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SPAM : It's The New Poetry! You know, it's not like I sit and actually read the text of SPAM e-mail I receive, most of which is (blessedly) filtered out by the SPAM filters I use.... However, I've been occasionally catching glimpses of some very strangely amusing text in a lot of them. I don't mean just the "random words" that spammers will flood a mail with (to try to poison your Bayesian SPAM filter by having it "learn" these innocuous words as SPAM) - stuff like

"absent decorous reflectance mukden bluish tibia indianapolis candlelit vaunt abscissae don erik bookie shrew"...

blah blah blah etc. etc. Nor do I mean the interesting and yet annoying SPAM technique of word-munging (changing letters to numerals, adding spaces, etc.):

A prestigiou5 d e gree could help you advance persona11y and professionally. Ca l l now to ask any questions you've got, and receive the answers +hat just might change your life.

No, what I mean is stuff that is almost - well, poetry! Maybe surreal and unintended poetry, but, well.... For my very first example:

I heard someone said the fat on human could help the floating in the swimming pool. I am thi.n.king what encourages the owner of the fat to work form the changing room to the pool.

Sometimes these phrases seem like they might have been copied from a book, article, web site or other written work - but the way the phrase excerpts come out is truly bizarre. And, yes, the spammers are doing this as yet another way (like the lists of words) to poison your Bayesian SPAM filters by including nearly "real" phrases or text - they don't care if you don't want their mail of course, they'll do anything to try to cheat their way through. Just thought I'd collect some interesting "Surreal SPAM Text" samples here in this category as I see them. Don't expect any of them to make sense of course!