My spam folder just got its first “my boss died in the Haiti earthquake and I need a partner to help me get his money out of the country” scam letter. In an odd bit of honesty, the fractured English includes the following among the list of items you must include in your reply:

A valid copy of your identity or passport so that this ransaction can begin immediately.

Emphasis mine. :-)

Official One Piece Oppai Mousepads.

Found at a gas station in Morgan Hill on the way to work this morning:

Update for great justice: “LolNozzle iz inside ur gas tank, breakin pumps”

(apparently from the store window of Asobit Chara City in Akihabara; I don’t know if they sell signs or stickers)

A little something from The Random Recipe Generator:

Butter Crumble

Serves 1
You will need:

• 60g butter
• 70g kidney beans

Instructions:

1. pre-heat the oven to 180 C
2. eat the butter
3. discard the kidney beans
4. bake for 50 minutes and serve hot

All I can do to help is send money, which I have. Fortunately, one of the few things the American government reliably does well is disaster relief.

I’ll refrain from partisan sniping, unless some jackass tries to use this as justification for passing the healthcare bill…

Update: this is what I’m talking about:

...Four large Coast Guard ships—a 210-foot Reliance-class cutter and three 270-foot medium Endurance-class cutters—left Miami today, bound for Haiti....

...A C-130 cargo airplane also flew into Haiti from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater in Florida....

...Next to arrive will be urban rescue teams from Florida, Virginia and California...

...The crew of the Comfort, one of the Navy's two 894-foot-long hospital ships, is now rushing to the ship, ported in Baltimore, to sail for Haiti.

The Navy hospital ship will be joined in Haiti by the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson. The carrier's crew of more than 3000 had been at sea for just hours, leaving Norfolk, Va., for its new home port in San Diego, when the call came to reroute to Haiti. The massive craft can launch helicopters loaded with supplies, make and deliver fresh water and, if need be, augment hospital space by pitching aid tents on its flight deck.

Found in the latest issue of Ansible, whilst hunting for Thoggisms:

George Bowie, Radio Clyde presenter:

"Which famous detective features in the Agatha Christie [sic] novel The Hound of the Baskervilles?"

Contestant:

"Is it Harry Potter?"

Some of the recent subject lines from my spam folder:

Meet and marry a gorgeous Russian queen.
Russian queens are waiting.
I can do for you is - what can not no girl!