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Category: Repost

  • Scamming A Scammer – Scamming Barrister Johnson Chambers – Pt 1

    Scamming A Scammer – Scamming Barrister Johnson Chambers – Pt 1

    Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22099-670: Originally written and/or posted previously elsewhere on Herbdate: 17,913 aka 02/21/2009: This was one of my attempts at scambaiting. Please accept my apologies in advance if Professor Frederick Von Googleheimer offends with any potty humor. It’s pretty mild and while some readers would not even notice,…

  • Bonus Post – Rapunzel

    Bonus Post – Rapunzel

    Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22096-667:Originally written and/or posted previously elsewhere on Herbdate: 17903 aka 02/10/2009: I was over at Beej’s Blisteringly Brilliant Blog (Possibly the most alliteratively named blog on the Internet.) http://brilliancewithbeej.blogspot.com/  yesterday and she was talking about how she and an old friend got together for a gossip, er,…

  • Plagiarism or Reblogged?  What is Copyright Infringement?

    Plagiarism or Reblogged? What is Copyright Infringement?

    Before I dive into this one let me make sure you understand that I am not a lawyer and I am not offering legal advice you can take to court. “Herb said this, your honor,” is not going to work. “Your honor, plaintiff states that on May 17th, 2020, Herb…

  • Duck!

    Duck!

    I originally posted this on one of the earlier incarnations of this blog on 06/23/09. I didn’t re-post it on that date here because I have rewritten a few lines of it. It was, in fact, called, “Duck.” When we lived at the old house I used to have to…

  • Dead Drunk

    Dead Drunk

    I wrote the original piece in ’05 when the thing happened. I found the re-post I did in ’08. When I saw the title in the archives I re-read and recalled the whole sad, sickening thing. My question is still valid. Why isn’t alcohol a prescription drug? Why do I…

  • An Issue With The Old Stuff

    An Issue With The Old Stuff

    I was looking at the notifications that go out when I post something and can see a potential issue with the reposts. It seems it could be easy to confuse some of the old posts with new posts if a person just clicks the link and reads, so I will…

  • Had A Procedure

    Had A Procedure

    Not going into details but some procedures, no matter how routine, take a lot out of you. But I passed and don’t have to do it again for another ten years, so that’s cool. Where’d She Go? The ninety-five year old woman at the nursing home received a visit from…

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