tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post114423358834106194..comments2022-07-19T15:56:37.035-04:00Comments on In the Middle: Two letters from my departmental mailboxCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1144456444501280782006-04-07T20:34:00.000-04:002006-04-07T20:34:00.000-04:00Rick Emmerson (Antichrist expert, for those not sa...Rick Emmerson (Antichrist expert, for those not savvy to the profession) told me that he'd received a letter in the 80s trying to warn him that JFK was Antichrist and would return 33 years' after his (JFK's) assassination. Makes sense, right?<BR/><BR/>Well RKE wrote back, as he tells me, that: a) his expertise extended only to medieval Antichrist; b) if, in fact, JFK did return from the dead to rule the world in 1996, RKE would revise his Antichrist book accordingly.<BR/><BR/>I can't see any analogous maneuver for you, JJC. Too bad!<BR/><BR/>--<BR/><BR/>But of course, we know from McCain's new buddy Jerry Falwell that JFK couldn't be Antichrist, since Antichrist <A HREF="http://www.slate.com/id/45483/" REL="nofollow">must be Jewish.</A> And male.<BR/><BR/>--<BR/><BR/>JJC, looking forward, by the way, to wending my way through your D & G article in its entirety and leaving my little comment droppings: it's just I'm trying to push Chapter 2 over into submission, and the Wild Herdsman is giving me the screaming fantods.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12848215331692228040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1144264970146334712006-04-05T15:22:00.000-04:002006-04-05T15:22:00.000-04:00Local postmarks? That's not good, man. You'd bet...Local postmarks? That's not good, man. You'd better start taking various routes home, and I'd suggest investing in some new hats and sunglasses...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1144260145977632082006-04-05T14:02:00.000-04:002006-04-05T14:02:00.000-04:00Though they ultimately may have been sent from ano...Though they ultimately may have been sent from another planet or dimension entirely, both bore local postmarks and no return addresses. Telephone numbers were supplied to initiate contact.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1144258325519666952006-04-05T13:32:00.000-04:002006-04-05T13:32:00.000-04:00Just out of curiosity, where were these old-fashio...Just out of curiosity, where were these old-fashioned spam messages from? Altoona? Long Island? Sarasota?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1144251766707048732006-04-05T11:42:00.000-04:002006-04-05T11:42:00.000-04:00"Spammed the old fashioned way" is right -- I didn..."Spammed the old fashioned way" is right -- I didn't even realize that working manual typewriters were still to be found ... can you even buy ink ribbons for them anymore?? <BR/><BR/>On the positive side, though, at least I don't have to worry about these letters I've posted being found by their authors via google searches.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1144244217204963842006-04-05T09:36:00.000-04:002006-04-05T09:36:00.000-04:00How odd. Or perhaps not-so? We've been receiving t...How odd. Or perhaps not-so? We've been receiving the same type of letters (though mostly typed) addressed to our professors (seemingly with no concern for the prof's area of study). We received a letter recently stating that so-and-so was working on a historical novel and in the course of his research, he came across the word "southerly" and wanted to know its meaning. Who writes letters asking such things? Or better yet, who writes a novel and never bothers to employ a dictionary? Included with the letter was a packet of structural diagrams and blueprints (you know, just in case we needed a visual aid).<BR/><BR/>We've also have a recent incarceree who calls on a monthly basis asking for help in getting a MS published. By now, the main office secretary recognizes his called ID.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, glad to know we aren't the only department being spammed the old fashion way.Just Another Travelerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15620874972466822569noreply@blogger.com
https://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/feeds/114423358834106194/comments/default
www.inthemedievalmiddle.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2022-33
13863
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:N2VIEHHBEMTRE72X4M6GXUQ5FNAQHFAE
<urn:uuid:c7623fca-0f78-4bb6-92ce-d47d019ffde1>
2022-08-16T00:26:21Z
172.217.13.243
application/atom+xml
sha1:5NS5J6WKZQBXBYXKXYCQZCYCIKNJSDSV
<urn:uuid:cdf98977-2821-4060-851b-519682d02b18>
https://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/feeds/114423358834106194/comments/default
response
<urn:uuid:de30eae2-aca1-464e-9710-983fbe3c415e>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-33
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for August 2022
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-12
software: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/