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A man who tries to friend me on FB and claims his school was Wellesley College is doomed from the start.

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[dagonell.livejournal.com]

There's the episode of WKRP where Herb (the self-proclaimed make-out man) meets a woman who remembers him from college and he doesn't remember her. When he finally gets her into bed, she casually mentions that she used to be a he and Herb freaks. The episode is hysterical if you know the characters.
-- Dagonell

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

I saw that episode, and it was hilarious.

I was mostly commenting, in an oblique sort of way, on the warnings to Jane that the guy might of been legit. I think it's 100%-epsilon that he's not, in that Jane would have had a clue and looked more carefully if he might have been.

One gets this sort of thing a lot. These days, it takes the form "you can't believe what you read on the internet." The point is that people are really good at telling what's real and what's not, and generally don't need the cautionary tales. For every person taken in by a Nigerian bank president, there are a gazillion who laugh and point.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

I don't think that most of the commentators were "warnings" -- I think they were sympathetic and/or academic discussions and piling-ons, for the most part. These sorts of things often go for the long-shot devil's advocate positions.