On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:53:16 +0900, puntspeedchunk
<FAKE@ssAddress.com> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>"Chinese Cardholders Unaffected By Leakage" according to the
>headlines here:
>http://english.people.com.cn/200506/21/eng20050621_191522.html
>
>That's nice.
>
>Gaigins in Japan, OTH... 
>
>Master-Card called and told me that I've been selected as
>one of the lucky 40 million people to have had their credit
>card info stolen by the fine folks that hacked CardSystems
>Solutions, Inc. yesterday and  I win a *NEW* card. It should
>be here in a week to ten days.

Just imagine the scene at the customer service center when the
supervisor walked in and said, "Uhhhh.....You people have to phone 40
million people and piss them off. Here's a list. Hop to it."
>
>First time I ever won anything in my life and I couldn't be
>happier. It doesn't stop there. "It's highly likely" that
>I'm one of the even luckier bunch of 200,000 that had the
>records pertaining to their accounts stolen too.
>
>This is a great day for interweb technology.

Everybody must have gone to lunch and left Brett running the internet
by himself.




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Michael Cash

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Clowns and jokers."

                                Prof. Ernest T. Bass
                                Mount Pilot College