VirusHead - Mutating bits of contagious discourse, because language is a virus.

I have been had. I am furious, but that’s nothing next to what I am fully expecting to receive from friends, family, and professional colleagues. ARRRGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Please disregard any invitation from Quechup - from me or anyone else.
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The people who respond to these propositions are easy marks for these con games. What I like about the Salon article is that the focus is on the language. Douglas Cruickshank writes that he has fallen for these emails, “not for the scam part, but for the writing, the plots (fragmented as they are), the characters…