Spam As Folk Art for 2010 March

(Leonard) One Day, I Would Enact a Commercial Loan: My weblog gets quite a few spam comments for financial services, written in a stilted style and thesaurized vocabulary that reminds me of a young child playing dress-up, or a space alien in a rubber human-shaped suit. Some gems:

Some time ago, I did need to buy a good house for my corporation but I didn't have enough money and couldn't buy anything. Thank goodness my fellow proposed to take the loans at reliable bank. Therefore, I acted so and was happy with my commercial loan.

This is known that cash makes people free. But how to act when one has no cash? The only one way is to get the mortgage loans and just credit loan.

(Sumana) Zap!: Today's charming spam must have gotten through the filter because of its awesome subject:

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The text came from Danger in Deep Space by Carey Rockwell, 1953, one of The Tom Corbett Space Cadet Stories. Excerpt:

Connel followed Roger and Tom to the control deck. Loring and Mason were still in the positions they were in when Tom had fired his paralo-ray. Connel took Tom's gun and switched to the neutralizer. He fired twice and the two men rose shakily to their feet. Connel faced them, his eyes burning.

"I'm going to say very little to you two space-crawling rats!" snapped Connel.

Illustrations include "I know we're going to be sent to the prison asteroid and we deserve it," said Loring and The jet cab raced along the highway to Venusport.