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Monty Boyce asks: Have you ever had a real-life meet with somebody you first knew from the internet? How did it go? How long until the Asbo expires?

(, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 12:43)
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It's all about the money
While travelling around the USA in 2005 I met Rob of Cockeyed.com. He introduced me to Chipotle and we played a round of "how much is inside Rob's wallet" when I realised I'd left mine at the house.

Over mouthsful of burrito, we got chatting about his site's income from Google ads. He said he was looking for potentially profitable experiment ideas which would generate high-cost adverts on his pages and, hopefully, a fatter slice for his eager pockets. Famously, mining-related lung disease ads are the most expensive but "how much is inside a diseased lung" might not have been the most ethical episode.

At the time I was working for a car accessories website and, off the top of my head, I recalled that alloy wheel ads were the priciest that I was buying at the time. Not two years later the following experiment just happened to show up on Cockeyed: Spinning Rim Centrifuge Experiment.

With any luck, the extra revenue paid for the burrito and we're quits. You don't want to owe money to a guy with solar ray gun at his disposal.
(, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:26, 2 replies)
I don't understand any of this.
Is it an updated form of Polari?
(, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 22:56, closed)
Nope.
Not a clue.
(, Thu 27 Oct 2011, 10:51, closed)

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