Wow, Media Orchard is old. Did we say “typewriter”?
Anyhoo — to complete the sentence:
If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, we think they’d spend most of their time composing the subject lines of all the junk e-mail in our inbox.
Some of our recent favorites:
may wrongful be silver
I’ll cage after winery
Re: That cough by caffeine
She fiery that monomial extrema
it’s rural, it’s sax
wigwam try Mauricio, and steroid
Re: be Edna, penthouse and spook
RE: titrate depth
Re: Gregs You should need this info
Mr. Lulu Peple Jumbo
From Frank!
Kirk V-take
FW: Be damnation may residue axob
RE: I’d arsenic as grandchild
RE: On thyroid and underclassman
Hey monkeys — we’re still waiting for the complete works of William Shakespeare. Keep typing.
In the meantime, we’ll try to appreciate your spam poetry for what it is — though we don’t plan to create a blog about it.
And if you’re wondering why so much of your junk e-mail has this simian characteristic, it’s because combining random words in this manner helps spammers squeak through Bayesian filters. More here.
Technorati tags: Spam, Writing, Poetry
As I told one of my SFSU students once: “Three monkeys sharing a Speak-and-Spell for five minutes.”
Scott,
You need to put a warning up about these things at the top of the post. Do you have any idea what it feels like to blow doughnut and coffee out of your nose? I do!
If just one reader blows breakfast out their nose, I feel like I’m doing my job, Tim. Thank you…