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I thought I’d seen it all in my inbox. Viagra ads. Barely legal teens. Penis and breast enlargement. But now I’m getting spam from extraterrestrials. I just got mail with the following subject line:

if their really really ecstatically glowing paperclip bizarrely means to appear to be Caucasian, then your nasty tan ravens are omnipotent!

This is reminiscent of the random gibberish spewed forth by the Fnorder at Steve Jackson Games. All the words and parts of speech are English, but it still makes no sense whatsoever. It’s as if an alien intelligence got a hold of a dictionary that includes parts of speech, but no definitions.

Or perhaps I’m just getting spammed by a more terrestrial source. Maybe someone’s written a program to generate near-meaningless subject lines for spam. It could be similar to the software that produced these computer-generated sonnets back in the seventies. Could Jonathan Partington have forsaken a promising career in mathematics, and he’s now writing spam mailers?

At least mail titled “Re Make Her Excited” is easy to dismiss at a glance. This randomly-generated stuff is insidious.