The Off Topic Topic

[Caliga]

Maybe they were thinking of Uncle Luke?



He's probably not Scottish.

[Syt]

Or "Campbell" to be Scottish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_%28surname%29

Campbell is primarily a Scottish family name of Gaelic origins, although a small number of branches have origins from anglicisation of various Irish family names.[3]

In Scotland, the name itself derives from two Scottish Gaelic words. "Cam" and "Béal" meaning "Crooked mouth" or "wry-mouthed", originally a nickname which over time became used as a surname.

[Sheilbh]

And the Campbells of Glencoe.

[garbon]

Yahoo news had an article about bronies and I clicked on it for the vicious comments. It appears someone heard a pony call and all the most recent comments are from people supporting them.

[Grey Fox]

Campbell is as Scottish as they come.

Slack off at work.

Days when I have FA to do at work actually make me more tired since the day seems to take longer :p

I don't know how to help you anymore.

b12 supplement?

[Eddie Teach]

If he has nothing to do at work, why is he staying til 9? 

[Syt]

If he has nothing to do at work, why is he staying til 9? 

Some of us have fixed office hours.

[Eddie Teach]

If your office expects twelve hour days with no work to do, something is very wrong. Unless you're a guard. 

[garbon]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/dorieanstevenson/15-highly-questionable-pieces-of-vintage-dating-advice

I like this old dating advice that Buzzfeed pulled.

[ulmont]

I just got an email thanking me for registering on Norfolk Southern's careers site.  Only problem is, I didn't.

I have a generic [email protected] email account.  I get misdirected email all the time, apparently because people sign up for all kinds of things (wine orders, bicycle orders), and don't know what the fuck their email address is.

[Caliga]

I have a very uncommon last name but still get shit all the time for people who have the same surname.  I know some of them already, and some of them I've come to know over time because it happens so much.  There's a guy with the same exact name as me who lives outside of Knoxville who I've talked to quite a bit about our shared ancestry, etc. ... but every few months he still sends shit to my email address by mistake.

[Capetan Mihali]

I've got a Gmail doppelganger whose first name is the same and whose last name is one character off from mine, mine being the more common version.  Weirdly, we were both in Knoxville at the same time, he as a lecturer at the Univ of Tenn and me as a public defender intern; so when I first got mail for him relating to Knoxville things I didn't even catch that it wasn't for me. 

But then I got emails from random students submitting things or asking questions, so I found him online and, with apologies for it being weird, starting forwarding him the emails that I guessed were intended for him, which I've continued to get off-and-on for a few years now.  He was grateful.  Eventually he got one intended for me from Blue Cross Blue Shield about my coverage, and forwarded it my way.

A little while back, I got an email asking my help for proofreading an English document in a Balkan country, mentioning my credentials as an academic and native English speaker, and offering to pay me a fairly small sum.  I had to think it was some kind of scam, but it was truly a weird one.  I looked up the organization and the sender and it all seemed legit.  So eventually I thought maybe it's for him, and forwarded it along.  He told me that, yeah, he'd moved to Bosnia, and sorry for the emails I was getting.

So we've actually come to know each other eerily well in this strange way...

[PDH]

His name is Capetan Mehali?

[frunk]

I was recently invited to a bachelorette party, and I apparently forgot about a couple Caribbean vacations.

[Capetan Mihali]

His name is Capetan Mehali?

And if Wyoming gets old, maybe I can work it out with him for you to get a spot teaching over there, hmm?