Good news: Our zucchini plant has calmed down. We are no longer living on an all-zucchini diet ( Read more... )

My old work had a spam filter that provided a list of quarantined emails, so you could go through them and pick out any real ones. While I was there last year, I collected the best subject lines to use as my headings in the post-Cartland era. Today's is one of my favourites. It raises so many questions. Mostly variants on: What does it mean?

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Today at work I received an email from donna.casw@haemorrhoider.com with the subject line Why your ears keep ringing (and what you can do about it!). I haven't had a good piece of spam for ages. (I am intrigued by the idea of a company called haemorrhoider.com, though. What would it do, if it existed ( Read more... )

Martha Stewart sent me an email yesterday, subject line 'Glittered skeletal parts'. That's the sort of serial killer she'd be, isn't it? It certainly put Oprah's email about '3 ways to make a bold statement with coloured pants' in the shade. (The statement this woman is making would seem to be 'I really like teal', which on the face of it isn't ( Read more... )

1. I seem to be a bit out of sorts lately. Just blah. I see something and think I should write an entry about it, but don't. So maybe doing a ten-point list will clear the backlog.

( Toilet tissue illness, spammers who have lost their whimsy, lotto syndicates and that little radio I bought at the Post Office many years ago )

I love the names on spam emails. Which is good, because I get a lot of it at work. For a while, I was getting messages from names like Enchanted Q. Hatstand, which I thought was delightful. Recently they've changed to real, slightly old-fashioned names. Today I was offered the chance to buy cheap pharmaceut1cals by both Gladys Calhoun and Agnes ( Read more... )

I got some seasonal spam today: Santa's best friend is your dog. Even spammers get the festive spirit.

There is an Australian character called Quinn in the comic strip Luann at the moment. Well... he says he's Australian but he also recently claimed that Australians celebrate Thanksgiving, so I think he's from that northern part of Australia ( Read more... )

My spammers are inventing words now: Would you like to biggicize your device?, the last one asked. No, thanks, Mr Spammer, but I may appropriate your new verb next time I want to enlarge something.

Today's spam promised me that [my] watch will be screaming in luxury, which sounds unlikely, I must say. I think the fake designer watch spam got scrambled with the Viagra spam ( Read more... )

I got an email this morning from Ocogimifise whose message was entitled 'Jtapibuh enidjacyl jsipucy'.

It's like your hearts aren't in it anymore, spammers.