Identity theft is a nasty problem. Don’t let it happen to you. I can now tell you from personal experience that identity theft is no laughing matter. I just got my identity stolen 2 weeks ago. Only 3 checks were written and I’m still trying to sort out the issue.
Of course, identity theft is a lot easier for someone that already knows you personally. Watch out for your mom or your dad stealing your identity to buy a Porsche (because you obviously have that kind of credit), and, above all else, watch out for your grandfather stealing your identity. They’re the hardest to catch because nobody suspects old people are capable of anything.
What am I babbling about? My grandfather stole my identity a few weeks ago. A box of checks came in the mail and he went out and started using them. 3 checks later, he was finally caught in his own web of lies and deception and was forced to return the checkbook. An honest mistake? Perhaps, but having the exact same name as your descendants is hardly reason enough to take their hard-earned money and pay it off to the grocery store.
You’d think he’d have gone for something nice and flashy, but Mr David Haslem (or should we call him public enemy number one?) decided to lie low with my identity, paying a bill or two and writing groceries until his wife caught him in the act. Man did he feel sorry he’d mistaken the David Haslem written on the checks as his and not his grandson’s.
Oh well, I’ll have a check back from them as soon as I care to ask. And besides, those three checks he wrote were three more than I’ve written so far. Maybe he did my checkbook a favor by breaking it in. Just remember that identity theft can happen to anyone, especially people that live in the same house with a person that has the same name.
It’s time to catch up with my website updates, so what better place to start with than a Monty Python movie?
Score: 4.9π out of 900º
Though Monty Python’s ‘The Meaning of Life’ is an awesome movie, it is not a family friendly one; nor, for that matter, is it a friendly movie to anyone opposed to seeing breasts or hearing musical lyrics regarding the spiritual status of sperm. It is, however, classic Monty Python and thus extremely witty.
The movie, after chasing out idiots that aren’t sure what movie they think they’re watching via a trick feature presentation, goes on to attempt to describe what life is all about through a series of 10-15 minute skits loosely tied together. They never really solve the problem, but by the end of the movie we have no choice to assume that life is about silly jokes and bare-breasted women galavanting about.
Okay, so sex is also a large chunk of the meaning of life, and that’s accounted for too. Ranging from the sex education course with live demonstration to a pianist singing about his penis, there’s a large emphasis on sex throughout the movie. While I’d find it far too crude and tasteless elsewhere, Monty Python just has a way of pulling it off in the right way.
They also have to include fighting each other and death to round out the course of life fully. Rounded off with a couple of skits on birth (including the Roman Catholic singing about how every sperm is sacred, which is why he could not wear a condom and prevent himself from having 400 or so starving children) and a skit on live organ donation this movie turns out to be very humorous indeed. (Though it still gets quite vulgar in parts, mind you)
I left the movie feeling much better enlightened as to the meaning of life, being mainly that Monty Python was a genius group, so I give this the near perfect score of 4.9π.