WTF is up with Spam these days?!

When did spam get so eloquent?

These bizarre messages keep popping up, eluding the Gmail spam filters with freakish literature. It sounds like it has been written by an insane English professor.

"Muffed at it several times?"

Ipromise to let you know myself the very moment the matter is settled. Taking the case, he heldit against his nostrils and muffed at it several times.

But he denied the remotest acquaintancewith the man.

Here, while Vancechanged from evening clothes to a plain suit, Heath did some necessarytelephoning.

A few words passed between them, andtogether they walked out through a side door.

Ah, well, murmured Vance, we may be speaking of two quite differentsibyls, dont y know.

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[chip]

I could explain, but npr has done all the work. Heard this a few weeks ago.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5624749

[Dino]

Ahhhh, thanks Chip for the link. Fascinating stuff.

Well, there you have thevillain of the piece.
That musta been up near the Domdaniel cafe. Lending Christmas presents from your best girl, was you? Burns stared helplessly at the Sergeant, and then at Gracie Allen.
Ipromise to let you know myself the very moment the matter is settled. Taking the case, he heldit against his nostrils and muffed at it several times.
But he denied the remotest acquaintancewith the man.

[chip]

Indeed. Exactly what I was thinking. It WAS probably up near the Domdaniel cafe.

And precisely why I used the throwaway email address on here. (Most blogs let you turn off the display of the email addresses in comments, even if requires the email address. Does typepad not allow that?) The email I posted I have not checked in at least 2 years. I've been 99% spam free with my real email address by never posting it anywhere. My wife's got out somehow, and for a while she was getting a lot of these. They are so transparently spam that you wonder that anyone would open them. The only ones that come close to tempting are those that have a curent news item comment in the headline, and you wonder (the first couple of times) if it's a real email from someone you should remember but don't. My practice if in doubt is to unplug the network cable, then open it, so that no server is pinged that I have a live address. That multiplies it ike crazy.

Congrats on the job, by the way!