Comments on: Click Language

By: Brenda

Brenda — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:29:47 +0000

Dave, your work is never fluff! Even when you write spammy, bubble-gum chewing fare (she says, laughing). Hey, in ‘Click Language’ you’ve shown that even spammers spam can become funny found poetry.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:30:36 +0000

Thanks, y’all. Kind of a fluff piece, as Brenda says, but after all the grim poems I’ve been posting, I figured some lighter fare wouldn’t hurt!

I finally turned on the Yahoo spam filter a couple months ago, and don’t know why I waited so long. Yes, it does block an occasional “real” email, but at my modem speed it’s so time-consuming to get through my inbox as it is, deleting all the obvious spam messages (and clicking on a few that weren’t so obvious) was really bogging me down. I found it went through cycles, though: I’d get one kind of spam for a few weeks — say, fake Paypal and E-Bay stuff — then it would switch to something entirely different. And the one kind of message that still regularly makes it past Yahoo’s filter? Those darn “bank account” letters from West Africa!

By: robin andrea

robin andrea — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:04:08 +0000

I turned on our complete spam filter, the one that just throws away email before I look at it if it has been detected as spam. Then I discovered that I missed one actual bona fide email, so I loosened the grip a bit to let in some spam. Hoo-boy. The spam we receive on our blog email address is quite startlingly sexual. Any poems derived even from the subject line would be sex-rated. You like Russian virgins with sweet dripping….? All the rest is from Paypal begging me to change my account and give them all of my banking info. I’ve never even used Paypal.

Great poem.

By: MB

MB — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 06:33:04 +0000

Funny.

By: beth

beth — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:31:10 +0000

Ah, yes. This is a good one.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 00:13:24 +0000

Hehhehheh. Perfect Spam-deflector prose poem, Dave.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:48:11 +0000

I never touch married men

Me neither.

To be read while chewing bubble gum

Yep.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:09:55 +0000

Looks easy. Except for the [hidden] clause about the guy with a gun! :) Me, I never touch married men, nor have interest in younger men, or ones too old. Sigh. It’s called the age of the decreasing middle. I’m not sure if they could help me in Nigeria either, not, ha, wealthy enough. Fun poem, spammy, ya know. To be read while chewing bubble gum kinda piece, ya know.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:47:39 +0000

Thanks. Though in point of fact the email I paraphrase (“I should not entertain any atom of fear, as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer”) purports to originate in Burkina Faso.

By: striped twistie

striped twistie — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:33:34 +0000

here’s a good story for you

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060515fa_fac

if the link don’t work, search NYer online archives for “Nigerian email scheme”