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[camwyn]

It's not often I laugh out loud at the stuff that gets stopped in my company's spam filter, but today there was a 419 email claiming to be from the 'Economic & Financial Crimes Commission' in Lagos, Nigeria. Their message began with what claimed to be their street address, including the lines (BE CAREFUL OF THE HOODLUMS / SCAMMERS) and 'Motto: No Body Is Above the LAW'. And just in case you missed it, after the 'Attn:' line they repeated themselves:

BE CAREFUL OF THE HUDLOOM


.... I'm sorry, I've been giggling for the last five minutes over this. BE CAREFUL OF THE HUDLOOM.



(The rest of the message is pretty standard, although it's also funny that the email claiming to be from Nigerian law enforcement gives a return email address in .pl. Seriously, people, BE CAREFUL OF THE HUDLOOM.)

(.... which, um, sounds like a Doctor Who villain.)

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Excerpted from the KD On-The-Spot Dictionary

[kd7sov]

Hudloom /hd•lüm/ (n.) A transparent display that presents data without requiring users to look away from their usual viewpoints, which is designed in such a way as to intimidate users, esp. by the impression of a large presence.

Re: Excerpted from the KD On-The-Spot Dictionary

[batyatoon]

I was just thinking it sounded like something out of Homestuck, and this definition fits it perfectly.

[lwood]

What sort of loom would one use to weave the Department of Housing and Urban Development?

Or, for that matter, a Heads-Up Display?

[camwyn]

I don't know. Personally, I went from thinking 'Doctor Who villain' to 'some sort of Pokemon' before the prospect of weaving came to mind. Some brain, huh?

[lwood]

Well, there /is/ that one Expanded Universe novel, Lungbarrow I think, where we found out Gallifreyans aren't born, but woven on some sort of bizarre genetic looms.

I haven't actually read this, mind you, but that's a place where you can cross the streams. Right...there. *points*