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Camilla (or Shirley or Richard), We Hardly Knew Ye
The only things I post on Twitter are pictures and commentary about my coin collection and discussions with other collectors about their pictures and commentary about their coin collections. Exciting stuff.
Occasionally, I’ll get a follower who has a female name and a picture of a cute girl as an icon. I’ll look at the profile and previous tweets and there is no mention of numismatics. The tweets are all selfies of the icon girl. I used to hit follow on anyone who would follow me, but not on any of these. When I did follow them, I’d immediately get a DM offering to sell porn and/or crypto.
So, today, this person followed my Twitter:
Nothing about coin collecting, but no pictures of cute girls or paeans to crypto either. Most of the tweets are insipid quotes like the one above, or pictures of scenic places and food. What the hey, I’ll go ahead and follow her (or him).
And I immediately got a DM, with another banal aphorism. Again, I just post about coins on Twitter. So I replied with this:
That got the conversation going:
I’m not really from Illinois or Kentucky, but Shirley, or Camilla (or maybe Richard?) doesn’t need to know that.
Well, that did it! Shirley, or Richard, or Camilla apparently doesn’t appreciate classic sculpture, is turned off by nude chimera, or is repulsed by Danish transit tokens:
Oh, well. It was fun while it lasted. Best of luck to you, Camilla (or Richard or Shirley).
I’ve encountered a few Facebook accounts that I believe were hijacked from someone who either died or maybe just got their password hacked – or both – with names that sounded like grizzly men yet were presenting photos of attractive women.
I never interact with them.
Yes, interacting with undead account hackers can be dangerous.
Saw this today:
Is your real name Manti Te’o?
A name I haven’t seen in years and this is the second time today. Earlier the Ruthless Podcast was talking about the news that Tim Scott has a girlfriend but the campaign staff isn’t letting the press talk to her. As the discussion veered into “is she real?” territory, Manti Te’o came up.
Also makes me think of Howard Sprague from The Andy Griffith Show. Why can’t he find himself a nice woman?