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Friday Fun Thread for November 13, 2026

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My favourite take on the alleged Jensen Huang honeypot operation so far:

I met my wife at a Popeye’s in Skokie, Illinois. I was in Skokie doing standup, she was in Skokie for reasons that she’s never explained. She walked up to me, and — in heavily-accented, broken English — said “You Jeff Mau? I blow you. I blow you now — hurry, let’s go!”

That’s not the type of thing that normally happens to me. I’m no troll, but it’s not like I commonly get unsolicited offers of oral sex. And while this woman — my future wife, Jane Baseball — was what rural folk might call “barn fodder”, it still seemed strange. But she was insistent: “Let’s go! Blow time!” she wailed. “Blow time now, get you things! Hurry!” I honestly went with her mostly to get her to stop yelling about blow jobs in public.

After receiving what can only be described as a “surly” blow job next to the dumpster behind a Popeye’s, my future wife yelled “Okay — the end! You marry me now!” When I expressed shock, she only yelled louder: “I BLOW YOU, NOW WE MARRY! LET’S GO, GET YOU THINGS!” When I tried to explain that that’s not how it works in America, she shrieked “I AMERICA! I AMERICA, BORN HERE! FLEENT CEE-TEE, MEE-SHEE-GAN!” I considered pointing out that people from Flint don’t call it “Flint City”, but I was also kind of afraid of seeming racist.

Does this kind of thing actually happen? The subtle approach doesn’t always work either as a honey trap, you got to research your target better. For me, it depends on what kind of food they show up with. If they know my taste they’ll be let right in.

I wish I was important enough to be the target of a honeypot attempt.

Does it matter if she has blue hair and the scales err?

It matters to ME.

Beggars can’t be choosers!

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