My 7-yr-old son is very interested in chess. He wants me to put it on his computer. So, I decided that I'd set him up with Yahoo! chess. I tried to create a Yahoo! account so that he could play chess. Yahoo! wanted me to enter a credit card number in order to setup an account for him. WTF? Fine, I'll go somewhere else.

Of late, I've been getting the stupidest support emails for Talk-Sports. Here's a sample. Like any good forum, the website has an automatic mechanism to block some posts based on keywords, posting frequency, IP address and membership level. This guy Harold sent me the following email.

for some reason i guess i was blocked from saying things on this page, well its my rights and its call freedom of speech. I already had to clear this up on Manny's page himself and i want to have my rights thanks for your time

I responded that my premium members don't get blocked and he might consider upgrading. I also mentioned that freedom of speech doesn't apply to MY website. After we exchanged a few emails, he decided to get his lawyer involved. The email from his lawyer contained typos, grammar errors, miscapitalizations, no line breaks, was from an AOL account, an ad footer and his own name was misspelled. Clearly written by someone with a post graduate education. If you are gonna fake an email from a lawyer, at least use a spellchecker.

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