{"id":1472,"date":"2007-06-23T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T06:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2007-06-23T06:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-23T06:46:00","slug":"fun-with-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/the-internet-is-fun\/fun-with-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once or twice a year, I dip into my Gmail spam filter to see what nonsense has been blocked from my inbox. It&#8217;s usually a disappointing jaunt, fraught with messages containing naught but Chinese characters and penis-enlargement patch testimonies, but sometimes you get a gold nugget of absolute random weirdness, and you think, <i>Wow, who gets paid to sit around and string these words together?<\/i> Because I happen to think that might be somewhat of an awesome way to spend the day. <\/p>\n<p>Behold this message I got hawking some Canadian pharmacy&#8217;s products; the body of the e-mail was the following gonzo poetry, while an attached image advertised the pharmaceutical wares:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Abruptly a stone caught his heel and he stumbled, breaking his eyes<br \/>away from the dark horseman. Specifies whether incoming calls (from<br \/>other DTEs of the CUG) to this link are barred. ImTOO MP4 Video Converter 3. TXT Description not available RHYTHM. <\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;properties&#8221; menu item should possibly be on the &#8220;View&#8221; menu<br \/>instead of the &#8220;Tools&#8221; menu. I&#8217;ll hold my tongue, but I will not &#8211; I<br \/>dare not &#8211; help you. To tell thee whence thou cam&#8217;st, of whom deriv&#8217;d, Were shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless. But the daughter is ripe for<br \/>marriage and the guest is a bachelor.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll hold my tongue, but I will not &#8211; I dare not &#8211; help you. He could<br \/>smell the trees and the trodden grass. Four of them are called &#8216;Cardinal&#8217; virtues, and the remaining three are called &#8216;Theological&#8217; virtues. Nikitsky knew he could not kill a man with impunity.<\/p>\n<p>Perrin very nearly groaned. As the two approached, the taunter saw<br \/>them and waved. The sky was clear. Smartwheels use sonar, laser rangefinding, and<br \/>millimeter-wave radar to identify mufflers and other debris before<br \/>you even get honed about them.<\/p>\n<p>These identifiers are, in effect, reserved except as described in the<br \/>following list. Abruptly a stone caught his heel and he stumbled,<br \/>breaking his eyes away from the dark horseman.<\/p>\n<p>You have nothing to say. Pomysl sobie &#8211; kazde zycie musi sie kiedys skonczyc.<br \/>I&#8217;ve run into many problems with PropertySheet &#8211; it always seems to<br \/>come down to doing things at the right time. And now it&#8217;s all different.<br \/>Batard retreated, for twenty feet or so, with a fiendish levity in<br \/>his bearing that Leclere could not mistake. I am using my PCMCIA Modem further on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I Googled bits and pieces of this to see if portions were cribbed from famous works. I found some of it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-b3.com\/WoT\/WoT06\/Chapter54.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and some of it <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smartwheels\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, some of it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwideschool.org\/library\/books\/lit\/romance\/Scaramouche\/chap9.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and some of it <a href=\"http:\/\/lib.udm.ru\/lib\/PROZA\/RYBAKOW\/rybakov_kortik_engl.txt\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Looks like a bunch of stuff ripped from Wikipedia articles and online books. So, ostensibly, someone sat around and culled all this stuff from online sources, adding a bit of personalized spam goodness to round it out. Amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once or twice a year, I dip into my Gmail spam filter to see what nonsense has been blocked from my inbox. 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