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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:27 am

I've gotten very close several times to sending an email to a friend having signed it with main baiting character's name.

I was traveling recently and saw a life ring with the name 'Safari' on it and was mad that I didn't have my camera with me to take a picture.

We've taken a vacation house for two weeks and one of the requirements was that it had to have internet connection. When we got here and the modem was missing, I about had a cow. The rental management company had to shell out 250 bucks for a new modem just to keep me happy. Twisted Evil

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:18 am

I use to hate when I got scam mail....
Is it strange that now I get excited to get it? Laughing

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:39 pm

You know you have baited too long when...

You have researched Benin so much and sent so many lads on safari there, that you actually quite fancy taking a RL trip there yourself.... Rolling Eyes

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:34 pm

Simba:

I hear there is a nice camp near there where you can take a photo safari!

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 18313

@Simba: If I talk you into going, can I claim a pith helmet? Laughing

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:37 pm

As I get older I have become more and more dependent on notes at work to make sure I get to everything I need to accomplish each day. I had a really busy day last week where I had about 10 tasks I needed to complete before going home. I also had a good bait going where I told the lad that I would go over to MG during my lunch break and then send him the details. My notes read something like:

1) do task 1
2) verify task 2
3) check in with someone on coordinating task 3
4) email off phony MG details to lad
5) status management on previous tasks
6) release task 6 for use

It's good thing no one else reads my notes...

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:21 pm

Reminds me of what a locally famous author, survival pope, human rights activist and traveller Rüdiger Nehberg (informally known as "Sir Vival" Smile

), writes about notes he does not want others to read, he writes them down using the Arabic alphabet. It has a great ornamental function, too, IMO, it´s just a different alphabel and looks great Very Happy

I also have a notepad here right next to my home office desk but whereever I go, I tend to write down notes as well, and sometimes I use that modality, making it look as uninteresting as possible Laughing

(For today it actually was "work out how to use WU S3cvr3", but I found how to implement a few more time-wasting complaints beforehand!)

Elite Baiter Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1269

.....when a friend stops by and asks what you're doing on the computer and you realize you don't have a single tab open in FF that isn't related to baiting in some way. (Sitekilling actually.) And you have 14 tabs open. Embarassed

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 3:12 pm

You know you've been baiting for too long when you begin to use the word "receipt" as either a verb or an adjective.

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:05 pm

When you see this and wonder how to change 'keep' for 'run'
Not to mention explaining, or trying to explain, to your Driver Instructor just what you are taking the picture for in the first place.

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:20 pm

Inspector Gadget wrote:

or trying to explain, to your Driver Instructor just what you are taking the picture for in the first place.

... and just had to stop the car on the middle of a railroad crossing

Great pic Laughing

419Eater is my life Joined: 29 Oct 2005 Posts: 266

When you set up a new yahoo to forward to a new gmail account and set the gmail account to 'send as' the yahoo account......
So your girl friend can send emails from yahoo (apparently) while hiding her IP.

When you answer your RL mobile in a hi pitched upper class English accent when your Irish mother calls...

When you go to London and the main attraction is the webcam in Covent Garden

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:21 pm

.. when you realize it has become a habit starting your laptop even before you hit the coffee machine on/off button every morning before going to work.

Master Baiter Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 123

a month ago me and my girlfriend decided to go on holiday together. we booked it and then went shopping for some extra clothes etc. We found a place selling pith helmets and the girl told me i should get one (apparently she thought i would look funny wearing one)- she looked very puzzled when i told her that i wasnt allowed one until i'd "sent a lad on safari" Embarassed

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:54 pm

I am not sure when I started sending out emails with "remain bless" fom my work address Embarassed

Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:27 am

One day this week my neighbor comes across the street, knocks on door and I pretend that I'm not home. Surprised

Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:01 am

Quote:

One day this week my neighbor comes across the street, knocks on door and I pretend that I'm not home.

I do that to my neighbors all the time! Smile

I haven't baited much (just a few back and forth emails so far), but find myself working out storylines and stopping work to write them down in a (quickly growing) notepad!

Is this normal??? Very Happy

Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:06 am

^^^Welcome to the facility! Very Happy

Yes it's norm! Wink

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 20 Jun 2008 Posts: 4

Although I don't bait right now, I do lurk quite a bit here. Recently, my canadian passport expired, and I wondered seriously if I should photoshop a scan of it to add to the baiters' toolkit! (Yes, I do still have it and if anyone needs something done with it, just let me know!)

Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:36 am

You know you've baited too long when :

You tell someone at work "it will be ready tomorrow" the day before you fly to Turkey for a fortnight.

You come back from Turkey and insist you sent it.

You use the term "ooooooooooooooooooooooooo" in an email

You know more lads than friends

Not quite a Newb Joined: 16 Aug 2008 Posts: 49

when your boyfriend tells you he picked you up a present from the post office...and it's a leaflet about moneygram Laughing

and that's only after 2 months, poor bloke

Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:46 pm

I'm relatively new but I can tell i've been baiting too much lately.

A lot of my baiter characters use broken english and it's starting to become a habit in my writing, I've caught myself omitting the word "the" and "a" and using the wrong conjugations of verbs a few times in documents I write for work..

Also when I send casual emails to co-workers about mundane work related stuff, I horse around on the emails saying "please treat this matter as urgent and reply urgently"

Elite Baiter Joined: 16 Jul 2008 Posts: 1407

I'm waiting for the perfect opportunity to use 100% Risky Free on a budget analysis for my boss. In light of the financial difficulties in the US, that would of course be helpful.

Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 1:52 am

We had Supper with some friends and we was imagining setting in a computer chair for 8 hrs.
Lovey gave me a wink! Razz

I'm sorry, I can't lead this couple to 419, because she would humiliate me. I like him, but she would find a way. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:24 am

When you go on holiday to a distant and foreign country, and your holiday pictures consist of, 2 shots of elephants bathing in the Mekong, 1 shot (out of focus ) of a forgotten temple somewhere, 3 shots of ethnic people doing something that you can't remember anymore, and 247 pics of Western Union Offices in strange and really weird places

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