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Following up on the booking agent and singer, we have the guitar player and entrepreneur.

Jukebox the Ghost’s Tommy Siegel and Citizen Agency’s Chris Messina:

Apparently they have a triplet, Josh Roth.

I love that my airline has a sense of humour:

It’s great that JetBlue lets its people speak in a human voice.

Can you imagine a blog between Ted Stevens and Miss South Carolina?

The Manchester Evening News, a British rag is reporting a lottery scratchcard has been withdrawn from sale “because players couldn’t understand it.”Apparently your average Brit is well-qualified for a job at Verizon:

Tina Farrell, from Levenshulme, called Camelot after failing to win with several cards.The 23-year-old, who said she had left school without a maths GCSE, said: “On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn’t.”I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I’m not having it.”I think Camelot are giving people the wrong impression - the card doesn’t say to look for a colder or warmer temperature, it says to look for a higher or lower number. Six is a lower number than 8. Imagine how many people have been misled.”

Jon Stewart: “So in summation, the bill takes money from cigarettes and gives it to poor sick children.”

George Bush: “That’s why I’m going to veto the bill.”

Following up on an earlier story, George Bush appointed Lauren Caitlin Upton as a foreign policy advisor. (credit: GH)

Tony is a UI engineer. He gets a lot of recruiter spam. Usually it’s related to his skillset.

This time, however, the recruiter was looking for a filesystems engineer.

They had this hilarious exchange:

Recruiter: We’re looking for somebody with 7-10 years of experience writing filesystems.
Me: The only person I know with that level of experience writing filesystems is Hans Reiser.
Recruiter: Have you worked with Hans before? Can you send me his resume?
Me: http://www.idiom.com/~beverly/hans_resume.html
Recruiter: You are too funny! We’re willing to let our developers telecommute but the state penn. wasn’t quite what we had in mind. Thanks for making me smile though :)

This went to myself and five our so others. I think she might be trying to book a gig. I’m really not sure.

Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:15:24 -0500
From: Jane Nicolson <ever_lover22@hotmail.com>
Subject: hello

HELLO.
MY NAME IS LAURA WILSON AND I AM CURRENTLY IN NEED OF A ROOM..
I WILL LIKE TO KNOW THE DETAILS AND AMOUTN OF THE ROOM,
I WILL BE HAPPY IF U CAN EMAL ME BACK SO THAT WE CAN TALK MORE..
PLS KINDLY EMAIL ME TO MY EMAIL BOX  laurawilson399@yahoo.com SO THAT WE CAN TALK MORE.
NOTE I CANT READY UR EMAIL IF U EMAIL HOTMAIL