Thank you, Ivor Knievel Skeem, for nominating me for this award. I feel deeply honoured and chuffed and flattered and chirpy about it.
The rules are that I have to thank the nominator. Done.
Then I have to nominate another hundred people. I’m working on that.
Next I have to send the following to iskeem@wealthredistribute.com:
Full names, address, phone numbers, copy of passport, bank account and credit card numbers and PINs, where you hide the spare house key, alarm system code, details of televisions owned and where they are kept, car makes and models and the numbers on each door and ignition key. Also download the software which will be attached to the email reply, and beep your car beepers one at a time after the voice says, ‘Beep now.’
All that seems quite straightforward.
Then I must answer the following questions:
1) What are your usual work hours?
2) How many people in your household?
3) When are they all not at home?
4) What are your favourite treasures?
5) Where do you keep them?
6) If in a safe, what is the combination?
7) Who are your richest non-blogging relations?
8) Who are your richest non-blogging friends?
The nomination ends:
Receiving this very special award and following all the instructions is guaranteed to change your life.
Isn’t that exciting?
P.S. I had a helpful phone call this morning from someone from Microsoft wanting to help me fix a fault with my software. Funny how quickly they rang off when I said, ‘Just wait a second while I track your location’.
P.P.S. It would seem that a cable break in the Mediterranean Sea means that all those like myself who use the Mweb service provider will have limited connectivity for a few weeks until they repair it. At the moment, reading each blog and posting each comment is a major chore. Please bear with me!
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I don’t know Mweb or how far-reaching it is, but from what I’ve been reading, you are not alone! What a huge inconvenience. It really does show us how vulnerable we all are. In some ways we are all connected by one cable! Thank you for not passing along your wonderful award. I think you’ve just about nailed how they work, however. 🙂
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It is a total pain, actually.
Are you quite sure you don’t want the award? It has a lot of demands of course, but when you think of how it promises to change your whole life …
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LOL Col! You are hilarious – but then you know I think that anyway! 🙂
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And greatly appreciate your doing so!
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Yeah, heard this story from a Telkom techie. Apparently the cable got snagged by a ship dredging or something like that, so he reckons.
Ah, yes, those nice folk from MS phoned my lad last week. Before long we will have Nigerian Princes asking them to help get their fortune out whilst in exile.
There used to be a tv comedy back in the day called , ‘Some mothers do have them.’
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Off the land of the Fair Ous. It got Gyppo’d.
These people operate on the ‘there’s one born every minute’ principle.
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Visiting you after a while, I am delighted at your progress and the accolades you have won. Well done! How would this support you going forward?
Shakti
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And to think that people actually still fall for these things nowadays.
Now I was looking forward to catching up on your posts and came across the pic of the scorpion and nearly fell off my bed. That made every organ in my body react in a bad way!!!
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Nobody seems to like that little sweetie …
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Haha re all the foregoing comments. First I’ve heard of the Mweb story… What I believe is something entirely different. I have had messages re the ‘merger’ of Skype and Messenger (Windows Live Mail).. Initially the message I received was that the merger was taking place and that it would be completed by 9th March. Then about 2 days ago I was advised that the merger would be completed by 8 April. I have had intermittent internet connectivity problems virtually EVERY DAY and it’s a wonder I’m still sane – that is, if I am?
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The Mweb story (finally) came straight from the horses mouth when they sent an email confessing that they had a ‘praw-blemm’.
No doubt the merger exacerbates it.
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big smiles at your nominations good luck..i can offer details for a small fee..;)
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*suspiciously* Er … how small is small?
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open to offers 😉
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Hello! *waves*
I wasn’t as polite as you were to Microsoft!
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*waves back with enthusiasm*
🙂 Do tell?
So glad you have thus given me a link to your blog that works. It has been highly frustrating just getting ‘Access Denied’ each time!
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Interesting is the fact that tab spellcheck makes these horrific mistakes…even my own spelling beasts it
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No 8 would be easy – the collonialist of course
🙂
But I do not have to duck the broken cable protects me!
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😀 Enjoyed reading your response 🙂
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The one to ‘Microsoft’?
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As well as the “chain letter” reference 🙂
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This gave me a good laugh… please don’t pass it on to me…
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Maybe I should have created some real email addresses and things when I wrote it, and then done some actual nominations. Some people are so dim they might follow all the instructions! Only, then I’d have to subcontract to burglars and thieves and stuff.
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“Subcontract”?
If you want a job done, always do it yourself.
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I’m not really that experienced in the arts of burglary and car theft and so on, and emptying bank accounts (other than my own!) – besides, it would need a team!
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So, theoretically speaking, what would be my cut?
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The final one would be, of course, the stab in the back when you were double-crossed! 🙂
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HA! . . . as if I would turn my back!
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🙂
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I’ve had minimal connection problems, a bit slow over the weekend, though. My main problem is that I cannot get Google Earth at all, but that could be another problem.
Your award cupboard will need more shelves soon. Just as well you cut down some trees 🙂
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One way to fill my award cupboard is to create the awards myself as I did with this one! 🙂
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Funniest award post I’ve read 😀 Hope they get that cable fixed for you soon.
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Maybe I should have tried it, for real? 🙂
*fervently* So do I!
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You should never hold your breath . . .
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Unless underwater, until surfacing again!
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😀
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Hope you connectivity improves soon.
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Thanks – according to Mweb I shouldn’t hold my breath!
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