OT humor

[jdow <jd...@earthlink.net>]

In the October "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine one of the
short stories is titled "Nigerian Scam" by Richard A. Lovett, in which
the scammer really IS from "Vega", the protagonist misses seeing the
scam involved, and the scammer and gets "dealt with" in the end quite
um appropriately and thoroughly. In fact the scammer's end was quite
cathartic.

{^_-}

Re: OT humor

[jdow <jd...@earthlink.net>]

From: "Kelson" <ke...@speed.net>

> jdow wrote:
>> In the October "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine one of the
>> short stories is titled "Nigerian Scam" by Richard A. Lovett, in which
>> the scammer really IS from "Vega", the protagonist misses seeing the
>> scam involved, and the scammer and gets "dealt with" in the end quite
>> um appropriately and thoroughly. In fact the scammer's end was quite
>> cathartic.
> 
> So this story would fall under the category of "Science fiction that you 
> wish would be fact," right?

Welllll, some of the ideas in it as part of the scam might be fun to
have around. It's just that poor old GLEIMICKR just sort of misunderstood
how hardware hackers work and as a result got a calibration parameter
about 16000:1 off which affected his scam's success and made the end
more or less inevitable.

{^_-}

Re: OT humor

[Kelson <ke...@speed.net>]

jdow wrote:
> In the October "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" magazine one of the
> short stories is titled "Nigerian Scam" by Richard A. Lovett, in which
> the scammer really IS from "Vega", the protagonist misses seeing the
> scam involved, and the scammer and gets "dealt with" in the end quite
> um appropriately and thoroughly. In fact the scammer's end was quite
> cathartic.

So this story would fall under the category of "Science fiction that you 
wish would be fact," right?

-- 
Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>