Starting a fresh

After many months of no blog activity, I will return to the blog sphere soon. Check out Rays new blog...

How do you speak?

Your Linguistic Profile:

60% General American English

25% Yankee

15% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Opening Friday April 22

The Swap-O-Matic beta prototype will be displayed/tested at the Lowereast Side Girls Club. The opening is this Friday (earth day).
5-8 pm at The Lower Eastside Girls Club,
56 East 1st St, 10003.

Chain Letters

Remeber the days of old school chain letters? As I kid I remember the excitement when my father dropped a white mysterious envelope in my hand, I opened it and pulled out a neatly folded envelope with some other 4th grader's shaky scrawl describing some magical occurence that would come true if the letter sent on. Sometimes it would be a little more menacing--a xeroxed copy of a letter that looked like some very concientious after-schooler had meticulously cut out letters from his mother's "Home and Garden" right before harassing the poor woman for 40 postage stamps. Such the variety would often come with a creative message such as:
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This is a chain letter. Send this to 40 people within three days. Then bury this original letter under an elm tree at midnight with the toe nail of a white dog. Or else, you and your loved ones will regret it.
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Something like that. Perhaps there would be a slightly burned edge for effect (ok, I only know this because I did it once).

Those were the days of the good old fashioned chain letters. You took those seriously because they were tangible, creative and as a result quite scary.
Unfortunately the chain letters of yesterday have morphed into something quite different. I recently received on via email from my 10 year old cousin which read:
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. Once there was a Little gurl named Natalie and her mother really hated her but her father didnt , he gave her wat ever she wanted but until 1 day she died ..... they found her body in a river and they found out her mother killed her soo if u dont send this to 10 pples until 12:00 mid - night she will come and kill u.... Dont Egnore this b'cause the last person who did died the next day , wen she read it .! NO SEND BACKS!
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What is this? Bad story. No creativity. Spelling errors. The art of chain letters is yet another victim to the internet. (right behind tastful advertising for small, spy cameras).

People look for love at Walmart

or another excuse for people to buy stuff...
This article describes how Walmrt has become the next hottest place to meet potential lovers.

"On Friday nights, singles looking for romance, mindless flirting or just a new friend head over to their neighborhood Wal-Mart where they're given a big bright red bow to attach to their shopping cart or shopping basket.

Then it's up to the willing participants to approach one another and take it from there.

But if that's too intimidating, Wal-Mart has set up "flirting points" around the stores stacked with "romantic" merchandise, such as chocolates, wine and cheese, to help with that first awkward step."

http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/07/news/fortune500/walmart_dating/index.htm?cnn=yes

Hey Americans!

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