"im" oddities

The text of this post is from an im exchange I had this morning with a stranger. It is one of the odder conversations I can recall in recent memory. However strange conversations are fairly common on the net. If "strange is all you get from the unsolicited web social butterfly consider yourself fortunate. Normaly these out of the blue tags are juvinile and vulgar or they are from trying to sell you something (Which is probably what this one was, though I didn't really understand their marketing tactics).
In all too many cases the are the attempts of malicious hackers and jackers looking for a way into your computer. I don't think this ome was one of those but it did strike me as funny which is why I am posting it here. I, by the way am "augy" in this im exchange and the other individual is "roufje7" (Sounds sort of like a Russian space craft doesn't it?) and flyingbird...Funny old world...



roufje7 (2/17/2006 8:13:10 AM): hey there are u into sneezing? and do you sneeze a lot?


Augi (2/17/2006 12:10:57 PM): ? Pardon ?
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:29:41 PM): hello there
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:29:45 PM): how are u?
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:29:54 PM): are u into sneezing?
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:31:14 PM): or am i now writing to the wrong person?
Augi (2/17/2006 12:31:21 PM): I am afraid you have me at a loss. Do I know you and why are you curious about "sneezing"
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:31:42 PM): mmm strange
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:31:52 PM): duno from which group i got you from on the yahoo
Augi (2/17/2006 12:32:09 PM): Group?
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:32:15 PM): yeah yahoo groups
Augi (2/17/2006 12:33:33 PM): I am lost here. Do I know you ? Yahoo groups?
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:33:53 PM): no you don't know me i guess
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:34:12 PM): but i just searched some people on yahoo groups to talk about it
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:34:20 PM): but lets forget the sneezing part hahah never mind
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:34:27 PM): by the way nice meeting you
Augi (2/17/2006 12:35:00 PM): What yahoo groups ?
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:35:29 PM): sneeze groups dunno anymore
Augi (2/17/2006 12:36:07 PM): I can assure you I am not a member of any "sneezing" groups.
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:36:17 PM): mmm ok
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:36:24 PM): sorry then i got it wrong i guess
Augi (2/17/2006 12:36:57 PM): Sure, it happens
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:37:25 PM): so wher eyou from? i'm from HOlland
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:37:26 PM):
Augi (2/17/2006 12:38:08 PM): The U.S.
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:38:15 PM): wow that far away
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:38:23 PM): all the way cross the ocean haha
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:38:26 PM):
Augi (2/17/2006 12:38:50 PM): Indeed
Augi (2/17/2006 12:42:16 PM): Do you always select random people from across the net to survey their sneezing prefrences? Or was today just a wild leap.
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:49:28 PM): haha today was just a wild leep haha
Augi (2/17/2006 12:49:32 PM): Well toodles then. Heb een aangename dag
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:49:35 PM): sorry for disturibing you
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:49:43 PM): hahaha
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:49:51 PM): how do you know that
Augi (2/17/2006 12:50:05 PM): You are not disturbing me just confusing me
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:50:26 PM): sorry for confusing you
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:50:36 PM):
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:50:41 PM): how do you know dutch?
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:52:14 PM): can i ask you some questions?
Augi (2/17/2006 12:52:27 PM): I don't. I know a little German and I have a ...er, uh sure.
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:52:43 PM): what is your goal in life?
Augi (2/17/2006 12:54:06 PM): That is not only rather vauge but a little forward. I
Augi (2/17/2006 12:55:44 PM): I couldn't begin to answer that in any thing less than a 1,000,000 words and even then I am not sure that it would mean anything
roufje7 (2/17/2006 12:59:57 PM): mmm yeah ok
roufje7 (2/17/2006 1:00:17 PM): i gues smy answer would be : finding out who I am
roufje7 (2/17/2006 1:00:43 PM): i don't knwo who i am yet, we change everyday, make new choices, meet different people, make mistakes but also find love
roufje7 (2/17/2006 1:01:03 PM): i couldn't give you the answer myself so i wan to know who the real me is at the end of my life
roufje7 (2/17/2006 1:01:26 PM): the only thing i'm sure of now is that the red line in my life are the ones who are near to my heart
roufje7 (2/17/2006 1:01:30 PM):
roufje7 (2/17/2006 1:01:42 PM): am i going a bit too deep for you there?
Augi (2/17/2006 1:02:50 PM): It's quite a leap from nasal spasms to broad philosophical ponderings, I'll say that.
Augi (2/17/2006 1:35:19 PM): Especially with a Dutch stranger …what time is it there anyway? Opps, lost the Wi Fi.
Augi (2/17/2006 1:49:01 PM): This has got to be the oddest converstaion (?) I have had in a long time.Het is een grappig ouderwets. Toodles
Flyingbird - (2/17/2006 1:49:24 PM): hahah ok
Flyingbird - (2/17/2006 1:49:41 PM): oh well its always nice to meet new people
Flyingbird - (2/17/2006 1:49:45 PM):
Augi (2/17/2006 1:50:33 PM): roufje7 ? Flyingbird ?
Flyingbird - (2/17/2006 1:50:47 PM): yups
Augi (2/17/2006 1:51:34 PM): okee dokee
Flyingbird - (2/17/2006 1:52:11 PM):
Augi (2/17/2006 1:55:36 PM): It can be I suppose. What is story behind roufje? and the additional 7 too I suppose.
Flyingbird - (2/17/2006 1:56:05 PM): roufje was my horse
Flyingbird - (2/17/2006 1:56:29 PM): well roufje is my horse.......although he died 5 year ago........but he stays my horse no matter what
roufje7 has signed back in. (2/17/2006 1:56 PM)

Augi (2/17/2006 1:57:22 PM): Oh, sorry to hear that. What does that name mean?
Flyingbird - (2/17/2006 2:00:02 PM): its just a name does not mean anything though he had it when i bought him
Flyingbird - (2/17/2006 2:00:05 PM):
Augi (2/17/2006 2:02:32 PM): Well there you go then
Augi (2/17/2006 2:11:55 PM): So why are you using two names ?
Augi (2/17/2006 2:21:11 PM): Well, it has been most surreal ...take care