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:
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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).
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You know what's the worst thing about you posting that?
Now I'm going to be reading my spam...
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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
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What is 'Misery'?
Now where is mah chicken dinnah! :carrot:
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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!
Re: NAME THAT SPAM!! (spam goes literary)
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Originally Posted by Smulkin
You'll get nothing but chicken-o-the-sea!
How about chicken-flavored SPAM? :chew:
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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.
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Originally Posted by xdeus
How about chicken-flavored SPAM? :chew:
That might be a million-dollar idea! ;)
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ah yes...misery it is! :D
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This is an outrage! Someone should notify Mr. King on this plagery (sp?) Not yours, but the spammer's.
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Oddly, I got some kind of SPAM like that in my e-mail today! Reading your post is the first time I'd heard about it... Here's the e-mail. I think it must be some sort of D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) or RPG reference (as it says at much at the end). Seeing as I'm a nerdy gamer-type myself, I find it pretty amusing, but have no idea why it got sent do me. What do you think? Is it like the "Misery" one you got, Smulkin?
--Kim
Subject line of e-mail: "And even as its claws sunk into a man's shoulders, even as it tore through yet another one of my friends, I looked at its red-rimmed eyes and just had to wonder: had it just been crying?"
"He also describes other Owlbears nearby, but presently out of reach:"Sometimes, you hear an Owlbear cub scream, as they kill it to make the castle safe. Email Updatesenter your email Then, thanks largely to the popularity of a fictional work of magical high fantasy called, "The Lord of the Rings" players began to introduce more fantastical elements into their battle simulations. They just find it very tasty.
Corner BoxFor this training, each player takes three six-sided dice.
A hostile power that twists bone, robs children of their youth, and turns neighbors against neighbors. Let's try something a little different. "We creep up and observe the humans, making an attack formation.
and has a pile of half painted plastic and metal miniatures taunting him from his shelves.
Those who know nothing of it live in blissful submission to its machinations, playing their part and fading away.
Excerpt from "Gothic Worlds"Demetrius stepped quietly over the body of the fallen skeleton.
Do they live or work in the same building?
A soul survivor remains on Phobos, a lone individual who must fight the forces of Hell itself. There is a cold, inhuman order to the world.
These Owlcubs joined the Owlbears in the Imperialist Society. All those who are broken together are trapped on a single fault line and are carried along as it expands.
"RPGs are generally meant to simulate dramatic adventure stories.
Are they far-flung but linked by communication or shared interests? Why are they facing the same horror? Why did they want to be buried away from their home? Excerpt from "Lord Knows I Don't Begrudge Her It"The FamilyThe first thing that the players must determine is the nature of the family itself.
Machines stir from quiescence, propelled by evil.
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Hm.. that was a good book.
I never got any spam like that.
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Originally Posted by Shelby
I never got any spam like that.
I'll send you some of mine.
I used to save snippets like that in a .TXT file I kept on my desktop and then try to reformulate them into really weird poetry....but the TXT file got ginormous and I gave up on it.
