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[tree_and_leaf]

For the first time in ages, I've had spam in my gmail account. It read:

"Your anaconda is set to ravage the virginal beauties"

I LOLd (though even more at the targeted ads earnestly offering me National Geographic snake videos or advising me where I could buy a slow worm†)

† Though aren't they on the Red List? Should I in fact, be phoning the police?

ETA: Bugger. My Oyster card appears to have been cancelled, because I didn't respond to the confirm auto-top-up message. Because, for once, the university webmail put something in a spam folder. Incorrectly, naturally. (Though honestly, TFL, sending out messages with five attachments is just silly...)

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[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Slow worms, according to the BBC Wildlife site, "are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 from being killed, injured or sold and are less common than they used to be." So, yes, this is illegal in the UK...

...and Google targeted ads can indeed be touchingly earnest, or just annoying when one rants about some commodity or fashion one dislikes and a sidebar appears pushing the offending product or trend at one from many different vendors...

[fpb.livejournal.com]

You want hilarious? Every anti-jihad site I ever visited is regularly decorated with more than one ad for Muslim singles or Muslim online fashion retail.

[tree_and_leaf]

Oh dear. Though at least I can see how that would happen. The comments for that snippet of AU Narnian fic I posted two days ago have all had Islamic fashion ads attached, and I really cannot see how that would happen at all.

[tree_and_leaf]

Hum. I thought as much. If the ad pops up again, I think I'll forward the link to the relevant authorities... I like slow worms.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I'd never seen one before until I saw the pictures on the BBC site - their faces look very docile, compared to those of snakes.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

This is something I have learned the hard way: always look into your spam folder, and never delete it without knowing what you are deleting. Damn.

(I did not receive updates from one press service I subscribed to, nor from LJ, for two years straight, because for some reason my Yahoo account had registered their addresses as spam.)

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes; I shall have to be more careful about that, though, of course, ninety-nine times out of one hundred there won't be anything in there other than actual spam....

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Oh, quite. It's the one hundredth time you have to worry about, though.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I bought an Oyster card over the counter and tried to register it online later. The system at stations still doesn't regard it as a registered card, though I can top up online. I didn't ask for automatic reminders, however; perhaps it's just as well.

My postilion is about to ravage an anaconda

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Your anaconda is set to ravage the virginal beauties

I don't know - this sounds like a language exercise designed to test one's handling of verbs of intention, differentiating 'beauty' = person from 'beauty' = abstraction, clarifying understanding of adj/noun agreement, indicating your (sing or pl?) etc.

Or possibly something from English As She Is Spoke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_As_She_Is_Spoke).

Re: My postilion is about to ravage an anaconda

[tree_and_leaf]

Heh. I didn't know 'English as she is spoke' was serious!

I did, however, come across extracts of a phrasebook which genuinely did detail unpleasant things happening to the postillion (though no anacondas).

[overconvergent.livejournal.com]

Clearly you should keep better control of your reptilian pets ...

[tree_and_leaf]

It's a shame I don't speak parseltoungue, really.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Just ask the gentleman in your icon. If he does not, nobody does!

[tree_and_leaf]

Fluent in it, I don't doubt - his toungue probably is forked...