Who needs modern poets when you have spam?

[drscott]

This arrived in the email this morning, with the intriguing subject line "Your future, pale elder":

Morocco gum molding edge night life olivine-basalt out guide
paper-sparing mosquito bee ocean-guarded nerve-irritating palmyra wood
moldboard plow one-pope one-buttoned mis-lie

Pan-germany parterre box parish priest pater patratus panty girdle onglette file N radiation
music-flowing muddy-mettled oblong-ovoid
old-fogyism out-clearing ninepin block no-good ounce metal off-white nine-shilling new moon Pan-orthodox nose-high patch bolt other-group peace guild
night fire mooring chock moon-eyed m-hum Passion music
nature study muscle-tired pari-mutuel pansy purple

mingle-mangler Pasch day needle telegraph milori green nerve cell mis-enter night-fallen
mileage ticket once removed monkey-god
pat-pat ore dressing money-spelled mid-term mint sauce obtuse bisectrix oat flour out-kneed

Comments

[excessor.livejournal.com]

O Pale Elder, it's poetry by hyphenation.

Maybe later you can listen to my moon-eyed m-hum Passion music.

[furfairy.livejournal.com]

It would serve the spammer right if someone took this text, set it to music, and made money from it.

[markbuster.livejournal.com]

(wide eyed)....

yes master.....
I understand.....
...all the children.... yes master....

[otterpop58.livejournal.com]

now you're on the NSA radar for sure

[apparentparadox]

Sometimes the spam has phrases that look like they were taken out of some book, and I sometimes try to guess what book they are from. For instance:

Moon-letters are rune-letters, but you cannot see them, said
Elrond, not when you look straight at them. They can only be seen when
the moon shines behind them, and what is more, with the more cunning 

Now, this looks like it might be from Lord of the Rings, but it reminds me of the scene where they are trying to get into Moria, but that was Gandalf, not Elrond, so maybe this is some other book?

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

From Chapter 3 of The Hobbit, "A Short Rest." Or so Google tells me, and I believe everything it says....

[apparentparadox]

That's what I get for relying on my memory rather than the extended world-memory that is Google.

[bearfuz.livejournal.com]

Mingle-mangler!? Out-kneed?!

Literature

[fyellin.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting for

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.