The For Real Deal

Click here for Part I.

It’s been really interesting to see the patterns in junk mail once I started really paying attention. Now, I still would rather not get any junk mail at all, but since it’s practically a given these days, I may as well find some sort of amusement in it.

Anyways, here is the second part of my Gallery of Really Goofy Junk Mail Messages. For this installment, the focus is on subject lines. Rarely does a junk mail message have both an interesting “from” name (as described in Part I) and subject line at the same time. Usually it’s only one or the other.

The following list is of subject lines that follow a specific pattern, being “Topic” comma “Random phrase” (eg. “Your health, olive gnat”). I call the first part “Topic” because it seems to correspond with a particular type of message (phishing, health, money, and so on). Those are relatively few in number; the variety is in the second part, the “Random phrase,” which is akin to Part I’s randomly-put together “from” names. Many of these second parts make no sense at all.

So, without further delay, here is the list, sorted by topic:

• :), parcel-guilty
• :), missel tree
• :), no-surrender
• :), page rest
• Order status, nerve-deaf
• Order status, palm green
• Order status, mill-run
• Hi, panel saw
• Hi, nimble-witted
• Hi, one fifth
• Hi, open-airish
• Your health, Mongol-galchic alphabet
• Your health, optimum capacity
• Your health, open-windowedness
• Your cash, nitro-cellulose
• Your cash, olive-sided flycatcher
• Your cash, never-stable
• Your money, motion-picture camera
• Your money, mirror-faced
• Your money, owl-wide
• Your money, oven-baked
• Cash, hinge joint

As a bonus, here are a couple of subject lines that don’t fit the pattern of the others, but are pretty funny anyways. Enjoy!

• desktop Starbucks done.Its beefy.
• watch it like a hawk H-Y-W-I Were you born in a barn?

Note: HYWI is the stock market symbol for Hollywood Intermediate Inc.

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