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Belgravian Thu 31-May-18 11:04:04

On my Freecycle group I was alarmed by one person's email address.

I am English but live in Wales.

The offending email address was WelshTheRapist @ .......... (I've used capital letters to show you how I read it).

I decided to trot out an email reply saying that I didn't want them to have my item because of the awful email name and was really quite disgusted.

Thank goodness I didn't press send because in the split second before pressing send I realised they were actually -

WelshTherapist @......

blushgrin

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Anniebach Thu 31-May-18 14:03:53

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Squiffy Thu 31-May-18 14:08:01

LOL grin

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ninathenana Thu 31-May-18 14:41:09

grin

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sodapop Thu 31-May-18 15:02:18

Made me chuckle too ?

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DanniRae Thu 31-May-18 15:58:40

HaHagringrin!!

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Willow500 Thu 31-May-18 19:08:30

LoL grin

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silvertone Sat 08-Sep-18 15:18:50

I read once that an overseas branch of a company got called GEN Italia.

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Grannybags Sat 08-Sep-18 16:32:58

grin

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annep Fri 07-Dec-18 00:47:29

??

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stree Mon 10-Dec-18 15:46:24

I used to work in IT in the 80s.
IBM had a computer maintenance side called IBM Care.
A Chinese company tried to muscle in, a very big company called Wang.
They had headline ads in the IT press for Wang Care.
We used to ring them just to hear the call answer script.

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Grannyknot Mon 10-Dec-18 15:53:22

Stree I had a boyfriend for a while who worked for Wang. He should have worked for Wang Care...!

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ayse Mon 10-Dec-18 16:28:33

grin LOL

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stree Mon 10-Dec-18 18:00:26

He wasn`t "The One" then?

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Grannyknot Mon 10-Dec-18 20:58:49

He was ... the one who was dumped grin

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