Humor: May 2013 Archives
Here's some of the history behind the Nigerian Prince email scam. Of course, there's nothing new under the sun.
CONAN: So you would not be surprised if evidence turned up of some ancient letter, back to the Roman days: We escaped with some Gaulish treasure before Caesar crush us, and we just need a little help.BRUNTON: Yes, absolutely. I mean, honestly, at this point I would not be surprised to find like cave paintings.
(LAUGHTER)
BRUNTON: You know, like, we have a lot of extra obsidian, but we had to leave it in a cave and...
Don't forget about the Nigerian scammer who was scammed in return and tricked into writing out by hand 293 pages of Harry Potter as part of a "research project".
Via John Avlon who uses the neologism to describe the collection of scandals enveloping Barack Obama: scandalabra.
The latest non-Watergate to be labelled its second coming is actually a combination of three separate scandals afflicting the Barack Obama administration.The collective weight of this scandalabra threatens to derail the president's ambitious legislative agenda, dragging him to premature lame duck status. But it doesn't represent outright criminality emanating from the Oval Office or promise to provoke a constitutional crisis, however fervently Obama's critics might wish it.
