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Ever the optimist, Patrick Murcia finds the bright side of the internet's underside:

Spam Proje©t
or
Does Ur Cock Hard Enough? 

Spam is the bane of my daily electronic experience.  Individually a mild annoyance, cumulatively they amount to hours lost to highlighting and deleting.  And as laws and Internet security systems become more stringent, spammers have had to become more creative in developing schemes to get their shit through to me.  This includes not only using false and protean email aliases, but also employing clever linguistic tricks to fool the hapless spam filters that today guard every corporate email server (I can’t help picturing the smiling, vacant sentries charged with guarding the king’s effeminate son, who just wanted to sing, in “Monty Python’s The Holy Grail.”).  In the subject field of their emails, spammers will often use symbols or slight misspellings so that any human reader can easily see what the message intends to convey:  “C$ALIS,” “Mortagge ratee approval,” “Peniss Enlargement Breakthrough!”  Some spammers, however, in their exploitation of these constrictive parameters, have (wittingly or not) created a new brand of haiku—terse, nonsensical, but often poetic zingers that are perhaps intended to pique the bemused reader into opening the obnoxious email hocking sexual enhancements, porn, prescription drugs, or pre-approved mortgage financing products.

After deleting thousands of these messages, I realized I was throwing away a vast and curious collection of found poetry.  Fortunately, my poor electronic housekeeping skills allowed me to retrieve most of these from my deleted items folder.

The following represent actual subject headings from emails received from November 1, 2004 to the present:

succubus hungary
ashmen shipmen
via-ggra is Lousy ketchup


those are real amateurs Caroline
gedra carrol
Boing...(the sound produced by a little pill)


C$ALIS soft now maurice
cricket wharves
hardcast arwakhi
propriety sanicle
algorithm diachronic
culprit beowulf
calvary impulse
beefy
huge cumshot Jose
dogmatic bestowal
cowlick lumpy
tetravalent digest
dumb dorcas
gam yore
bayreuth callous
histology fanfold
xanax coulomb
durango bogging
divine kenyon
blood kaskaskia
bacilli azimuthal

willowy tiptoe
pharyngeal t. goalkeeper
do you have "small" problem? Chasm

whinny beryllium
valium needlework
i finally found you

edwardine covariate
flog
expulsion adagio
extendible psychosomatic
dilatation mooney
IT WILL CHANGE YOU-insolvable chesapeake contrariwise

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