Reprints of three seperate MSN Messenger conversations.
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I should first point out that I don’t have anything against mobile phone companies, far from it, I applaud the tenacity with which they’re getting filthy stinking rich off an industry that didn’t exist 15 years ago. This time around I’m looking to hook up my ever growing children with their first phones.
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In what is going to be a regular feature, our hero dons the cape of consumer activism and goes in search of getting a better deal from his mobile phone operator. Saddled with a lousy phone and a lousy contract, Sam works his unmistakeable mojo on those in a customer service role.
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This will be the first in a regular series of articles detailing the proclivities of the Proclivity. While it takes a rare individual to pluck up the gumption to declare their allegiance, it takes a rarer individual still to then make their mark and ascend through the Echelons.
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I have a healthy fixation with the words and phrases internet denizens have used to find this outlet of philosophy. And why not? After all, every other site operator out there probably trawls through their referals and says “grilled mackeral, what the hell?” dismissing it as a fluke, a distraction, a quirk of the ether. These people are fools, they do not realise that this search did not happen without cause, that the result was stumbled on without the searcher wanting to find the answer, so, whether the search be mispelled as with our good friend Mr Mackeral, nonsensical or just plain weird, I’ll happily fulfill any requests that come in.
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“Saturday,” wrote Mister Kipling, “had some young urchins at the back door trying to sell me their pornography hard-to-pronounce pharmaceutical substances. So I invited them in and they’re now shackled in my win cellar.”
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