[SOC] Dutch

[Todd Butler]

Jan wrote:

>Well, after bragging that I never receive spam here, I got an extended 
>message informing me that I was one of 17 people to have won the Dutch
>lottery (is there a Dutch lottery?).
>
You should recall that the worldwide headquarters and America's largest 
single Spam production facility is less than 170 miles from your QTH in 
Austin, Minnesota.   Between that and the Hormel Chili side of things, 
add a major transcontinental railroad line (the Union Pacific/Chicago & 
Northwestern) practically runs through your front yard, and you think a 
loose case of canned food might not fall out of a box car?  Get ready 
for the marital aids, and cut rate pharmacies next!

>I was advised to keep it to myself.
>
Seriously, wrap it up with pretty paper and a shiny ribbon, and give it 
to friends in late December!

>They clearly did not have my name, and I don't know where they got my
>EMail address. It is interesting that my name is ethnically Dutch
>(Jan Clute (once Kloot/Kloet or variation thereof?), but has been anglicized
>since at least the mid-17th century.  Isn't there somewhere that you can
>send these things to get the FCC or FTC after them?
>
You might try a barter session with the folks in the Amana Colonies, 
about a thirty minute drive west on highway US 30 and then US 151 to the 
south.  They were never Dutch, but (I know, because I worked there 24 
years ago) they crank out one heck of a line of major kitchen 
appliances.  (stoves, refrigerators, microwaves, et cetera)  If that 
doesn't work out, turn the generator over to the solicitor from Nigeria!  

You aren't related to the boy who kept his finger in the dike, are you?

73,    Todd     N0NCL   SOC  # 533