.
It’s not precisely a disused address for me, but sort of — it no longer appears in From or Return Address in my email, and I never give it out as my address, but it does underlie an address that I fully use. The domain is just from one of those “Regional Bells” that sprung up following the breakup of long-ago AT&T and was my landline telco, acting as ISP when I started modeming online. It now has been absorbed in the resurrected AT&T giant, but the old name is still around. (Not to be mysterious, it was ameritech.net .)
What I can’t tell for sure is whether there is some glitch in the system allowing Mary to actually receive these materials she is requesting, while they also come to me to keep my spam filters busy. Once or twice I tried writing back to the sender, but got no response; and once I thought I saw a phone number in the email, and tried texting her on that number, again no response.
One of my old email addresses has an IBB situation. One used it as his email for Bell Canada. So I get emails that have his phone number on. He’s frequently late with payments, possibly because he never gets the reminders. I tried texting him at the number but he ignored the messages. I could probably reset his password and take over the account if I had a mind to.
Another person (or the same one) signed up for a newsletter from Rangers FC.
Mitch, there should be no way in hell Mary can see that email. Which is part of why I’m so gobsmacked that my doppleganger hasn’t twigged after all these years.
But the fact that this is as common as it is surprises me. What doesn’t surprise me is that it’s hard to undo by being nice and trying to let them know: I’m sure most people don’t think it’s even possible (&deity knows THEY couldn’t make such a mistake!) and therefore assume it’s a scam.
I was getting a lot of emails to a woman who was looking for help getting out of an abusive relationship, in Nevada. Appointments and similar. I tried really hard to contact either her, or the bureaus trying to contact her, and maybe I got through – the emails eventually stopped. I hope she got out OK.
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I think that is a scoop, for, you know, scooping the stuff. How else are you going to get the fixings for your legend? I don’t think it has anything to do with meat, either. It’s just the generic stuff you need to make your legend.
Agreeing with Guero—it’s a scoop. The sign says it’s the Bulk section, and his basket is full of plastic bags closed with twist ties. It’s a serve-yourself kind of thing.
Sometimes the artist has no idea what the colorist is going to do. That meat color could just be a random coloring choice. The “stuff” is just that – stuff.
The stuff legends are made of should be rare and extremely difficult to attain. And yet here he is, in the bulk section of a market, able to get scoops of the stuff for a mere $8.50/lb. It would appear the stuff has become common.
Completely off topic, but I have a friend who once upon a time, used her name as an email address. Recently, she has been receiving emails at this address that she seldom uses anymore, but it seems like she has an Idiot Bill Bickel situation. That reminded me of our departed host, and I wonder if IBB is continuing their shenanigans even now.
It turns out that legends are made of some pretty common stuff. It’s what you do with the ingredient that matters.
Voodoo Chicken: I have one of those with my Gmail. For years I’ve gotten his stuff. I’ve watched him retire and move to Colorado (signing up for a whole NEW set of stuff); he’s used it for email related to certifications–yes, I asked the certification people to tell him to buy a clue, and it didn’t help. I know his blood type, where he went to college, and a lot of other personal details about him and his wife that I shouldn’t know. I have a Quick Step in Outlook set up that moves his notes to a folder; at this point there are over 3,000 of them. No, I don’t know why I’m keeping them–at this point it’s basically just for S&G.
Could I hunt him down and tell him to knock it off directly? Perhaps, though when it started, I was able to figure out who he was but didn’t find a phone# (or alternative email). But if he’s this stupid after [checks] more than TWELVE YEARS, I’m not sure I’m interested in bailing him out.
Weirdly, I miss the IBB updates, so thanks, phsii, for your version.
chemgal: that is weird! :)
I should buy idiotphsiii.com and post all his notes there.
No, I wouldn’t do that, but it would be entertaining. And I’m 100% sure legal–all of those email warnings saying “If you are not the intended recipient, burn your PC and gouge your eyes out immediately” are nonsense. It was sent to me, I own it. Period.
I also have one of those quasi-doppels, but didn’t realize it for quite a while. I didn’t see a pattern that so many of what I took to be spam emails addressed themselves to Mary Marks — I thought they were just making up an expansion of “mmarks”. But eventually there were so many of them, and there started to be consistent references to localities, and finally a specific street address in a Pennsylvania town I have no connection with. And I had to conclude this Mary Marks is using an address that I use, to sign up for things.
It’s not precisely a disused address for me, but sort of — it no longer appears in From or Return Address in my email, and I never give it out as my address, but it does underlie an address that I fully use. The domain is just from one of those “Regional Bells” that sprung up following the breakup of long-ago AT&T and was my landline telco, acting as ISP when I started modeming online. It now has been absorbed in the resurrected AT&T giant, but the old name is still around. (Not to be mysterious, it was ameritech.net .)
What I can’t tell for sure is whether there is some glitch in the system allowing Mary to actually receive these materials she is requesting, while they also come to me to keep my spam filters busy. Once or twice I tried writing back to the sender, but got no response; and once I thought I saw a phone number in the email, and tried texting her on that number, again no response.
One of my old email addresses has an IBB situation. One used it as his email for Bell Canada. So I get emails that have his phone number on. He’s frequently late with payments, possibly because he never gets the reminders. I tried texting him at the number but he ignored the messages. I could probably reset his password and take over the account if I had a mind to.
Another person (or the same one) signed up for a newsletter from Rangers FC.
Mitch, there should be no way in hell Mary can see that email. Which is part of why I’m so gobsmacked that my doppleganger hasn’t twigged after all these years.
But the fact that this is as common as it is surprises me. What doesn’t surprise me is that it’s hard to undo by being nice and trying to let them know: I’m sure most people don’t think it’s even possible (&deity knows THEY couldn’t make such a mistake!) and therefore assume it’s a scam.
I was getting a lot of emails to a woman who was looking for help getting out of an abusive relationship, in Nevada. Appointments and similar. I tried really hard to contact either her, or the bureaus trying to contact her, and maybe I got through – the emails eventually stopped. I hope she got out OK.