Mostly I ignore spam, but I love it when the “random word” subject lines create a joyous concept. Such as today’s effort: geosynchronous taxidermist. Now there’s a speciality!
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19 June 2007 in Internet, Language, Notes by Stilgherrian | 7 comments
Mostly I ignore spam, but I love it when the “random word” subject lines create a joyous concept. Such as today’s effort: geosynchronous taxidermist. Now there’s a speciality!
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19 June 2007 at 10:05 pm
quadrapop
hey, I saw a website once a while back where all the text was generated from subject lines from such spam… I seem to remember there being artwork with it - cartoon style crossed with 19thC etching collage…
20 June 2007 at 10:23 am
Richard
I think Dr Alice Gorman is the closest thing we’ve got to a ‘geosynchronous taxidermist’:
http://zoharesque.blogspot.com
25 July 2007 at 3:58 pm
Alice Gorman
I completely love this! Can I use it?
26 July 2007 at 10:50 am
Stilgherrian
Dr Gorman, it would be an honour to see it in print attached to your name, as you are obviously a most eminent Geosynchronous Taxidermist! As we discussed in email, I do want to see where it’s used, though!
08 August 2007 at 7:26 pm
zzkx
The furious hydrocarbon clockwatcher…
11 August 2007 at 5:44 am
Stilgherrian
@zzkx: Thanks for the excellent pointer! I just realised who you are, too… silly me. I will reply to your email this weekend.