TR

On 20 Nov, 16:52, Halfordian Golfer wrote:
On Nov 19, 1:06 am, Mike wrote:

Unfortunately the trip to the Baltic did not materialise, as the guy
who was supposed to be driving us got sick. Unfortunate, but that´s
how it goes.

TL
MC

Bummer to hear that Mike. Hope your friend is feeling better and you
get back on the stream. Being from Colorado a fishing trip for Sea
Trout in the Baltic sounds very exotic and something I'd like to do
someday.

Your pal,

Tim

There will be other trips. He has the ´flu apparently, he will
doubtless recover in a few days. For some reason I tend to associate
"exotic" trips with somewhere warm. The Baltic right now is not very
warm!

TL
MC

Reading this stuff on Google Groups at work, and having nothing else
of substance to contribute to yet another of these threads, I thought
I'd offer an observation on just how insidious the industry of
targeted advertising has become. In skimming through the posts of
whose dog has fleas and who can play what instruments etc., I noticed
that two of the three sponsored links were for ukelele dealers.

In responding to the first post in the thread wherein MC uses the word
"sick", the three sponsored ads changed to a spine surgery center, a
disk replacement center, and an German MRT center.

Scary, I tell ya.

Joe F.

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:42:21 -0800 (PST), rb608
wrote:

Reading this stuff on Google Groups at work, and having nothing else
of substance to contribute to yet another of these threads, I thought
I'd offer an observation on just how insidious the industry of
targeted advertising has become. In skimming through the posts of
whose dog has fleas and who can play what instruments etc., I noticed
that two of the three sponsored links were for ukelele dealers.

In responding to the first post in the thread wherein MC uses the word
"sick", the three sponsored ads changed to a spine surgery center, a
disk replacement center, and an German MRT center.

Scary, I tell ya.

And speaking of scary, what did the "Alloy" picture produce - ads for
lava lamps, peter pumps, pukka shell necklaces, and a link to Engledink
Humperbert's craiglist garage sale ad, featuring Wayne Newton's
hand-me-downs?

TC,
R

Joe F.