Balls and Walnuts
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I’m impressed with the FBI. Honestly, no snark! I received a spam which looked suspicious for child pornography, so I dropped a tip at the FBI’s website. They require you to leave all kinds of contact info, so I gave my office address and phone number.
Yeah, yeah, keep reading . . .
Not five minutes later, my pager went off. An FBI agent had called the office number, figured out the message tree (you need an IQ of 90 or better to do that), and left me a message to tell me how I should properly report child porn spam.
Here’s the website: The Cyber Tipline. Check it out. It looks like they’re on the side of the angels. And they have this nifty list of instant messaging acronyms. Did you know IPN means “I’m posting naked”? That’s good to know. And LMIRL means, “Let’s meet in real life.” I’ll be sure to save those up for our next online blogging session.
Which reminds me — anyone up for tonight? I’ll try to go live around 7 PM.
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YouTube grazers and Keith Olbermann fans will know about the lovely Bunny and her singing alter ego, Leah Kauffman, creators of the My Box in a Box video. Actually, I gather from Olbermann last night that Ms. Kauffman is the brains of the operation (and the voice), while Bunny (sorry, can’t remember her name) is the actress for the video. And you know? Bunny is the more conventionally beautiful of the two, but Ms. Kauffman, you’re my heart throb. Brains wins over beauty any day of the week. And besides, you sorta have that young Carrie Fisher thing going for you.
But you know what’s coolest of all? These gals are giving the money they make off this little enterprise to charity. Thus clearly placing Bunny and Leah way, way past the Britneys and Madonnas of the world.
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Things are looking up here at Chez Walnut. Karen saw a new doc yesterday who impressed us both. He’s a PM & R specialist, and he’s the first guy who (A) worked through all the data in a logical fashion, including (B) looking at all of Karen’s scans, then (C) came up with a well reasoned differential diagnosis and (D) a logical action plan. Woo-hoo! First time in a year we’ve felt hopeful about this.
For those of you who are scratching your heads, Karen fell 13 months ago and has had persistent lower back pain ever since.
Other good news: looks like we’ll be selling our “investment home” down in California. Maybe then we’ll have enough money to fix our leaks here, and put on a new roof, and all the other projects we haven’t had cash for. Who knows, maybe we’ll even be able to take a real vacation!
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Okay, time to clean the ferret cage and the kitty litter box. Wish me luck.
D.
I started watching that vid, thinking, what?
Then the joke revealed itself and I about died.
IPMBIABFY
and
IPN
and
EOHBTT
More on mystery acronyms later …
Erf!
Heh. Box in a Box is possibly funnier than the original.
Erin, IPMBIABFY = I peed myself but I am begging for you? Oh, I hope so! WTGP?
Yeah, those acronyms are all a mystery to me.
DN, what do you mean, possibly? I think “Box in a Box” is way funnier than “Dick in a Box”. And the music is tons better, too.
When we were watching the vid on Olbermann the other night, I told my family, straight-faced, “Wow. She put her box. In a box. For me. No woman has ever done that for me before.”
The groans shook the windows, I’m sure.
meh. she’s a good singer, but i didnt really find the vid that funny.
my favorite acronyms are the simple ones. lol, jk, rofl, or roffle, or rotflmfao. hehe.
talk to you tonight, hopefully!
Great news on Karen and the house.
IPMBIABFY-I put my box in a box for you.
IPN-I’m posting naked.
EOHBTT-Erin O’Brien has big ta tas.
Sometimes my assholiness surprises even me.
YCTYBOOTBATB
You can take your box out of that box any time, baby 😉