While we're on the topic of obscenity, I want to start an informal contest for most amusing spam subject header. Like a lot of people I get dozens of spams per day, the most recent having to do with increasing the size of my penis, but nearly all of them are by non-English-speaking drones who are just copying and pasting text from phrasebooks and from each other. So when a spammer comes up with something original and funny, I think it's worth posting. If that's not enough justification, consider the phrase Any [comparative-modifier] and [future-or-conditional-sentence] as an example of a grammatical construction of the sort that has regained currency in the linguistics literature.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Any bigger and I'd be in the circus
While we're on the topic of obscenity, I want to start an informal contest for most amusing spam subject header. Like a lot of people I get dozens of spams per day, the most recent having to do with increasing the size of my penis, but nearly all of them are by non-English-speaking drones who are just copying and pasting text from phrasebooks and from each other. So when a spammer comes up with something original and funny, I think it's worth posting. If that's not enough justification, consider the phrase Any [comparative-modifier] and [future-or-conditional-sentence] as an example of a grammatical construction of the sort that has regained currency in the linguistics literature.
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Simon,
Here is a small sampling of spam subjects from recent messages that I have received. There are plenty more where these came from.
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slow scooby snack
I so hibbing
detonation deadpan
YO sir, your ramrod is really small
Gott sei Dank Passwort
The kunkletown he helmville
pull viscous
good microscopi
by flandreau whom batesland
apparel absenteeism clergymen
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Philip
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