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    Perhaps I've missed something, but I can't see a topic collecting all those gruesome pop songs featuring death.

     

    To start the ball rolling, here's murderer R. Dean Taylor on the run in 1970 (and probably not surviving the hail of gunfire at the end).

     

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    Some mystery in your past? Some ancestor upset you? Want to bring them back to life so that you could kill them?

     

    Oh, lots of mysteries.

     

    I would like to ask GG Grandpa where he pissed off to for 30 years, and ask GG Grandma if she knew he wasn't actually dead when she married someone else.

     

    I would like to ask another GG Grandpa why he said his father's name was John on his first two marriages, when on his third marriage he said it was William.

     

    I would like to talk to Grandad's naughty auntie whose early life of crime is well documented in the local newspapers, only for her to vanish without trace.

     

    And lots more. No, they haven't upset me, they give me hours of entertainment.

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    Could these people know your email address, as you can search on Facebook by email rather than name?

    Ugh, I didn't know that! I will have to check which one I used, but I doubt if they would all have it anyway. For one thing, I've never emailed the ex-colleague, it's a Christmas-cards-only sort of thing.

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    This has really creeped me out.

     

    I've never had a Facebook page, but a couple of years ago we created accounts for our dogs, just for a laugh. My dog's page, apart from her sharing my surname (not a particularly uncommon name), had no information about me whatsoever, and no reference to where we live. She only ever had two human friends and a couple of other dogs known to us. Eventually I deactivated the account, as complete strangers kept asking to be friends and it got a bit tiresome (they probably thought it was a human of the same name).

     

    Now someone has created a community page for the place where I live, and I wanted to have a gander at it. So I resurrected the dog's account, purely so I could have a look. And up came a list of people Facebook had collected that they "thought I might know", ie the dog might know .... they include a cousin of mine and her OH (who don't and never have shared my surname), they live a long way away and don't know anyone I know outside our family; a person who I worked with long, long ago, who now lives in another country and again, knows no one who would have been likely to search for or find the dog page; and various locals. Some of the locals would know the dog's name, but my cousin wouldn't, nor the old colleague. And none of them know the non-locals that have been dredged up.

     

    So how the hell has Facebook managed to connect all these people together? I find it very sinister and rather worrying.

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    I am now getting fuckers knocking on my door to try and sell me Gas/Electricity packages and the like! :dead3:

    The other day I was walking through a shopping precinct, just on my way from A to B, wrapped up in my own little world as I mentally ticked off the things I needed to do.

     

    When I was accosted by a geezer trying to sell me Gas/Electricity packages or somesuch.

    "No thanks," I said.

    "OK," he said.

    No problem.

     

    but as I walked on, his colleague shouted after me:

    "Never mind, it's only Monday. You've got the rest of the week to smile."

    I continued for a few paces, then I thought, no, I'm not standing for that. so I stopped. Turned. Walked very slooooowly back with my gaze fixed on him.

     

    In a low and menacing tone, I said

    "What did you say?"

    Backtracking furiously, he stammered something incoherent " I was just ... er, I only, er ...."

    "You don't know me, do you?" I continued.

    "Er ... no."

    "You know nothing of me or my circumstances, or those of any members of my family, do you?"

    "Er, no." (swallowed nervously) "I apologise."

    With a pointed look at the company name on their display, I said, "Just think before opening your gob then."

     

    Actually (thankfully) there was nothing majorly wrong in my life, but arseholes like him aren't to know, are they.

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    Just to be pedantic, it says on my team that my best performance was 138th in 2007 - I actually MULLERED that position last year by hitting the dizzy heights of 101st. Do keep up :)

     

    Likewise, I believe I finished just outside the top 20 last year .... don't expect to do as well this time so it will be nice to see that achievement marked.

     

    But jolly well done for getting it all on so quick.

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