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Old 06-17-2006, 09:54 AM
brickbacon brickbacon is offline
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Creepy or Endearing? (Spybot Guy)

I am sure most of you are familiar with the program Spybot. Well, if you go to the FAQ #29 (vague references are also found in the licensing agreement), you can view the passage copied below. It is as follows:

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Originally Posted by Spybot Guy
Who is the most wonderful girl on earth? FAQ #029

Many people have guessed that she is my girlfriend. To my own bad luck, that is not true. But while she does not return my feelings of love, we still share a really wonderful and great friendship, and I am very very proud and lucky and thankful to be allowed to call her a friend. A friend who is warmer, more kindly, more forgiving, a friend to whom I feel closer to than any other. Even as "only" a friend (where "only" is quite the wrong word), Sandra Klass earns the title Most Wonderful Girl On Earth more than any other person on this planet. Dear Sandra, I love you, and your friendship means all the world to me!
So the creator of Spybot has written a love declaration into the program. If you were Sandra Klass, would you be honored or horrified?
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Old 06-17-2006, 10:06 AM
EddyTeddyFreddy EddyTeddyFreddy is offline
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My reaction would depend on what the real-life relationship was.
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Old 06-17-2006, 10:21 AM
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I'd be oggified he used my real name. This programmer has some serious common sense and boundary isses. Good program though.
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Old 06-17-2006, 11:53 AM
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Eeeeeeeee!!!!!

Creeptastico.

Declarations of that magnitude about someone one isn't a) boning or b) trying to bone? It's simply not done.
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Old 06-17-2006, 03:38 PM
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Yeah he's totally in creepsburgh. Somewhere down the line that guy is gonna be cringing about that FAQ.
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Old 06-17-2006, 07:58 PM
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Wow, Daniel Johnston wrote Spybot?
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Old 06-18-2006, 09:40 AM
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Originally Posted by brickbacon
...If you were Sandra Klass, would you be honored or horrified?
Nervous, very nervous, it is "Spybot - Search & Destroy" !

CMC fnord!
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