Nigerian malaproppery

[Sam Clements]

You made my night.  Thanks.

The only thing left to consider is what is her religion today?
[quote]Before his death we were both Christians. [...] [/quote]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 8:44 PM
Subject: Nigerian malaproppery


> Usually it takes me considerably less than a second to recognize a
Nigerian
> scam spam letter and delete it, assuming I have not already deleted it
from
> the subject line index. But a word in the first paragraph of this one
caught
> my attention and I thought it was worth sharing with the rest of you word
> freaks.
>
> -----
>
> DONATION FOR THE CHILDREN OF GOD!!
>
> From: Mrs. Mariam Alfred Williams
>
> Dearest in the Lord.
>
> PLEASE ENDEAVOUR TO USE IT FOR THE CHILDREN OF GOD.
>
> I am the above named person from Ghana. I am married to Dr Alfred
> Williams who worked with Ghanaian embassy in South Africa for nine
> years before he died in the year 2002.We were married for eleven years
> without a child. He died after an epigrammatic illness that lasted for
> only four days. Before his death we were both Christians. [...]
>
> -----
>
>
> -- Mark Mandel, Lord High Elocutioner*
> [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
>
> * I was so dubbed by the husband of a fellow cast member of "The Filkado"
> (http://www.mcgath.com/filkado.html) on the basis of my role therein as
Dr.
> McKoko, the Lord High Evil Genius, combined with the signature I use when
> being linguistical in non-linguistic Internet environments:
>
> -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian,
>     Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody
>     a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel
>