Okay, it’s actually scam-baiting season for Malleus, Incus, Stapes!, but it does involve unicorns. Sort of.
There are a lot of people out there with adorable Yorkies/bulldogs/teacup whatevers who sadly have to give their beloved pets away. For a small shipping fee, of course. Standard puppy scam, yadda yadda yadda.
So anyway, I like to email them and ask if they have any unicorns. It’s amazing, the way these people always have just the mythological creature I’m looking for. My longest unicorn bait lasted three months, and garnered a quote that still makes me laugh: “why is it that you dont believed that the unicorn is avaialabe”.
I’ve just sent out my standard unicorn letter to a bunch of people. Plus, I’ve got this dying orphan with a trunkbox and I’m trying to raise money for her via pegasus stud fees… Anyway, if I’m not making any sense here, it’s because it’s late and I should be in bed by now. In the morning, I’ll see how many responses I get.
First off, good luck – I’ll be looking forward to hearing about the results.
Now then, hijack time: I clicked on the first link, and was happy to find myself at worth1000.com. I love that site, but hadn’t been there for awhile. As I was scanning through the images, I found one showing something that always irrationally irked me – a unicorn/pegasus.
“Damnit,” I thought, “Don’t people know they’re two separate mythological beasts? I mean, what do they think this is? A pegacorn? A unisus?”
Waitaminute…a “unisus”? Man, that’s awfully close to “Unisys”, the computing company. Where did they get their name from?
One googling later: “‘Unisys’ was one of 31,000 names submitted in a worldwide employee contest with a cash prize of $5,000”
Well, ok, but what’s it mean?
“…the new name for the $10 billion company is derived from three words – united, information, systems”
Yeah, sure, pull the other one. The guy who submitted it snagged the name from his seven-year-old daughter’s drawings, and I won’t hear any other explanation.
They’re clearly not paying attention. All the replies I’ve gotten have been along the lines of “Dear Melanie, I’m happy to hear that you’re interested in my puppy, blah blah blah…”
I’m going to go have some words.
On a different note, I’m having a lot of fun with a guy who calls himself Dicks0n Brain. Naturally, I call him Dick for short.