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29 December 2005

SPAM SPAM SPAM i go to my gmail SPAM box and there's 1) SPAM e-mails do i want to see SPAM e-mails NO! [well maybe when there's funny names like 'pinto brada' and 'masato boss' and hilarious shite like penis growth patches i mean picture that--some dude walking around with a PATCH ON HIS WILLY! haha] but then in the SPAM box there's also 2) RECIPES USING SPAM! that's right ALWAYS TEXT ADS for RECIPES USING SPAM salty screwy 'meat' [?] in a tin recipes which NO ONE WANTS TO SEE! [and i'm a vegetarian] am i RIGHT? does this happen TO YOU!? [does google not have more sense than this or is it a joke?]

*phew*

Thank you for your time.

post by: shane at: 00:33 | 11 comments

I love spam subject lines. Today I got this:

+D 14 Dec 28 John the road to the stars travel through Replica Rolex Watches

I thought that was pretty great.

posted by cmonkey 29 December | 00:44

the road to the stars travel through Replica Rolex Watches

beauty!

Savory Spam Crescents - Bake 12-15 minutes or until golden brown

not so much.

[i keep reading "...28 John" as "John 28." sounds vaguely biblical. bonus points!]

posted by shane 29 December | 01:43

I actually think it's a joke. A joke from google. (But I bet they still get money from Spam^TM)

I had this recipe in my spam folder (which I've never even opened before!):

Vineyard Spam Salad - Combine grapes, spam, peapods and onions in large bowl.

Sounds pretty good - if you leave out the Spam.

Also, for the record, my favorite spam header from the current batch that's in there:

Mystify your families with one of our great pieces of top luxurywear!

posted by taz 29 December | 02:32

The only ingredient in spam is spam.

posted by Edible Energy 29 December | 03:13

Spam Hash Browns Serves 8

argh.

posted by shane 29 December | 09:16

I love the random-phrase generator spam! I delete it, but in the new year, I'm going to write them all down and create a spastic free-verse poem that will be used in curing schizophrenia. (Probably mine actually, after tracking them for months...)

posted by Lipstick Thespian 29 December | 16:28

I actually wrote down some sender names and the subject lines from some spam I recently got because I found them so amusing:

from: Raimo Borth, re: lemony hibiscus

from: Alexius Carmack, re: bark chase

from: EvanBigga, re: MakeYourself

I think I'm going to use Alexius Carmack as my pseudonym from now on.

posted by Specklet 29 December | 18:12

I just dumped this one:

from: Crosby Saltsider, re: Hestia, try federate

Why couldn't my parents have had the foresight to name me Crosby Saltsider?

posted by bmarkey 30 December | 01:21

i think i'll steal one of specklet's and change my name to Raimo. last name, i guess, but first name is tempting too:

shane raimo!

hmmm...

raimo raimo! [?]

posted by shane 30 December | 08:28

I think we should spam the randoms by using boring bland names and equally bland subject lines, i.e. Jane Smith, eat your vegetables. Or maybe John Johnson, Call your mother.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 30 December | 16:30

[i secretly collect spam too. the kind that comes in letters, not in a tin.]

posted by shane 30 December | 17:41

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