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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2006-08-31 10:29 am

Spamified Kim.

The spammers who contact me two or three times a day offering unmissable investment opportunities just sent me a communication topped and tailed with big wodges of chopped-up Kipling. How literate of them! 

young Mohammedan woman, and begged a rank cigar of the brand that theythou eaten?' He fumbled in his bosom and drew forth a worn, woodenof nights; but he looked more carefully, and, hand on amulet, drew his3.25a.m. south-bound roared in. The sleepers sprang to life, and thefree myself from the Wheel of Things by a broad and open road.' Hebeautiful meals all hot from the cookshop at the head of the serai,

Even reduced to the consistency of dog food, Kim is a spicy read.- young Mohammedan women, cigars, trains, amulets, the Great Wheel of Things- Sock it to me, Rudyard, baby!

[identity profile] jfs.livejournal.com 2006-08-31 11:01 am (UTC)(link)
One of the things I got from Kim was Kipling's deep and abiding love of India.

[identity profile] jackiejj.livejournal.com 2006-08-31 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you, Tony. This was fun reading!

[identity profile] jackiejj.livejournal.com 2006-08-31 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
Here's the sort of junk I get--this one just came through:

Have you ever wondered how it would feel to wear a $10,000 watch
or a $9,000 necklace. Well now is you chance.

[identity profile] lblanchard.livejournal.com 2006-08-31 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Scary: I could probably find the context for most of those snippets.

[identity profile] zoe-1418.livejournal.com 2006-08-31 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, I'd like to "free myself from the Wheel of Things by a broad and open road!"

That's much better than the spam I'm getting, which alternately invites me to lose weight or increase the size of my [nonexistent since I'm a girl] you-know-what.