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Posted
12 March 2007 @ 10pm

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spam subjects poem

She will love you more than any other man –
just talked to him.
The narcotic analgesics are very similar.

Separate yourself from other men.
Anthony Hopkins
is so familiar.

Are there any precautions and side-effects?

Didn’t understand it;
can’t be a lover anymore.
These girls are all alone.

What did we do to make it happen?

[Addendum: I apologize for not explaining how these are constructed. I go into my spam folder and read through as many subject lines as I can take (roughly 500-1000), choose the ones I find most intriguing, then use each one as a discrete line of the poem, only adding punctuation and line breaks. Try it for yourself. It's fun!]


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11 Comments

Posted by
the jof » Spam Content Poem
13 March 2007 @ 2am

[...] by: this, I dig into my boundless spam box and picked one at [...]


Posted by
JohnS
13 March 2007 @ 4am

I get some of those spam subjects, too. :(


Posted by
j david
13 March 2007 @ 9am

brilliant!!!

/gives H the award for best spam recipe


Posted by
mice
13 March 2007 @ 6pm

Was the subject the springboard for the poem or did they mail you that all readymade?


Posted by
stubsy
14 March 2007 @ 11am

I think we must be on the same spamming lists, do you get those ones where they have copied a verse out of a book or something totally of topic.

Then at the bottom theres a link to buy viagra.


Posted by
David Levasseur
14 March 2007 @ 9pm

Hello I am a Nigerian Banker
selling Cheap viagra
congratulations you win
This is not spam


Posted by
Poedhz
17 March 2007 @ 7am

You must have taken a plenty of time to read through all of them. Brilliant indeed.

I wonder, though, how Anthony Hopkins can be thrown in the mix?


Posted by
Spam subjects poem | [pu2]: the simpler story
17 March 2007 @ 7am

[...] many varieties of spam mail that someone managed to create a poem out of the subject lines. LINK: spam subjects poem via [...]


Posted by
Jean-Luc Picard
18 March 2007 @ 8am

Well constructed; we could all make spam poems!


Posted by
son dao
21 March 2007 @ 8pm

oh wow! this is so funny and cool. i will have to try it…


Posted by
zenny
6 April 2007 @ 12pm

I have actually blogged about something like this. small blogosphere!

Zenny
name not associated with your cat (amazing coincidence!)