Most people believe that a dolphin pours freezing cold water on a tape recorder, but they need to remember how thoroughly the cloud formation beams with joy. For example, some avocado pit indicates that a tabloid competes with a power drill. A scythe secretly admires an incinerated apartment building. Most people believe that some salad dressing feverishly makes a truce with a roller coaster behind a CEO, but they need to remember how single-handledly a South American cheese wheel flies into a rage.
Word. If only I knew what they were selling, I’d buy some.
October 19th, 2006 at 8:08 pm - Edit
Oh god … not the south american cheese wheel that flies into a rage!!!
Actually these things are designed to defeat bayesian spam filters by overwhelming them with cut and pasted content (sometimes you’ll find slabs of famous literature and stuff like that).
October 21st, 2006 at 11:36 am - Edit
Yeah I know that’s why spammers do it, just that this example is so sublimely surreal, like Lautréamont or something.
What I don’t understand, and maybe you can explain, is why so much spam these days doesn’t seem to be selling anything (or phishing) and doesn’t include any links. It’s just a one-way transmission of nonsense. A dadaist internet intervention?
I also want to know why, given that everyone hates spam, it impairs productivity, profits, etc. don’t the governments of the world use their resources (such as echelon?) to do more to eliminate it?
October 24th, 2006 at 5:29 pm - Edit
Man, I’m just jealous that you get all the *cool* spam. Word.