Archive for the 'Spam' Category

22
Aug

Spam goes through the looking glass

I was getting pretty depressed about the diminishing quality of Viagra spam. There are only so many ways one can spell “Viagra” using non-alphabetic characters before it starts to feel a bit, well, cliché. But just as I had given up hope, those maverick geniuses in the unsolicited email industry delivered this gem:

Take the blue pill, and I show you how far the rabbit hole goes

Literary references in penis-pill junk mail!!! Lewis Carroll must be rolling in his grave. Or rolling halfway and getting stuck—’cause, you know, you can only roll halfway when you’re suffering from priapism.

Okay, so “…I show you how far the rabbit hole goes” is actually a reference to the (much less literary) film The Matrix. Excuse me for taking the high(-brow) road.