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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Somebody pinched it, and what I say is, them as pinched it done her in #178181 07/16/08 12:10 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory A Alex Williams OP Pooh-Bah OP Alex Williams Pooh-Bah A Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory By now the phenomenon of the Nigerian email spammer is old hat, and those emails that make it through my filter typically go straight into the trash. I opened one this morning -- from Hong Kong rather than Nigeria as it turns out -- for giggles and was not disappointed. The attempt at affecting a business-like tone remnds me of the scene from "My Fair Lady" when Prof Higgins takes his protege to the Ascot Opening Day: FROM: Mr.Patrick K. W. Chan (Executive Director & Chief financial Officer) Hang Seng Bank Limited 83 Des Voeux Road, Central Hong Kong SAR FOR YOUR ATTENTION It is understandable that you might be a little bit apprehensive because you do not know me but I have a lucrative business proposal of mutual interest to share with you. I got your reference in my search for someone who suits my proposed business relationship. I am Mr. Patrick K. W. Chan Executive Director & Chief financial Officer of Hang Seng Bank Ltd. I have an obscured business suggestion for you. I will need you to assist me in executing a business project from Hong Kong to your country. It involves the transfer of a large sum of money. Everything concerning this transaction shall be legally done without hitch. Please endeavour to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this issue. Once the funds have been successfully transferred into your account, we shall share in the ratio to be agreed by both of us. I will prefer you reach me on my private email address below (patkwchan57@yahoo.com.hk) and finally after that I shall furnish you with more information’s about this operation. Please if you are not interested delete this email and do not hunt me because I am putting my career and the life of my family at stake with this venture. Although nothing ventured is nothing gained. Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated. Kind Regards, Mr. Patrick Chan Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter But I say... Alex Williams #178186 07/17/08 12:41 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,533 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,533 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA ...them as knowed her would have done her in for a hatpin, let alone a hat! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: But I say... wofahulicodoc #178188 07/17/08 12:28 PM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague They all thought she was dead, but my father, he kept ladling gin down her throat...Then she come to so sudden she bit the bowl off the spoon. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter for the young and the young-at-heart BranShea #178190 07/17/08 01:07 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,533 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,533 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA For those of you too young ever to have enjoyed My Fair Lady fer real, here's the scene in its entirety: [from http://plays.about.com/od/oneactplaysandscenes/a/pygmalion04.htm ] "Comedic Female Scene from Shaw's "Pygmalion" Eliza Doolittle Shines! By Wade Bradford, About.com George Bernard Shaw wrote many plays with amusing scenes, but this one from Pygmalion is one of his more hysterical -- if the performers are up to the task, that is. In perhaps the funniest scene of the play, Liza has been trained how to speak the “Queen’s English.” Although she pronounces things perfectly, she still chooses “lower class” words. Here, she talks with two older women: LIZA: (darkly) My aunt died of influenza: so they said. MRS. EYNSFORD HILL: (clicks her tongue sympathetically)!!! LIZA: (in the same tragic tone) But it's my belief they done the old woman in. MRS. HIGGINS: (puzzled) Done her in? LIZA: Y-e-e-e-es, Lord love you! Why should she die of influenza? She come through diphtheria right enough the year before. I saw her with my own eyes. Fairly blue with it, she was. They all thought she was dead; but my father he kept ladling gin down her throat til she came to so sudden that she bit the bowl off the spoon. MRS. EYNSFORD HILL: (startled) Dear me! LIZA: (piling up the indictment) What call would a woman with that strength in her have to die of influenza? What become of her new straw hat that should have come to me? Somebody pinched it; and what I say is, them as pinched it done her in. MRS. EYNSFORD HILL: What does doing her in mean? HIGGINS: (hastily) Oh, that's the new small talk. To do a person in means to kill them. MRS. EYNSFORD HILL: (to Eliza, horrified) You surely don't believe that your aunt was killed? LIZA: Do I not! Them she lived with would have killed her for a hat-pin, let alone a hat. MRS. EYNSFORD HILL: But it can't have been right for your father to pour spirits down her throat like that. It might have killed her. LIZA: Not her. Gin was mother's milk to her. Besides, he'd poured so much down his own throat that he knew the good of it. MRS. EYNSFORD HILL: Do you mean that he drank? LIZA: Drank! My word! Something chronic. MRS. EYNSFORD HILL: How dreadful for you! LIZA: Not a bit. It never did him no harm what I could see. But then he did not keep it up regular. (Cheerfully) On the burst, as you might say, from time to time. And always more agreeable when he had a drop in. When he was out of work, my mother used to give him fourpence and tell him to go out and not come back until he'd drunk himself cheerful and loving-like. There's lots of women has to make their husbands drunk to make them fit to live with. (Now quite at her ease) You see, it's like this. If a man has a bit of a conscience, it always takes him when he's sober; and then it makes him low-spirited. A drop of booze just takes that off and makes him happy. (To Freddy, who is in convulsions of suppressed laughter) Here! what are you sniggering at? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: for the young and the young-at-heart wofahulicodoc #178445 07/30/08 05:07 PM Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 279 Ireland GallantTed enthusiast GallantTed enthusiast Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 279 Ireland  Quote: Please endeavour to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this issue. Howya Alex I'll tell ya, it's the last bloomen time I'll be endeveren ta invite ya fer ta share in me secret businness adventures. Just remember this, Buster - Him what spams, does. Him what cannot breaches confidinces. Be seein ya GT Last edited by GallantTed; 07/30/08 05:16 PM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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