Hornswaggler | The culture, the humor, a bit of the sports, not so much the politics, and the workplace distraction
Hornswaggle is an alternate spelling of
hornswoggle, an archaic word that means to bamboozle or hoodwink. I take my
pronunciation from the late Harvey Korman in "Blazing Saddles" --
"I want rustlers, cutthroats, murderers,
bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits,
vipers, snipers, conmen, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers,
buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswagglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train
robbers, bank robbers, ass kickers, shit kickers and Methodists!"
I gotsta share what may be my favorite example of spam email ever received by myself. I've gotten it numerous times. On this occasion the subject line was merely a lower-case "hey," not something as devious as "re: our discussion." Wait a second, I don't remember having a discussion with a ... Hans at ... art123475@yahoo.com?! Hmmm. Well, I'd better reply to this friend of mine anyway, just to make sure. Nor was it something romantic like "Horny Teen Sluts." The most perfidious are those with a subject line such as, "re: your business proposal," which then lead into a message extoling bestiality porn..
At any rate, what follows in quotes is the text of the message:
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down.
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Yes, you too can earn the admiration of all by doing nothing, by enrolling in a program for which no one is turned down! That is a brilliant contradiction in terms. This is the actual phone number listed in the email: 713-866-8869. Call now if you want to jump-start your future!
