Spam As Folk Art for 2006 October 30

Lots of spam advertises diet pills, mortgages, porn, junk stocks, etc. You can never be too rich, too thin, or too orgasmic. But a few really disgusting specimens advertise free green cards (proof of legal US permanent residency), or an HIV conference:

The first five hundred (500) people to tender their application letter will be given the Anti-Retrovirus drugs (ARV) free.

So I give thanks that most spam only appeals to our greed, libido, and negative body image.

• Daily Free Things

  See, this is what I'm talking about. Casting the wide net.

• Re: born or ever existed,

  Again, the shotgun approach to market segmentation.

• Late Brother samuel Doe

  The topic of the book, My Brother Sam Is Dead: By The Way, I Could Use Your Bank Account Info by Mariam Abacha.

• From: morton neighbors
  Subject: medical update

  NEED TO CUT DOWN ON THE SALT

• office xp sale harpy

  Now, now, there's no need to talk like that about the Business Software Association.

• Clever Island

  Here on Clever Island / Our house is made of spam.

• Football not good.

  Oh, come on, I hear great things about Friday Night Lights.

• Cozening S. Seventeens

  What's worse, cuddling with seventeen-year-olds or with copies of Seventeen?

• former combat pilot strikes it rich

  George Clooney was in that movie!

• The limitation of the Photon Hypothesis

  It's fake! It has "faux" right in the name!

• Like being in my 20s again

  Oh, I'm so sorry for you.

• standard industrial classification).

  Electronic mail, Unsolicited, Commercial, Ineffective, Amusing.

• get the piece of paper on the wall you've always wanted

  A Magic Eye?

• "you asked for proof well here it is" right next to "I'm tired of working so damn hard all the time."

  I don't remember signing up for that email-based SimCorporation MMORPG.

• Expansion of the Gospel right next to Without Eve, there would have been no Adam. Viagra for both!

  Man does not live on bread alone....he also needs Viagra! Let them eat Viagra!

• Soft for Macintosh

  I'm inordinately fond of Apple myself.

• For our collective interest and benefit.

  My five-year plan: become a communist!

• The Blonde and the Sheep.

  Hi, ho, the derrio...