All these scam e-mails remind me of a story from my time as a TA, teaching a low-level biology lab.

So the students' project throughout the semester was to do fitness stuff, record their results and whatnot, write a journal, then give a short presentation. Now one girl got up and started doing her presentation, having chosen the "workout" option. Her initial situps done in a minute was 70, push-ups to exhaustion was 30ish. And her initial time recorded for the mile run was 4:30. Side note, she was very clearly not an olympic-level athlete.

Now, she proceeded to describe her mile time's change in time over the course of the 6-week period. She said she looked up what a reasonable goal for her age and whatnot was, and found it was about 3 minutes. She said she was "disappointed" because she was only about to get down to 3:30.

If you don't understand what's so funny, the world record is 3:43 for men and 4:12 for women.