I’m sure that you’re a lot like me in the fact that you get quite a bit of spam e-mail. You may also be like me in the fact that you have the majority of it pretty well filtered out of your inbox, perhaps funneled into a junk folder.

I scan through that junk folder every couple of days just to make sure no legitimate emails slipped through the cracks and made their way into Spamsville. While doing so, I see my share of Nigerian money scams and pen1s en1arg3ment claims, but one subject line really caught my eye this morning… “flatulent pit viper.”

FLATULENT PIT VIPER!

I clicked. It was for discount medications delivered straight to your door.

I’m sure the subject line was generated by some script to try to beat spam filter algorithms, but nevertheless I can vividly see this miserable snake with a gas problem slithering across the jungle floor. I love it. Bravo, spammer, bravo. You’ve captured my imagination, and for that I am grateful.

But no thanks, I don’t need Cialis.

[tags]spam, viper, email, junk[/tags]

Tags: Anecdotes, Creativity