What's in My Inbox

* Acknowledgement: An e-mail I received recently from fellow harangue-utan, Chris Wilde, inspired this post.

Spam. You know what I mean. Not the world-famous canned "meat" that's made right here in Minnesota; I'm talking about the stuff that clogs your e-mail inbox. It's annoying, and I never open them, but I have to admit that some of the subject lines are hilarious.

You have got to hand it to these spammers for their persistence. Rather than just using trickery (Please confirm your signup, RE: Your Online Order), or trying to sneak past spam filters with slightly altered words (C ! A L ! S, VlhAGRA), they are getting more creative.

Here's a sampling of some interesting subject lines that have appeared in my inbox recently:

• specific theyre converted iPod
  
• did you hear our boss got fired?
  
• FWD: No work tomorrow; Office closed
  
• Your future, ocean-severed
  
• Your health, ox daisy
  
• Rev up the fun at the Southern California Fair
  
• compose GymnasticsMongolian wrestling Modern dance
  
• Get Your Complimentary Chewing Gum Samples
  
• citrus Inline speed skating Golfcross
  
• Shinty Sports using bicycles or unicycles
  
• Cycling Road hockey Discus
  
• axial Aggressive skating Elephant polo
  
• crematory Thoroughbred racing
  
• contravene Wheelchair rugby

And, of course, my all-time favorite:

• (no subject)

So, what's in your inbox? Please share with the rest of us some of the interesting subject lines you've run across.