Lou Pickney's Online Commentary
German Spam
Tuesday
May 17, 2005
Because I work within a corporate structure at DigiQuest (in association with the Bubba The Love Sponge show), I get e-mails from associated companies as part of my general mail account. Don't ask me to explain, it'd just be more complicated. I only mention this because of an e-mail today that was packed with unintentional comedy.
Hi Everybody:
Just a reminder do not open any email with WSAgency and subject The Whore lived like a German, IT’S THE VIRUS.
I just receive it.
I love the way this person (who I'm choosing not to identify, lest it somehow come back to bite me in the butt) capitalized IT'S THE VIRUS. Like it's a line from The Stand by Stephen King or a Michael Crichton novel or something. And don't miss the "I just receive it" part. Classic. I'm not the type to sit there and pick through e-mails for spelling errors or misplaced apostrophes, but it can be amazing sometimes to read e-mails and realize they're coming from people with college degrees. How did they write papers in college? Or "paper's", as I'm sure it would be for some of them.
The "IT'S THE VIRUS" e-mail apparently was sent in reaction to the German e-mail virus that hit really hard over the weekend and flooded e-mail accounts across the world over the weekend. My Bubba Army e-mail in particular was jammed with it. Out of 150 or so e-mails I had waiting for me this morning, maybe 10 of them were legit, the rest spam. Most of them were of the German variety, the latest type of spam, "propoganda spam" as it's called. But since I can't read it (beyond "Dresden 1945"), I can't even understand what they want me to know. Not that I'd take the side of propoganda spammers, but still talk about ineffective marketing...
Sunday night was TV overload in the heart of May sweeps. There was nothing of interest (besides NBA playoff basketball) on all day... and then 8 PM EDT hit and things went crazy. Let's see, there was the final episode of Survivor: Palau, The Contender, The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Deadwood, and Desperate Housewives all airing at some point between 8-10 PM. I had my DVR recording two channels while I watched Survivor on over-the-air TV with my rabbit ears, since the DVR can't handle more than two channel inputs at once. I'm still not caught up on everything, but what I've seen so far has been excellent (two great Simpsons episodes, a dramatic final challenge on Survivor with Ian taking his eyes off the prize and deciding that being seen as a "good guy" was more important than a shot at $1,000,000, a hilarious Family Guy, great plot development on Deadwood leading up to the grand finale, etc.)
On top of that, 24 last night was excellent. Now when sweeps ends one week from tomorrow (next Wednesday night at midnight), the wasteland of summer TV arrives. So it goes, the cycle continues...
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