This is shear poetry

[banquo's_bumble_puppy]

this part part of a spam email that I recieved this morning

"Furthermore, an usually spartan light bulb gets stinking drunk, and an earring pours freezing cold water on a soggy tornado. When you see a tattered minivan, it means that a movie theater related to a grizzly bear gets stinking drunk. A hairy defendant is flabby."

wonderful stuff

[Nicolas]

Shear poetry, is that when you tear the book into pieces?

[banquo's_bumble_puppy]

pretty much

[tofu]

Yeah, it is nice actually. I like the imagery. The light bulb obviously represents a person. It's a person with enormous potential, in the form of the light that a light bulb can give. "This little light of mine" and all that. Very clever of the author.

It's also a spartan light bulb. Minimalist. Frugal. The exact opposite of slovenly and wasteful. Clearly, the subject of this poem is someone with character and potential that we should admire.

And yet, in the very next stanza he gets "stinking drunk" - so it's as if to say that he has wasted that potential. Thrown it all away. And there's also some interesting weather-related imagery. The freezing rain, the "soggy" tornado. Those are external hardships. We can't control the weather, so we might say, "hey that part isn't his fault." But see, it all started when he threw away his potential light, abandoned his clean, spartan lifestyle, and got stinking drunk.

So I think that the poem is telling us that while we may blame the universe for our problems, our fortunes are much more directly related to our choices and decisions.

Thanks for sharing.

[Nicolas]

That, or it is a random sentence generator.

[tofu]

*snicker*

[ToSeek]

One I received today at my office email address, something that rarely happens:

The food wasn't that bad, but the lamb souvlaki was a little chewy. What returned was a small bowl of icecream, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and jelly worms. Running the programme from a different location reports the programme is running in that location. What returned was a small bowl of icecream, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and jelly worms. This show is harsh, but look at the circumstances.
The usual morning shinanigans followed by a gunky drive to the airport yielded a highly efficient Park'n'Jet scheme.
The future of the human race is wrapped up with the few people floating around in space.
but how do they compare on speed with the other browsers?
everyone knows greyhound.
occurs, then every day. it seems short-sighted. Most of the time this works just fine, but sometimes it's nice to know you can definately get on that bus, and not waste an hour in a depot making sure.
His rapid response was that he was also a compulsive liar. The future of the human race is wrapped up with the few people floating around in space. His rapid response was that he was also a compulsive liar. Once at the bus depot, I had a rediculous case of sense-of-direction-loss.
We are evacuated dinnerless, and without half our Lpints.
The obvious wording accompanying this "we care, we care, we really wish you'd pickup your stuff so we don't have to care, we don't care, get your junk out of our airport". but when a user runs the programme they click a shortcut.
How about a little registry editing to stop that?
All you need on the client side is Java and a web browser. The middle of the plane there's a bump in the isle where something connecting the two wings goes through the cabin.
There's a lot of things to spend money on there, and a lot of things you can do for yourself.
but how do they compare on speed with the other browsers? This show is harsh, but look at the circumstances. Eventually the cylons revolted and there was much waring. lets just say it didn't work quite as planned. This was much more like a typical show in any other of Canada's citys.
This allows them to constantly make money of the picture. but when a user runs the programme they click a shortcut. The middle of the plane there's a bump in the isle where something connecting the two wings goes through the cabin.

The writer's despair over the bump in the aisle in the middle of the plane always brings a tear to my eye.

[eugenek]

Written by a Vogon, perhaps?

[tofu]

I did a search for a line from toseek's spam and got this hit:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lse/4667

Note the line about the cylons revolting.

A lot of the text is the same, but of course it's in a different order. Probably the same spammer, or at least using the same database of text. Facinating.

I wonder who these spammers are. Do they wake up early in the morning or are they lazy and that's why they have to send spam for a livng.

[Frog march]

How is it spam? what does it mean?

[Swift]

I have noticed this things from spam e-mails where the actual message is a picture (BUY VIAGRA STOCK NOW FROM NIGERIANS!) so the anti-spam software can't get it. I suspect that some e-mail programs will not accept an e-mail with just a picture, so they throw in some random text. The other thing is they are so weird, maybe they hope people will stop and read them and thus look at the ad.

[tofu]

Well, another reason for the random text is that corporate-type email spam filters work like antivirus programs. That is, they look for patterns. So, if the spammer sent out 1 million identical messages then one or two people would mark those messages as spam, and the spam filter would automatically delete the rest. So the spammers randomly change the email and now there is no pattern for a filter to catch. Every message looks different.

[mugaliens]

I did a search for a line from toseek's spam and got this hit:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lse/4667

Note the line about the cylons revolting.

A lot of the text is the same, but of course it's in a different order. Probably the same spammer, or at least using the same database of text. Facinating.

I wonder who these spammers are. Do they wake up early in the morning or are they lazy and that's why they have to send spam for a livng?

Yes, commander.