He Made An Offer I Didn't Understand

Yesterday, I received an astounding e-mail message from someone named Stan Nonin at stan.nonin@blueridgehosting.com to wit:

From: Stan Nonin
Date: 06/04/08 16:37:52
To: neil.sapper@gmail.com
Subject: blog sapper.blogspot.com
Dear owner of sapper.blogspot.com,
I noticed that your blog "sapper.blogspot.com" hasn't been updated for a while. I'd like to buy this blog.
I assume that you are not interested in running it anymore.
I can buy this blog for $150.
What do you think?
Stan Nonin,
stan.nonin@blueridgehosting.com

Whoa! This blog "hasn't been updated for a while"? Then I googled "Stan Nonin" and encountered a lot a traffic from bloggers asking "Who is this guy?" The gist of the items seemed to suggest that Ol' Stan was a scammer and a spammer. I feel jilted. The guy didn't really want my blog, he wants any blog. Well, like most of the other blogger responses, he can't have it. Stan ought to have his reply sent to "Fat Chance, Arkansas" instead of Mechanicsburg, PA.

So, as (my role-model) The Kinkster says, "Hold the weddin'." This is another Internet hoax. For a minute, Ol' Stan had me goin', but in the cold light of the next day, I am pleased to report that this blog ain't for sale. (Truth of the matter is the blog is owned by Blogger — a software provider owned by Google — and I don't think that Google would sell Ol' Stan anything.) Amazingly, Google charges me nada, zip, zero, zilch for all of the space I hog on its server(s) with thousands of blog entries since mid-2003. For my part, I agree to comply with Google's boilerplate about not posting anything that is illegal, immoral, or fattening in my blog. If this blog is the (fair & balanced) marvel of our age, so be it.

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