Gmail - come and get it

G mail’s the one that scans your emails to see what your interests are, then appends specially targetted ads, right?

I would use my Gmail account to register at every website I possibly could and get myself on as many spam lists as possible. I would forward ALL the spam to other spam companies. I would also send Bassman long abusive (sorry, make that humourous) emails about how to spell ‘humour’.

Then I would wait and see what ads Google append to my emails, and post the results here at Forumosa as a public service.

If you give me the account I’ll also buy you an inflatable sheep.

As from what I read it does actually scan the content and based on that show text ads in a frame on the right but not append any ads to the messages itself.

Actually here is the offical version:

gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about.html#faq

I would be happy to have the gmail account. In exchange I will offer the following services. Here is my blurb –

As an advocate that “Foreigners are entitled to Six Year Drivers’ Licenses” in Taiwan, I will offer to complete the administrative appeals for FIVE FOREIGNERS to get their six year drivers’ licenses. Since the costs involved in that are normally several thousand NT$ each for processing, that amounts to over NT$ 10,000 of services provided to the forumosa.com community!!

I would only ask that each person who wants a six year driver’s license attach NT$ 100 to cover basic postage and handling.

In order to do this procedure, you would have to get me b/w photocopies of all your relevant documents (ARC, passport data pages, new driver’s license, all receipts, etc.) and to fill out and CHOP a form that I can email you . . . . . and you have to do that within a week or two weeks of getting your driver’s license . . . . . . because the appeal has to be filed with the city/county government within 30 days . . . . . . )

I would of course post the name, age, and location of each of these five persons on forumosa.com for reference.

I want your G-male so that I can give him a good spanking.

Ok, three accounts are going out to three lucky posters.

eaLit for classic brown nosing and reading my blog. Welcome to the site. Although I suspect that you are another poster. If not, welcome anyway and enjoy your gmail.

Maoman for going one up on S.J and getting the “G” words in the right order. Also for having a huge amount of emails from forumosans on a daily basis. He showed a real need and, well, I have to do some brown nosing of my own. :smiling_imp:

Hartzell. The man went all out on this one and put himself out at personal expense. I doubt if people will want to reveal their name, age, and location. So, I guess it won’t come together and Hartzell will save himself some work. But, just for the idea, there’s another gmail account going out to him too.

Winners. All you have to do is send me a PM or email to marksenglish@mail2Teacher.com that includes a valid email that you check often (google only keeps the offer open for 3 weeks) and I will forward the invitation to you.

Gmail is go!

Oh, drat. I knew I should’ve offered to share the porn with him. :blush:

Congrats all. I was about to say, just give it to Hartzell, but he won anyway on his own merits!

P.S. I lied. I’m not really a Mason. And I’m still not sure what G-mail is exactly. Oh well, at least I’ve got that competitive spirit.

All is not lost.

[color=red]
3 MORE INVITES FOR GMAIL ARE UP FOR GRABS.
[/color]

All you have to do this time is write a short composition about how “Chinglish” has changed your life.

The best 3 posts win.

Hmm. It basically hasn’t. Drat, another invite lost.

The closest anything came to that was when I was administering a group of people at hell on earth (an offshoot of IBM), and we’d go out to lunch once a week for a group meeting/gripe session. One was a mainland Chinese guy who was very shy. After a particularly long lunch one Friday, he said “Mai-kow, can we go now? I have meeting at two.” As in 2pm. I think it was already past. . . .

After driving him back to work as quickly as possible, word spread, and nobody would ride with me again after that. :slight_smile:

Of course, the funniest part was, the driver of the other car got into an accident on the way back . . . but nobody had any issue with his driving. :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

Bad Chinglish made me rediscover the group Simply Red (via Hexuan) and one of the coolest love songs to emerge from the 90’s (?), thanks to a notebook and the line “I Wanda fall from the sky straight into your arms” (pun, obviously unintentional):
You can read about in the thread if you want to know exactly how this happened…

forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.php?t=6692&start=0

I don’t use my gmail account that much, but it’s good for receiving very big attachments.

Smart way of launching it - still prefer to have pop access as well.

How has Chinglish changed my life? Well, between them Chinglish and Japlish helped shape my entire career path. Part of the reason I took up studying Japanese, and then Chinese later was irritation at stupid Japlish and Chinglish translations. If it hadn’t have been for the combined REAL ULTIMATE POWER of those two I would probably have not become a translator, nor would I have likely ended up living in Taiwan, nor even posting here! gasp! And without the spur of Chinglish to keep me studying Chinese, I may not have ended up meeting a couple of my former girlfriends. So as you can see, Chinglish has CHANGED MY LIFE.

Now giz my gmail account. Come on aw bro, don’t be stink. </cliched attempt at humorously invoking sympathy from a fellow countryman> :wink:

[quote=“Tetsuo”]
Now giz my gmail account. Come on aw bro, don’t be stink. </cliched attempt at humorously invoking sympathy from a fellow countryman> :wink:[/quote]

Cuzzie bro, I’ll have to kick the HQ in the guts and get that account over to ya.

If you are a real Kiwi you’ll laugh your ass off at this…

Tesuo, your posting looks just like one of the previous winners, a newbie(?)…hmmmmmmm.

I assume I just have to e-mail you like previously mentioned then?

And I also assume you’re talking about eaLit? 'cause there’s no way that was me… I don’t think I’d have the patience to write that much for one :wink:

And, oddly, that joke’s just inspired me to go put on my Fred Dagg CD. Odd, 'cause it’s not like there’s any connection between the two :smiley:

[quote=“Tetsuo”]I assume I just have to e-mail you like previously mentioned then?
[/quote]

Struth mate, you haven’t won yet.

Haha… Wanna hear a funny story?

I got 3 invitations to give away… gave them all away… and got 3 more…

Either Google’s very generous or I’m very lucky. Either way, they’re mostly taken, so I won’t offer them out here and steal Bassman’s monopoly. Or rain on his parade.

[quote=“Bassman”][quote=“Tetsuo”]I assume I just have to e-mail you like previously mentioned then?
[/quote]

Struth mate, you haven’t won yet.[/quote]

Jeez Wayne!

(Now there’s a test. :wink: )

I want to thank Spack for sending me a free Gmail account.
:notworthy:

[quote=“wolf_reinhold”]I want to thank Spack for sending me a free Gmail account.
:notworthy:[/quote]

SPACK!!!

Check the threads, Wolf has been voted a prick :wink: Does he need gmail? Now he’ll be a prick with banner ads. :wink: :laughing: He’s bound to hijack emails with terrible key words to give scary banner ads.

Herpes.