Wednesday, 27 June 2007

You've got (junk)mail!

Like a lot of people, I get an obscene amount of junk email coming into my inbox on a daily basis. I think it stems back years ago when my brother thought it was funny to sign me up for random mailing lists such as "Yeast appreciation society" and "Rape Victims Anonymous". Really, it was kind of childish, especially since he knew I was already a gold member of most of these already.
They pretty much try any trick in the book to get you to open them. Promises of naked bungee jumping Swedish girls, and cheap viagra might get some people, but they are getting more creative these days. Some merely say "Hi how are you?", or "want to have sex with me? aacenkjn;af", just in case you're lonely, bored, and probably a little bit drunk.

But today was a first, I received a blank email.
I couldn't quite figure it out. Is this some sort of new age thing, where you send people a blank email and they have to imagine something funny (eg Larry Emdur dressed in a superman outfit riding a unicycle?), or something interesting (eg Facts about pineapples being use to treat baldness in Elephants), or pretend it is a chain mail from a dying 6yr old Zimbabwe kid requesting money for an urgent big toe transplant?

Unfortunately tv and beer has killed my imagination, so it still remains blank for me. But I like its style.

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