Paul Bunyan vs. the Spambot (with thanks to BoingBoing)

[tevarin]

"Naturally, just getting Paul Bunyan online was already no mean feat. There was no broadband available in the remote areas of the woods where they'd been working, so the first thing he had to do was string optical cable from the nearest T1 line, which was clear down in St. Paul. For anybody but Paul Bunyan, that would have been near impossible, but ol' Paul just ordered a couple flatbeds of the finest glass windows Minnesota had to offer, chewed'em all up in a single mouthful, and drew'em out between his teeth to spin three hundred miles of perfect fiber optics. Then he just coiled it all up in a loop, and walked all the way into town, stringing that cable all the way. So getting online wasn't a real problem."

http://www.vivtek.com/fiction/tale_spambot.html

I remember a book of folk tales I had as a kid, with Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill and Johnny Appleseed. The author here has the Paul Bunyan archetype down pretty solid, and the story's worth telling.