Spam Whale

Loath as I am to encourage the fleet-fingered spammerati, I have to admit I got a chuckle out of the latest erectile-dysfunction panacea offered to me this morning: SPUR-M.

Now, that's just a genius name. Spur your Maleness! Git along, little spermies! I mean, you didn't even have to tell me that this is "the secret formula used by p0rn stars" for their "huge effects!" I am so there. (Extra points, by the way, for spelling "effects" correctly.)

Over at Language Log, though, linguist Geoffrey Nunberg is having an unhappier day with his spampals. Luckily for us, he prefers versing to cursing. A sample:

In my in-box, every morning,
Greetings from a slew of spammers,
Each, to fool the filters, using
In the header and the body,
Random lines from "Hiawatha":
"And the fierce Kabibonokka,"
(Get your clearitol and cum pills);
"Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water"
(Make your wife or girlfriend speechless)...

...and so on, in sparkling trochaic tetrameter. Bravo, Professor Nunberg!