Poor guy. Has a "heart attack" and people stalk him. That's messed up.
Are you suggesting Lemon basically lifted a scam idea from an
episode of
Only Fools & Horses?
http://www.ofah.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/chains.jpgFor anyone who missed out on the fun while it lasted (on IRC), here's the summary.
..., ninja/black belt in everything, US army trained, designed and built the UK faster payment system, was the first man on the moon, has met absolutely any important person or celebrity you might care to name,
etc, etc...
For 27, quite a list of accomplishments. For those of you inspired by Lemon's successes in life and wanting to be more like him, remember that you can't change overnight; set yourself some more modest goals, or you'll only disappoint yourself. May I suggest you would-be Lemons:
- finish something you've solicited money for (alternatively: promise somebody a refund, and then actually pay it --- even to just one person)
- deliver on an ambitious target or promise (alternatively: fail to deliver, but be honest about why; certainly don't fabricate car accidents, car trouble, family problems, illness, muggings, unexpected visits from in-laws, inexplicable-yet-repeated communications outages or any other dog-ate-my-homework-type patheticness)
- repay someone, anyone, some money you borrowed from them (alternatively: be honest and communicative and say you're not going to be able to, and/or repay what you can)
- be modest about your achievements (alternatively: make barely credible claims matching your amazing achievements, but back them up with something falsifiable/verifiable)
- watch Shattered Glass to see what happens to, and how the rest of the world sees, the types of people who fail to achieve any of these things
- be honest enough with yourself to accept that you may have a problem and seek help for it
