The Weird SH*T You Receive Via Spam

So I pop up my work email, after being gone on Friday, and the crap I get over the weekend. And there's a lovely email telling me that for $69.99, I can own a small piece of land in the Scottish Highlands, and will then be able to legally refer to myself as either Laird or Lady. But only if I send them $69.99, and then properly register the land in my name. Now, I'm a little skeptical for a few reasons.

1.) First off, there were/are a number of responsibility the laird or lady had to the folks who lived on their land, and were sworn to them. Now, I'm guessing these are tiny little plots, barely big enough to stand on, for $69.99, so I doubt anyone much lived on them, but still!

2.) The company that sent me this email is named Scotish Highland Titles. Unless things have changed drastically without my knowing, Scottish has two "t"s.

3.) The company sending me this "unique chance to own a piece of Scottish history" is based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kind of a long way from Scotland, if you ask me!

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Chicago was amazing. The weather was great, the hotel was okay, the wedding was great fun. It truly was a Beloit College reunion of the grandest kind! There were somewhere between 15 and 20 Beloiters there, and so many of them I hadn't seen since graduation in 1998. But we all picked up right where we'd left off. It was phenomenal. Obviously I got to see Will and Sara, as well as Marty. I saw Dave, Brian and Debz, and Molly, and Andy, and Taylor, Sarah Goldfarb, and Sharon. There were a bunch of the newer Beloiters that I met at Marty's St. Patrick's Day party. In fact, Zee will be in Denver in the next couple of weeks, and is going to give me a call.

Told lots of people to visit, they all said they'd try. Got Dave's email addy, since I lost track of him when I graduated, and haven't talked to him since. He's now in Rochester, MN, which is stunningly ironic! So, I have tons of people who said they'd visit... I can't wait!