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Wishy Washy
Level 1: 10 points
Alltime Score: 541 points
Last Logged In: April 11th, 2019


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Spam poetry by Wishy Washy

November 21st, 2007 10:54 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Create a spoem.

Finally, a task that lets me make use of all the spam email I receive!

I'm not much of a poet, but I thought I should give this a try. First of all, I wanted to write a poem that expressed my feelings over the amount of spam that I receive. Second, I wanted to try to make use of as many spam message as possible. Third, I wanted to use "real" spam messages as opposed to the typical Nigerian scam email. Scam email tends to be pretty coherent (as far as spam goes) so it would be too easy to pick out phrases/words to use in my poem. I also decided to ignore the paragraphs of text that sometimes appear at the end of a spam message. The ones they add to confuse spam filters.

Yes, I wanted to make this somewhat of a challenge in addition to my meager poetic skills.


Today's haul of source material? 297 spam messages!
Also, I noticed that I get spam in all kinds of languages I don't even speak. Bonjour mon amie....


Anyways, after actually reading 145 spam messages I picked out 16 spam messages. One for the title, and the rest for the "body". That's right, the title of my poem as well as each line come from a different spam message. I haven't added any extra text or punctuation or anything like that (well, except for the "Ode to Spam" part of the title).



So here goes:





Ode to Spam: Not for oversmart people

Everyone wants
To claim your prize,


If you have tried
and nothing worked
read this


time waste

you are aged

lose your weight


Say NO


Never lose
and Don't miss
and never give up...


assist your body in burning


you'll dig the rest, I bet!
so why dont you?

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(no subject)
posted by Tøm on November 21st, 2007 11:00 AM

I'm going to be singing this to myself later...


Everyone want, to claim your prize, do doo doooo......

(no subject)
posted by Mark Vader on November 21st, 2007 11:21 AM

Beautiful. Spoetry never seemed so possible.

145 Spam messages?
posted by Spidere on November 22nd, 2007 5:26 PM

That takes stamina.

(no subject)
posted by Wishy Washy on November 22nd, 2007 7:14 PM

After a while, they all began to look alike.... :-)

Spoem FTW ^_^
posted by Dead Sexy on December 18th, 2007 5:04 PM

aye.. The spam begins to make your eyes hurt after a while..
When your brain goes to mush.

You can still make a rhyme if you really push.

But before long Sploosh!



...^_^...
DS