The Quotable Spam
I get a lot of spam, and I usually just let it pile up in my junk email folder. While looking through that folder today, I noticed how funny some of the subject lines would be if they were mashed together.
So I wrote a program to do just that.
I’ve been in bed all week with some kind of stomach flu. What can I say — I got bored.
It’s a hacked-together python script that logs in to my email, grabs all the spam messages and stores every word of every subject line in a list as well as the name of each sender. Then it randomly glues some randomly selected subject words together randomly and places them in quotes, making the whole thing look like a strange, possibly offensive quotation. It’s not efficient, and given what it’s supposed to do, I think that’s OK. This is not code I intend to run regularly, or ever again.
Below is some of the more interesting, funny, and/or obscene output it generated. They turned out reading more like headlines than quotes…
” SECURITY for sex Topic: VMware “
I don’t think anyone considers VMware to be a sex topic.
” - Viagra stripping University business ”
I had no idea universities were in that business. I guess I’m not surprised.
” Mac world! you! Desktop pain “
Don’t tell Steve
” anal Soft banana sexual Software “
ummm…
” Sucks busty college People SIGARCH ”
SIGARCH is a special interest group for computer architecture.
” white Pornstar teen Your secretary ”
I don’t think so.
” Topic: exploring Shop lesbians Reminder “
Wouldn’t want to forget that.
” Desktop luck nipples ”
What will they think of next?
I need to get out of the house.
