Month: January 2008

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Hoaxes Internet

Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame

I’m starting a new weekly feature here on ‘The Major’s Life Blog’. In the grande tradition of the ‘Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad’, the ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’, and the ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’ I now present to you the ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame’.

It’s where I take a current (and recurring) internet hoax / urban legend / chain letter that keeps appearing within our E-MAIL inboxes, and expose it for what it’s worth. They are forwarded to us quite innocently enough by our friends and relatives, but they are simply not true.

Here’s this week’s edition:

A local South Florida radio station announced earlier this week on their popular morning show that if you don’t hurry up and register your cell phone number with the ‘National Do Not Call Registry‘ by Midnight on the 31ST of January then telemarketers all over the world would have free reign to call you and send you text messages (at your expense) to your cell phone.

THIS IS AN INTERNET HOAX !

This hoax has been circulating for the past 3½-years now, and it keeps popping up over and over again as something brand new that’s getting ready to happen. Not true.

Read all about it.

Categories
Food

Funny Restaurant Name Files: Time For Thai

Here are some actual Thai restaurant names all across God’s Great Earth:

Beau Thai
High Thai
Just One Thai
Love Me Thai
Mai Thai
Mr. Thai
Old School Thai
Once Upon A Thai
Silk Thai
Tasty Thai
Thai Away Home
Thai A Yellow Ribbon
Thai-Inn
Thai Me Up
Thai One On
Thai Phoon
Thai Pinn
Thai Poon
Thai Rack
Thai-Rrific
Thai Soon
Thai Speed
Thai Stick
Thai Tanic
Thai The Knot
Thai This
That’s Thai
The Friendly Thai
The King & Thai
Tongue Thai
Try My Thai

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Weather

Get Ready Homestead – The ’80s Are Back !

Over the past 11 days we’ve only hit the 80°F mark once – last Thursday. We came close today – 78°F officially at Homestead ARB at 4 PM.

Get ready for an extended period of tranquil South Florida weather as we put the month of January to bed and usher in the month of February. For at least the next 7 to 10 days you can expect mostly sunny skies, virtually no rain, light tropical breezes from the east, southeast, and south, and no cold fronts. Daytime high temperatures will reach the lower-80s each day, and overnight low temperatures will hover in the mid-60s. It’s what we expect here in our subtropical paradise during this time of the year, and it’s what we’re getting. Get out there and enjoy it !

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Internet People

The Chris Day Club

This is not me; however, if I ever feel the need to register a trademark with the United States Patent & Trademark Office then I can’t think of a better lawyer to represent me than one who has the same name as me.

I once thought about registering ‘MASSIVESMASH.COM‘, ‘Major Hitwaves’, and ‘The Major’ back when my web site was flying high at its peak about a decade ago, but I never followed through with it past the ‘thinking about it’ stage. Once upon a time the ‘MASSIVESMASH.COM’ domain name was worth tens of thousands of dollars, but then the ‘dot-com’ bubble popped. Nowadays the domain name is probably worth a mere hundred or so dollars. I was criticized back then for not selling out my identity on the web. I’m glad that I held strong and kept it. It was a fun 12-year ride, but this blog right here is my new passion.