Post by debutante on Mar 5, 2018 11:20:12 GMT -5
Okay...I make no secret of the fact that I don't trust a certain group of people and I am not going to apologize for it. In my book, "better safe than sorry".
That being said -- I could be being a little paranoid. That -- or I stumbled onto something by accident and should be alerting Homeland Security. I AM NOT SCREWING AROUND -- THIS IS A SERIOUS POST.
It started innocently enough. My husband did some work on a patient today who is a friend of my brother. This person told my husband to tell my brother that someone from the old neighborhood died. Now my brother knows a lot of people I do not know -- for one thing, he is older -- for another, he was more neighborhood oriented as a child. I was more bookish and spent most of my time in the house reading.
Anyhow...this dead person went by a nonsense nickname. I had heard the nickname before. For the sake of the story let's say it was "Moo Moo Cow Cow" (not really the nickname, but just as stupid). Anyhow, when my husband called me and told me to pass this information on to my brother as per request -- I told him that I'd heard the name, but didn't actually know the person.
I sat down -- wrote my brother an email telling him Moo Moo Cow Cow died yesterday and sent it. Afterwards, I briefly wondered if maybe I did know "Moo Moo Cow Cow" (at least by sight) and didn't realize I did. Maybe I'd seen this person around the neighborhood at church, or in one of the stores. This is the age of the Internet -- maybe this person has a website account with their photo -- I should Google them and check to see if I do know them after all.
So I typed "Moo Moo Cow Cow" in Google (thinking that since this person went by that stupid nickname all their life -- if they opened up a Facebook account it would come up under the name people actually knew him by).
Well, there was one account on Facebook under "Moo Moo Cow Cow". BUT...the very little bit of actual words on it was written in Arabic.
Okay...so what --- lots of Arabic people have Facebook accounts. But what bothered me was the photographs.
In fact, that was all that was on this account was a series of photographs of a pair of hands holding playing cards. Specifically...different "hands". As if they were playing cards with someone.
But if you were going to do that with a friend -- I should think it would be easier (and faster) to do in email.
There are 26 letters in the alphabet.
52 cards in a deck.
I looked at enough of the hands to realize that not all the cards seemed to be being used. The thought crossed my mind that it was communication disguised as a "card game".
I got off the person's site as quickly as possible just in case it was what I think it was...and Homeland Security already knows about it. I don't want to be thought to be one of the players.
But what if HS hasn't seen this...I mean who is going to look for "Moo Moo Cow Cow"? It was just a fluke that someone in my old neighborhood went by that goofy name and God only knows why he did.
And maybe I am crazy and it is just a card game. But whoever saw a card game where most of the cards are the higher cards A,K,Q,J? Saw no deuces or other low cards whatsoever.
Please skeptics -- tell me I am just paranoid.
--Debutante
That being said -- I could be being a little paranoid. That -- or I stumbled onto something by accident and should be alerting Homeland Security. I AM NOT SCREWING AROUND -- THIS IS A SERIOUS POST.
It started innocently enough. My husband did some work on a patient today who is a friend of my brother. This person told my husband to tell my brother that someone from the old neighborhood died. Now my brother knows a lot of people I do not know -- for one thing, he is older -- for another, he was more neighborhood oriented as a child. I was more bookish and spent most of my time in the house reading.
Anyhow...this dead person went by a nonsense nickname. I had heard the nickname before. For the sake of the story let's say it was "Moo Moo Cow Cow" (not really the nickname, but just as stupid). Anyhow, when my husband called me and told me to pass this information on to my brother as per request -- I told him that I'd heard the name, but didn't actually know the person.
I sat down -- wrote my brother an email telling him Moo Moo Cow Cow died yesterday and sent it. Afterwards, I briefly wondered if maybe I did know "Moo Moo Cow Cow" (at least by sight) and didn't realize I did. Maybe I'd seen this person around the neighborhood at church, or in one of the stores. This is the age of the Internet -- maybe this person has a website account with their photo -- I should Google them and check to see if I do know them after all.
So I typed "Moo Moo Cow Cow" in Google (thinking that since this person went by that stupid nickname all their life -- if they opened up a Facebook account it would come up under the name people actually knew him by).
Well, there was one account on Facebook under "Moo Moo Cow Cow". BUT...the very little bit of actual words on it was written in Arabic.
Okay...so what --- lots of Arabic people have Facebook accounts. But what bothered me was the photographs.
In fact, that was all that was on this account was a series of photographs of a pair of hands holding playing cards. Specifically...different "hands". As if they were playing cards with someone.
But if you were going to do that with a friend -- I should think it would be easier (and faster) to do in email.
There are 26 letters in the alphabet.
52 cards in a deck.
I looked at enough of the hands to realize that not all the cards seemed to be being used. The thought crossed my mind that it was communication disguised as a "card game".
I got off the person's site as quickly as possible just in case it was what I think it was...and Homeland Security already knows about it. I don't want to be thought to be one of the players.
But what if HS hasn't seen this...I mean who is going to look for "Moo Moo Cow Cow"? It was just a fluke that someone in my old neighborhood went by that goofy name and God only knows why he did.
And maybe I am crazy and it is just a card game. But whoever saw a card game where most of the cards are the higher cards A,K,Q,J? Saw no deuces or other low cards whatsoever.
Please skeptics -- tell me I am just paranoid.
--Debutante
