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  • 11-30-2006, 05:27 PM
    Smulkin
    NAME THAT SPAM!! (spam goes literary)
    You remember the last brand of spam that seemed to come generated from some sort of linguistic database (wasn't me I swear :P) that read like

    "Concatenated the retreated glanced utterly. Confused were the gabanzo beans - fenestration abounded! Forthwith hens pecked mildly at the seeds of discontent . . " etc etc - just nearly random almost absurdist Donald Barthelme sort of stuff.

    I'd gotten totally NUMB to it - but today got a spam that read:

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by inbox spam
    "Now, going back to the subject of the paper - "Ill get you your cockadoodie paper,she said sullenly. He was suddenly, utterly sure that she meant to pull the knife from the wall and castrate him with it. As he rolled the wheelchair parallel to the open bedroom door, he heard the Cherokees engine shut off. So his mouth dropped open and he was frankly and honestly flabbergasted when she said: "Its not right.
    I betched about the typewriter, he thought, looking at it now and listening to the drone of the mower.
    "Now, going back to the subject of the paper - "Ill get you your cockadoodie paper,she said sullenly.




    The "cockadoodie" (bet the censor hammers that one) caught my eye for some reason and I read through it.

    I recognized it.

    It was lifted from a book! A popluar topseller etc. Is spam now auto-pasting quotes form ebooks or something?


    Insanity.


    Your mission (WITHOUT goggling it cheaters) - name the book that passage was from.

    Difficulty level 2 (ignore the Soviet judges, please).
  • 11-30-2006, 05:32 PM
    slartibartfast
    Re: NAME THAT SPAM!! (spam goes literary)
    You know what's the worst thing about you posting that?

    Now I'm going to be reading my spam...
  • 11-30-2006, 05:33 PM
    Smulkin
    Re: NAME THAT SPAM!! (spam goes literary)
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by slartibartfast
    You know what's the worst thing about you posting that?

    Now I'm going to be reading my spam...

    I work in insidious ways . . . :P
  • 11-30-2006, 06:06 PM
    xdeus
    Re: NAME THAT SPAM!! (spam goes literary)
    What is 'Misery'?

    Now where is mah chicken dinnah! :carrot:
  • 11-30-2006, 06:12 PM
    Smulkin
    Re: NAME THAT SPAM!! (spam goes literary)
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by xdeus
    What is 'Misery'?

    Now where is mah chicken dinnah! :carrot:

    Correct . . .

    Damn you, Trebek!!!!

    You'll get nothing but chicken-o-the-sea!
  • 11-30-2006, 06:18 PM
    xdeus
    Re: NAME THAT SPAM!! (spam goes literary)
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Smulkin
    You'll get nothing but chicken-o-the-sea!

    How about chicken-flavored SPAM? :chew:
  • 11-30-2006, 06:35 PM
    Smulkin
    Re: NAME THAT SPAM!! (spam goes literary)
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by xdeus
    How about chicken-flavored SPAM? :chew:


    Aw :chew: some bullion cubes!

    Or I could get some canned shredded chicken and a play-dough press and wing it.
  • 11-30-2006, 06:37 PM
    ErikH
    Re: NAME THAT SPAM!! (spam goes literary)
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by xdeus
    How about chicken-flavored SPAM? :chew:

    That might be a million-dollar idea! ;)
  • 11-30-2006, 08:31 PM
    recycling goddess
    Re: NAME THAT SPAM!! (spam goes literary)
    ah yes...misery it is! :D
  • 11-30-2006, 09:08 PM
    Ginevive
    Re: NAME THAT SPAM!! (spam goes literary)
    This is an outrage! Someone should notify Mr. King on this plagery (sp?) Not yours, but the spammer's.
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