Every now and then, I like to clear out my bulk mail box and trash the spam. But it's getting so genteel now! Case in point: A subject line reading "Receive a significant discount on your medications" is followed by another reading "Be given a considerable markdown on your medicine." How thoughtful, you think. Then you're totally ripe for the picking by the time the quaint "These tiptop goods are provided at lovely prices" note arrives. Damn! I don't know anyone who doesn't appreciate tiptop goods. And at such lovely prices, who can resist?
I don't know how Bukowski wrote drunk. I'm tempted to write another story featuring the spam sender names, but the four ounces of beer I've already downed are quashing my creativity and addling my pate. (Yes, I'm a lightweight.) I know there's got to be a great story about Chang Boswell, Roderick Shindle, Sean Tulip, Jimmy Polisky, and Thaddeus Cartagena but...I got nothin'. Sean "Tiptop" Tulip?
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Apparently it was just me having trouble. I had been planning on observing that "tiptop" is probably going to have no trouble getting through most spam filters, but it hardly seems worth the buildup now, does it? Oh well.
It's the best of both worlds--the tiptop spam still ended up with all the other spam in my bulk folder, but spam filters are also encouraging the spammers to work on their writing skills. Judicious deployment of quaint adjectives is so much more charming than the replacement of a W with two V's or an O with an 0, or the insertion of punctuation, like Ora-ng.e.
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