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Arizona Hot:
From: [email protected] (Temp12399)
Subject: Badge Names
Date: 23 Nov 1998 03:00:39 GMT

My company has exhibited in one of the largest trade shows in the
U.S. for many years.  Every year we need some extra admittance badges for our
people who lose theirs or need one for a spouse.  Since names John Doe and Mary
Smith would show a complete lack of intelligence, I always make up names that
sound like a real person, but really say something else.  So that the show
people won't catch on too easily (and reject our badge requests) the first
names are usually real names and the last names are spelled strangely enough
that the real meaning is somewhat "hidden".  

The list is below, and after that is the same list with the hidden meaning
spelled out.  Don't cheat now.  See how many you can get.

BADGE NAMES

RANDALL I. DRAWPED       
LIONEL CAUSTRUBLS       
MYRA MANES               
CLAUDE ISBETERNATE       
EATON PAWSUM             
PHYLLIS UPWILLYA
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Badge Names.txt (5.06 kB - downloaded 222 times.)

Arizona Hot:
Tricky and IQ Questions
-Arizona Hot (October 31, 2014, 02:08 PM)
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without answers  (see attachment in previous post)well, you're supposed to login (which I wouldnt do anyway, not being registered) but the login link doesnt work here anyway  (see attachment in previous post)
-tomos (October 31, 2014, 03:15 PM)
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You have to "Sign Up" before you can login. I would have done it, but they wanted my birthdate. That is something I'm not going to give for something like this. I'm not that interested in reviewing or discussing movies.

Shades:
And even if you do fill in any date, you can't login at all. So the website itself deserves a set of rotten tomatoes... ;)

TaoPhoenix:
You have to "Sign Up" before you can login. I would have done it, but they wanted my birthdate. That is something I'm not going to give for something like this. I'm not that interested in reviewing or discussing movies.
-Arizona Hot (October 31, 2014, 08:17 PM)
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Yeah, I'm annoyed at the "useless" services that keep wanting your birthdate, not the least because it's still the backbone of tons of extremely important stuff. "For your security, what's your birthdate?" (??!) You might almost want to say "it's on my facebook page." The other one is medical. Because they don't want million dollar lawsuits when two John Smiths show up for treatment, they always ask "so your birthdate is...?"

Except for weird cases, those places don't need birthdates. The only fuzzy one is when you want to look at some NSFW stuff and they're required to ask *something* from the 2257 rules. So just give them Jan 2 19xx the year *after* you were born, aka you're plenty old enough, and in the twilight zone case if it ever matters, you/counsel says, "oh I'm sorry, I'm OLDER than I told you."

TaoPhoenix:

This one is more informative and less silly, so it's for "Interesting Stuff".

It's Tom Scott (Does he have an IQ of 150!?) on basic password security.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoMOAIzBSpY

I vaguely knew about this stuff, but the incrementally more you learn, slowly you can evolve to better questions that really matter. Hopefully by this point I am not a hopeless case, but it's a tough balance between being a "limited polymath" and being a specialist that drowns the minute you get out of your fields!

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