I just wanted to thank Martin Avis, for making me laugh out loud with this…
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Bloody cheek!
I get JV requests all the time. Some are more blatant than others, but none more so that an email I received yesterday from someone called Eric Rockefeller.
I don’t know him, and have no recollection of having had any dealings with him, so getting an email with the subject line: (Personal from EROCK) DUDE: You Mail Yet? JV SWIPE #3′ came as a surprise.
To start with, I hate emails that pretend to be personal when they are anything but, so he got off to a bad start, but it got worse.
The email started:
Hey, Dude, can you mail this for me…before I pull it down?
So personal that he doesn’t know my name and has now called me dude twice. Make it three times and I’d have to shoot him.
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Classic! 
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Other posts that mention Martin are… are Martin Avis and Allan Gardyne the same person?, my review of Martin’s free guide to making money online and… Martin’s garden covered in snow… oh, and mine too!