Yes, the bed totally fell apart. It was never the same again afterwards. I think we broke something in the middle.
I dunno why, but if they insist on my phone number that is usually enough reason for me to stop registering. I get tons of junk mail and just throw it out. Actually, I figured our recently that my junk mail is more than 80% of my trash. Still, I don’t care if they send me junk. But you CANNOT have my phone number. You ARE NOT welcome to call me. And so I stop registering at that point.
They want to know your gender so when they sell your email to a porn chat spammer, they’ll know whether to pretend to be a random girl or or a random boy wanting to get to know you. 
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to work for me.
[radio announcer]“Next time, try the DUX bed…”[/radio announcer]
One of the guys upstairs has this coffee table that’s completely shattered after…
wait should I have actually read the OP before commenting in this thread? :smack:
I usually use January 1, 1900 (or the earliest year they allow).
For the rest, if it’s a site asking for personal info for no reason, they get:
John Q. Fakename
123 Fake St
Anytown, [random state] 12345
John Q. Fakename is, of course, male.
This may be historically TMI, but… Harry and Bess Truman broke a bed due to, um, er, marital overexuberance when they were living in Blair House. David McCullough tells the story in his terrific bio Truman. Bess, very embarrassed, had to ask the Blair House staff to arrange for a new bed to be brought in.
[Quagmire] Gigity gigity [/Quagmire]
Damit!
wow… almost 30 replies to this thread, and despite the title, the phrase “death by snoo-snoo” has yet to appear.
odd, that.
but having actually read the thread, add me to the list of people who will just obviously & completely lie when asked to fill in seemingly pointless (or blatant info-farming) requests for private data.
i mean, there may well be (or have been) a woman named “omigoshi shatmiselph” born in 1912 at walla walla, washington; or a man named “holso biggit kannabefiit” born in 1969 at head-smashed-in buffalo jump, alberta… but i sure as shit ain’t getting their junk mail.
I always just lie. I don’t think I’ve ever used real information for registering unless it was required for shipping or a financial transaction. Any public profiles I have are erroneous. My public information at Amazon isn’t real, though the private stuff on Amazon’s back end is since it has to be right for shipping and paying for stuff.
I actually wouldn’t mind providing demographic information for most sites if they explained what they were using it for, and if they didn’t ask for specific crap like address and phone number. They’d be a lot more likely to get accurate information from people if they weren’t so intrusive, IMO. If the site doesn’t take 999-999-9999 as a phone number because they check that against the zip code (e.g. 90210), then I might bother with tweaking it until the site takes it (area code there is 310, sometimes 310-999-9999 does it). Depends on whether it’s important enough for me to want access or not.
I have a couple of standard fake names I use, and Yahoo makes it easy to set up alternate email addresses that get delivered to your inbox without the sender knowing the real email address. If I start getting spam mail I can usually figure out who sold my info. I don’t usually even use my main Yahoo address since I pay for POP access for that. Instead, I give out the secondary one. Sure enough, I get significantly more spam to that address than my main one.
The only zip code I happen to know offhand is 90210. From the show, of course. There are a lot of websites that require entry of zipcodes. I use 90210 a lot. I’d have to guess that anyone trolling through website info must do a lot of eliminations of data for that particular zip code.