As much as I find junk e-mails irritating, I have to say that the subject lines can be a constant source of amusement. I had three when I opened my Hotmail account this morning. The first said ‘Grow Your Member in Weeks.’ The second was ‘I Want God to be Merciful to me.’ The third was in Arabic. Is the universe trying to tell me something?
My favourite is the one that says something like ‘Breast enlargement at discount prices.’ Wouldn’t you think that modern software would be capable of recognising gender-specific names like Jeffrey?!
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...until death do re-unite or the Priestess return to Avalon.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self .
This character appears in one of my short stories, and also in the novel. He's sadder than he looks, poor thing.
About Me
- JJ
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
- I've never had money because I've never been driven by money. I received little formal education beyond the age of sixteen, which isn't such a bad thing since you get a different angle on life that way. Learning what you want and need to learn often reveals things that the system's road keeps hidden.
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Anyone interested in viewing the availablity of my novel Odyssey or novella The Gift Horse can do so here.
To Be Retained...
...until death do re-unite or the Priestess return to Avalon.
Khalil Gibran on Children.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
OMAR KAYYAM ON REGRET.
The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
Herman Hess on Nobility
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self .
Free Fiction
I have another blog called A Handful of Stories on which I've posted some of my short fiction. Most of it has been published by a variety of independent small press publishers, so somebody other than me must have thought it worth reading.
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5 comments:
Well, you never know these days, who is what anymore...I'm glad you're at least laughing about them. I've put in a lot of key words on what determines spam on my email filter and knock on wood, it actually seems to be decreasing.Don't you remember the song, "Lola" by the Kinks, a perfect example of a "girl who walks like a man" ;)
Do you know, Wendy, I never listened to the words of that song. I just thought it sounded good at the time, but I gather it's a bit 'odd.'
And I didn't know you could put keywords on spam filters. You will have gathered by now that my relationship with computers is, er, reluctant.
you honestly don’t want larger breasts? i get all sorts of offers for penis enlargement and i’m beginning to seriously consider it.
years and years ago, probably in the late 90s when i first got online, i used to get spam with bizarre subject lines. really surreal stuff, strings of exotic words (words that had nothing to do with personal enlargement or porn or any enticing thing) that seemed randomly generated, but if you gave them a good deal of thought and re-reading you could sorta find sense in them, maybe even make them tell a story...especially if a bunch arrived at once, it was like reading and trying to interpret very inaccessible poetry.
Never was a breast man, Em, not even in the days when it mattered. And aren't you just the liberated ones over there? We still have Queen Victoria to look up to.
As for the rest, what a fruitful mind you have!
Hahahaha I never read those things. Those go straight in the bin!
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