The For Real Deal

Like most people, I don’t enjoy receiving junk mail (electronic or otherwise), but lately I’ve become more and more amused at the absurdity of most junk mail subject lines. Lately it seems that junk mailers have taken a turn for the random.

I’ve been collecting junk mail “From” names for the last several weeks, when I started getting a series of names that followed a bizarre format: “Random/Obscure-word Initial Other-Random/Obscure-word,” e.g., “Goaltenders G. Distastefully” (which was one of the first I kept). For a while (at least six weeks) I got emails like this pretty regularly (and the messages were typically software-related). They seem to have mostly stopped now, but occasionally one or two trickle in. Here is a list of some of the better ones I’ve gotten:

• Transgressors L. Worst
• Therapies C. Lemming
• Reenacting I. Damasking
• Surrogate B. Interpretation
• Crackpot D. Gallivanted
• Epithets P. Cancers
• Interlarded D. Conformist
• Furbishes K. Disgruntling
• Downplay H. Lemon
• Honest O. Dismembering
• Counterintelligence T. Therapeutics
• Smudgier M. Recompilation
• Nashville L. Malignant
• Redrawing S. Annie
• Captained H. Annulment
• Idiocy V. Obsesses
• Downloading S. Coroner
• Overdo G. Dudley
• Dirt K. Spearhead
• Secrecy H. Fearing
• Trites I. Northeasters
• Observatory B. Mooring
• Transitory L. Spades
• Sewing C. Wheals
• Goodly A. French

(In case you have trouble with some of those words, hop on over to Merriam-Webster or Dictionary.com for definitions)

As I’ve said, this trend is winding down, but it seems to be replaced with a new style of two-part random subject lines. I’ll cover those in another post (I don’t have very many of them just yet, and I’m going to stick to one type of junk mail per post). Enjoy the absurdity!

[Note: I almost titled this post “Fun with Spam,” but I figure it’s just not right to defame the tasty meat product, which is a food I love to eat, and is produced by a respectable company. Therefore, I’m choosing to use the term “junk mail” from now on.]

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