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My new hobby: Spamku

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boomerang
 
Reply Sun 25 Feb, 2007 06:07 pm
I hope this doesn't out me as mentally ill or anything but lately I have taken to devising haiku out of the spam mail headlines in my bulk mail file.

Here's today's:

Go in celluloid
Go chromatic by nutcrack
Is hill a go nymph?

I cheated just a little by combinding two (is hill and a go nymph) and by adding a question mark but they are otherwise unchanged.

Do you have some spamku to share with me?
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sozobe
 
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Reply Sun 25 Feb, 2007 06:22 pm
a cramp , circumvent
nicosia may gander
ding ! dwight in washboard

The first and last lines are split from a single subject, the middle one is extracted from another subject (entire one: a nicosia may gander be bathurst try mcknight a aloud)

I like "nicosia may gander." Could be an Emo band name, or something.
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boomerang
 
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Reply Sun 25 Feb, 2007 06:26 pm
That's beautiful, soz. Thank you!
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boomerang
 
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Reply Mon 26 Feb, 2007 09:25 am
From this morning's spam:

It's metaphoric
Her cerebellum and cake
It is fine, don't worry
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boomerang
 
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Reply Thu 1 Mar, 2007 03:20 pm
Some good stuff today:

I tuna milkman
You quickstep on marriott
Is this possible
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Tico
 
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Reply Thu 1 Mar, 2007 03:24 pm
Cool I wanna play, I wanna play! But I just deleted scads of spam mail before I opened this thread. Maybe tomorrow.

I also have a thing about the sender names. It's possible, but I really don't think there are people out there called Habibi MacDonald, or Nefrosuto Smith. Just guessing.
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boomerang
 
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Reply Thu 1 Mar, 2007 05:05 pm
Welcome, Tico! I can't wait to see your spamku.

Since I've discovered spamku I selectively delete spam so my box doesn't get overwhelmed.

I wonder if they use a random word generator to come up with those subject lines. Some of them are really fascinating.
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boomerang
 
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Reply Thu 1 Mar, 2007 05:07 pm
I don't get that many interesting names. How sad.

The best one I have right now is Buck Claudius. He sounds like a porn star but I think he wants to give me a home makeover because his subject is "renovate fashionably"
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Tico
 
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Reply Thu 1 Mar, 2007 05:38 pm
I might need someone to fill me in on haiku rules <-- poetically challenged. But here's some that have popped up since I first posted:

real Viagra
James Brown band members perform
Fish Dinner Dance
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boomerang
 
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Reply Thu 1 Mar, 2007 05:46 pm
Seeing James Brown preform the fish dinner dance would indeed be real viagra.

We play fast and loose with the rules around here but typical haiku has 5 syllables in the first line, then seven, the five again. Spamku is not typical haiku so just have fun instead!
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Thu 1 Mar, 2007 05:58 pm
<whispers - I can't play because I don't get spam yet on this computer. I might need a spam loan - but not the real thing, of course. Although I could probably use what looks like Thai spam to do some kind of arty construction. I can't report that, as for some reason a2k doesn't recognize my reports (yes, I've tried Help; it can seemingly only be fixed for a short time. I'm hoping it will be fixed more thoroughly when I get a new email purveyor)>
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boomerang
 
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Reply Fri 2 Mar, 2007 01:00 pm
A spam loan can only be made with considerable interest. Can you afford our rates?

Of course, there is always black market spam, but, you know, it's still going to cost you.

Today's entry:

Rapids palpable
A concierge at Santa
Meal sky, be by mice
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Tico
 
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Reply Fri 2 Mar, 2007 04:50 pm
mueca brava doll
explosion on thursday
alarmed cherry

today's best sender name: Zamorana Alfonso



(what's "mueca"?)
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sozobe
 
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Reply Fri 2 Mar, 2007 04:55 pm
Nice one!


Cannabis inline
industrious lyrical
hockey bullfighting

(first and last line from single spam subject, middle line inserted from another)
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sozobe
 
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Reply Fri 2 Mar, 2007 04:56 pm
This holds promise -- a loan to Osso:

chore Cycling Haggis Hurling

(Whole subject line.)
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lostnsearching
 
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Reply Sat 3 Mar, 2007 02:04 am
...
OMG this is soooooooo fun!!! Laughing
Embarrassed
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sat 3 Mar, 2007 02:39 am
Okay, given these stolen spam snippets, what can I do with them?

to play with ---
chore Cycling Haggis Hurling
explosion on thursday
Meal sky, be by mice






Me'al Haggis be
ex plos sion hurl ing on the
dappled sky at night.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sat 3 Mar, 2007 02:56 am
and welcome, lost searching...
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lostnsearching
 
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Reply Sat 3 Mar, 2007 04:43 am
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Thank you
*shuffles hair, flushing*
it's lostNsearching
with an N
oh forget it just call me Naima.
good spamkus though...
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jespah
 
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Reply Sat 3 Mar, 2007 06:09 am
That modify a
gneiss Or upward by sanford
Are economy
 

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