{"id":41,"date":"2012-04-05T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/?p=41"},"modified":"2012-04-05T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T00:05:00","slug":"youre-going-to-get-it-anyway-may-as-well-laugh-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/youre-going-to-get-it-anyway-may-as-well-laugh-at-it\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re going to get it anyway, may as well laugh at it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most computer users, I get a lot of unsolicited email. Most of  it is just junk, of no real interest, and gets deleted. I am happy with  my marriage, the size of my penis, and my lack of cheap, under the table  prescription drugs.<\/p>\n<p>But once in a while, some of the stuff is unintentionally hilarious.  I submit the following:<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Sir,<br \/>I am a lady accountant with a bank here in London. There is a fixed <br \/>deposit of \u00a3150,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Fifty Million Pounds <br \/>Starling) made to this bank&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>First of all, I found it amusing that the writer would point out that this is from a <i>lady<\/i> accountant. That&#8217;s like when Rimmer in <i>Red Dwarf<\/i> talks about having &#8220;a woman&#8217;s period.&#8221; The fact you feel you have to say it means it&#8217;s not real.<\/p>\n<p>BUT..the part that broke me up was the &#8220;One Hundred Fifty Million Pound <i>Starling<\/i>&#8221;  I got the image of an enormous songbird sitting atop the London  skyline, uttering a bass &#8220;TWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET&#8221; and leaving the nation&#8217;s  millet supply in tatters.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I found it funny.<\/p>\n<p>Think of the droppings&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most computer users, I get a lot of unsolicited email. Most of it is just junk, of no real interest, and gets deleted. I am happy with my marriage, the size of my penis, and my lack of cheap, under the table prescription drugs. But once in a while, some of the stuff is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-dwarf","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}