The New Swiss Army Knife

We all know what Swiss Army Knives are, and how useful they can be. Carrying a swiss army knife means carrying an array of tools, from knives, scissors, ballpoints, tweezers, magnifying glasses and a couple of other things. But what happens when you add a USB flash drive to your Swiss Army Knife ? You get this :

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The Swiss Memory USB !

This beauty is a result of the marriage of technology, practicality and design. It puts together four important tools :

• USB Flash Drive
• Ball Point Pen
• A Knife
• LED light

This knife comes with a USB cable, and weighs only 33g. The USB Flash Drive is detachable, and a regular model also has a scissor and a file with screwdriver.

This one goes straight into my wishlist ;)

Do you 'really' want fries with that ?

"Do you want fries with that?"

Ever heard that phrase before?
I'm sure you have.
And probably in popular burger joints around the world.

One such burger joint, amongst the most popular in the world, has been going through something of a downsize in recent times. Sometime back there was a case posed against it for using beef in french fries which caused a lot of issues with the Indian community as beef is 'the forbidden' meat amongst Hindus. Hindus were pissed. And the joint was was sued.

"They deceived the public about beef flavorings in their "vegetarian fries." They got caught. They were sued. They settled in court."

The end result being :

"They made no changes in their fries, which are still beef-flavoring saturated. Sure, the oil is vegetable. But make no mistake about it. There is meat in those luscious Golden Arches french fries."

For the full article click here.

Well, I'm not too much on the 'no beef' scene...to each his own, I suppose.
But my experience with the same burger joint in Malaysia's Genting Highlands definitely shook my faith in the one of the world's most popular eating joints and especially in their "luscious Golden Arches french fries."

Here's what I saw :

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There was a layer of fungus on my friggin fry!!

I mean c'mon man...I like mushrooms but this is ridiculous!

So people...please check your fries before putting them in your mouth.
There may be more going in there.

Cheerio!!
Comix...

The Princess Replies

Read the previous post first, in case you haven't read it.

Okay, so after sending that junk reply back to the "princess", I thought that she'll be smart enough not to reply back. The great thing about these scammers are that they're so stupid and greedy they'll believe anything you say to wipe your back account clean.

So I opened up my inbox and I was surprised to see a reply from the princess. Here it goes :

from princess mariam
subject Hello my dear Sameer Puri,

Hello my dear Sameer Puri,

How are you today? I hope all is ok. I am very glad to receive your response towards my investment proposal to you,I am believing God to grant me my pursuance to see this money transfered into your account which I believe will be secured in your hand. Since my father died,my father's kinsmen are trying all they can to revert this money into their own private account because my only brother is still tender and my mother died when she was giving birth of my only brother idris.

I am the only grown up person in my family that can handle this because I am 25 years old and I am in my third year in the university.

In a brief introduction of myself,I am Princess Mariam Diarra,the only daughter of late King Abou Diarra the traditional ruler of Kaolack kingdom in eastern part of Senegal,I am 25 years old and I am still in the university. my father's palace is located at no 18 to 21 Emefoire avenue Kaolack.I believe that the above introduction will be enough for you to have a total confidence in me .

In other for me to introduce you to the finance firm as my foreign next of kin in which this money will be transfered to his account,I want you to send the below information to me so that I will send it to the finance firm.

(1) YOUR FULL NAME AND RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
(2) YOUR PHONE AND FAX NUMBER
(3) YOUR OCCUPATION
(4) YOUR AGE
(5) YOUR PHOTOGRAPH


I assure you that this will be successful if only you can be truthful to me and work towards my intrustructions and directives. I will be coming to your country immediately this money get into your account for disbursement on agreed ratio.While you will equally help me to invest my own share of the money in your country.

I attached my pics for you but please do not expose my pic to any body,remember that I am a princess and I am very popular in my country and I will not like to be exposed please i need to be protected and the princess must be protected.

Meanwhile i will like you to call me imediately you receive this mail so that we can talk heart to heart with this number +221-2000162 please call me imediately you recieve this mail so that i will know that you reccieve it.now am preparing to go for lectures.

I will send the finance firm contact to you when you send all the requested informations hoping that you will not betray the trust that I repose on you.
I am waiting for your Reply.

Remain blessed
Princess Mariam

And attached were these pictures of Princess Mariam :

(similiar to the primate?)

After looking at those pictures my mouth started foaming and as I thought, why didn't the Queen get this piece of shit aborted ?

I pondered, whether I could handle more of this Princess Mariam, and I decided to send her (/him?) another reply :

Hello Princess Mariam,

Please note that you've got my name wrong. Its "Ben Dover", just as I signed off my last email to you. Anyways, getting back to our business. Your sense of understanding and command over language satisfies me and I'm sure I can trust you. But today was a bad day for me. A tree fell on my car and I broke my mobile phone. I really cannot afford a new phone now. And I'm having mouth ulcers (very painful!).

If you could help me out with my mouth ulcers I'll be really happy and willing to go ahead with this cool deal of yours. Boy I can't wait for those armoured trucks lining in front of my shack and unloading those bundles of money !

Oh, before I forget, let me mention that you indeed are, very beautiful, and definitely look like a princess. I was wondering whose eyes those are, staring at you, in the second picture ! Are those the eyes of your evil countrymen who want to snatch away those dollars of yours ? Oh and please Princess Mariam, please send me a couple of more pictures of yours, I've really developed a liking towards you and I start salivating when I see your picture. Today I printed one of your pictures and I was staring at it and believe me, I was salivating so much I ended up soaking your picture.

I'll send you my information as soon as you send me more pictures of you. I feel like singing that song, you know, by that artist who starts stripping in his songs...you know, "You're Beautiful".

Waiting eagerly for your reply

Ben Dover
(CEO, Pirates Inc.)

After that reply, I'm sure I won't be bothered by the princess again. Or am I wrong ? Let's wait and watch ;)