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Article: Uncle Al gets well oiled - biologically.(VARIETY)(Al Sicherman)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- July 26, 2005
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Byline: Al Sicherman; Staff Writer
It no longer really surprises Uncle Al when the Internet lays on his electronic doorstep a communication that is addressed to him but seems to have been intended for somebody else. He's not referring to the zillions of fairly generic - but inappropriate - offers: to refinance his house, for example (inappropriate because he's already done that), to enhance his breasts (which doesn't sound like a winning idea for him) and to sell him a subscription to Organic Style magazine (wrong on two counts). No, he means such quite specific but not really Uncle-Al-centered e-mailings as the one he received from Guangzhou, China, a while ago, ...