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Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.

Tuesday, 18 October 2005

Well, at least they're honest about it. I just received a piece of spam plugging Russian penny stocks from something signing itself as Alden Hightower. The subject line: "Fwd:courteous swindle".

posted: 9:02:19 PM  

Debrett's decodes those post-nominal initials used as terms of honor in Britain (VC, OBE, etc.) and gives the correct order in which they should be used to address someone.

(Thanks to things magazine.)

posted: 1:24:54 PM  




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