A teensy quibble: Poor David—a patently honest man, or I'm not the proud owner of the Brooklyn Bridge—asserts he's suffered abuse at the hands of his father's family, not his father.
The Barefoot Bum | Homepage | 07.12.07 - 12:07 am | #

Fair enough--there's an ideogram there that could be an apostrophe (or does it just show up as an ideogram in my browser--though the email was sent from a Japanese Yahoo account).

Poor David—a patently honest man, or I'm not the proud owner of the Brooklyn Bridge

LOLOL!
AV | Homepage | 07.12.07 - 12:49 am | #

Also--the official language of the Ivory Coast is French--yet the address he provides is in English.
AV | Homepage | 07.12.07 - 3:32 pm | #

Curiously enough I was reading about nigerian scam emails just a couple of days ago and wiki links it to this page, which I found quite interesting.
Also check out this scam baiting href="http://419eater.com/" target="site">site, scary and hilarious at the same time.
Jonzie | Homepage | 07.12.07 - 6:08 pm | #

Love the intermittent upper casing.
Mikey | Homepage | 07.12.07 - 10:17 pm | #

I think I have the exact same non-message in my ever-expanding archive of such drivel and spew.

Have to get our chuckles wherever we can find 'em, I guess.
Ed Buttler | Homepage | 07.15.07 - 12:23 pm | #