Tuesday, January 06, 2009

The Russians are Coming!

I always scan my spam folder for anything that may have slipped through the cracks and landed there when it shouldn't have. I usually have lots of solicitations for various male enhacement medications and lots of "hot young" er, ladies want to offer me services I don't have the anatomy for. Occasionally I recieve something with a subject line that almost resembles poetry. I don't remember who thought of this, I think it may have been Ron, but we now refer to this poetic phenomenon as spam-ku. Today I received some spam in Russian! It looked like this:

мега быстро улетит объявление по московским фирмам

I was intrigued and went to a translation site and it translated to this: mega- rapidly will fly away declaration on the Moscow firms

So then, being the silly girl I am I translated it back into Russian and got this:

mega- быстро летит отсутствующее объявление на фирмах Москва

And then I did it back into English again:
mega- rapidly flies the absent declaration at the firms Moscow


I could go on and on with this... the difference was subtle and not as entertaining as I had hoped.
This reminds me of those games of Operator we all played as a kid... you know where you whisper something in someones ear and pass it along until the end of the group and hear how the message changed.

I'm not sure exactly where I'm going with this... but I do wonder just what they were trying to sell me.

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