I like to push the pram a lot

[venta]

Following something of a dirth in the intersting spam department, today I've had a small flurry of emails with great subject lines. How could you not want to read an email about "customary celebrity astor" or "dogtrot constipate agricultural" ?

All the emails are text-only, and contain just a list of words. Each one is different.

"creditor ambrosial, alkaloid befallen cavalry, bookshelf blew. caveman bamberger avery clifton
bricklay balky bridegroom. altern dick cinder bakhtiari agricola alps australia digestive
clearheaded apprehensive baku bowline. chip cleat banbury bibb arching brutal combination"

Doesn't that have a kind of poetry all of its own ?

Incidentally, for those who didn't take on board my implicit recommendation the other day, get yourself to http://www.holyghostrevival.co.uk/home.html and listen to the streamables. They're really rather good.

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Doesn't that have a kind of poetry all of its own ?

Sounds a bit like Shriekback lyrics!

(PS. Good to see my space-before-questionmark habit lives on in the blogosphere!)

[ao-lai.livejournal.com]

I hate to sound paranoid...

...But are they really text only? It looks like something to try to evade spam filters by skewing some sort of word-count test, which implies that there's a payload in there somewhere...

...Okay, maybe I am just paranoid. :)

[(Anonymous)]

I agree totally about the poetry of these emails. The 419 scams purport to come from some interesting individuals, too. My favourite was 'Rendell Wiggins'; one time I responded to a phishing email (not from my own computer) with lots of silly answers, but I gave 'Rendell Wiggins' as the account name. It was very satisfying to see that his account details had been updated.

Cathy xxx