Strange soothsayer

Ok, so social networking tools have been surprising me for a couple of years now… The latest “WT…Wow!” was when Linked.In connected me with an exchange student who stayed with me for 6 weeks one summer in High School — we are both now married with different last names … I still have no idea how the algorithm cooked up a possible connection.

But today … well, today, I sucked it up and did what I’ve been trying to avoid for so long and joined Facebook.  The best part of this experience though was the comical results of the security pop up … to protect spam, you need to enter 2 randomly generated & paired words on a pop up window for each person before you can send them an invitation email..  you’ve seen these before. But the amazing part was exactly which words were paired with which potential friends. A sample below for your reading pleasure (note: you need to know the people — or yourself — to get the joke. And I will not make explanations, this is an “inside joke” post! — To save the innocent, I’ve ***ed out key letters of surnames,  but you’ll know who you are.) Enjoy!
Philip B****r– Men Foliage
Jerusha W**g– Gossip hound
Jennifer V****ry — Aces Mrs
Ethan Mc****y- available yet
Kelly S******k- authorities charity
Sarah G******n – slower conference
Kurt S*****e – but screen