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Googling For Prospective Date Unmasks Fugitive
pgrote writes "So you're a guy on the run - you decide to switch towns, put down some roots and start dating again. But if your special new friend happens to be someone who checks her potential dates by searching on Google, you're in trouble. Seems that LaShawn Pettus-Brown was caught by his date's discovery of him on an FBI site of fugitives, even after local Cincinnati news media couldn't find him. Score one for the Internet."
Looks like the Cincinnati news media finally got wise to the story.
From the article:"Internet search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, can turn up a variety of information about people and their interests. Using the Internet as a personal private detective is gaining in popularity in the dating world, as a way to background potential suitors, and to track down former classmates, relatives or genealogy information. The practice is becoming so commonplace that the word Google is being used a verb.
The newpaper editor Googling skills might have improved, but not their proofreading skills.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass
don't forget, google relies on linux (like how those companies rely on Duracell batteries in those Duracell ads).
Linux +1, SCO -2^google
Now can SCO say that they helped catch a fugitive? (the answer btw is no unless they turn themselves in).
o yea...this again is and was meant to be a funny.
Amen. As long as we're on the subject, I recommend that anyone in need of a good laugh take a look at Baby's Named a Bad, Bad Thing.
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than that of whether a submarine can swim" -EWD
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This is somewhat off the subject, but maybe not so far off. For years and years (and years and years) I was very clumsy when it came to women, and when I was 26 I decided that this was something that I could learn.
So I developed a method, and it worked for me. (I realize this is starting to sound like an infomercial, but it isn't! Let me interject here that nobody is going to try to sell you anything -- not now, and now later -- but I will tell you how to get a girlfriend if you could use some help.)
I told some friends about my marvy new method, and several tried it, and it worked for them, too. So I wrote it down. I once thought I might sell it, but later I decided just to give it away, in hopes that some other guys won't have to go through being awkward as I was.
It's written up like a report, and posted online among some free marketing material, on a site I manage. You can find the free "Sweetheart Report" at --
http://www.24metro.com/library/sweetheart_report
The 24Metro site sells voicemail and webhosting, but you don't have to buy anything or log in or anything. The above link takes you directly to the free report.
I expect to hear no flames, my bretheren. There is no catch. It's exactly what I claim: A powerful but simple method that will show anyone how to get a girlfriend, spelled out in complete detail, and available online at no cost, period.
From the time I developed this method at 26, I've had no difficulty meeting women. (Getting along with them, now that's something else!) Now I'm 59, and I've been with the same woman for the last 15 years, so it actually worked big time for me.
It might not work for you, I suppose, but I've received rather enthusiastic feedback. You've got nothing to lose but lonely.
If you're experiencing anything less than fun in your woman-searching, let me do you a favor. Check it out and try it. Most likely it will do the job. If you can't try the method now, for some sort of good reason which your mind will make up, bookmark the site and try it later. I can't really guarantee it will work for you, because some people can botch up bubble-gum. But it's worked for most other folks.
No flames, now. If I hear any flames -- especially from anybody who hasn't read it or tried it -- I shall laugh like this: Ha Ha!
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