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Subject: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: DMcG Date: 29 Jan 14 - 05:53 AM I've just deleted a spam email purportedly about an order I'd placed with Amazon. The 'To:' list in the email contained dozens of emails and Amazon had been typed as 'Ammazon'. So all these different people were allocated the same order number? And the company can't spell its own name? I can't believe their heart is really in it, you know. If someone wants to spam, they could at least look as if they are making some effort! |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: bubblyrat Date: 29 Jan 14 - 07:34 AM They obviously don't Spam a lot !! |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 29 Jan 14 - 09:37 AM But what did the scammer want you to do, DMcG? What would they gain by sending you that? I'm feeling quite neglected, as I hardly get any Spam these days. Do they feel I'm not worth conning? (If so, they'd be right!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: Jack the Sailor Date: 29 Jan 14 - 09:47 AM I heard an article on NPR whereby the spam scammers purposely make their emails silly and stupid to sort out the skeptics. It seems counter intuitive, but reportedly it increases their success rate. |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: GUEST Date: 29 Jan 14 - 10:34 AM Let that be a warning to you . . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: Rapparee Date: 29 Jan 14 - 10:57 AM I set up my spam filter, and there's one on my ISP's mail server as well. Sometimes a mistake is made, but not very often. Personally, I kinda like spam. You can chop it up into little cubes and use it to make tacos, for instance. Or bake a whole can of it with pineapple on top and in the pineapple juice. |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: catspaw49 Date: 29 Jan 14 - 11:26 AM My Old Man loved it with hominy fried in the Spam grease. I grew to like it......or was it that I had to like it since it was a a meal a couple of times a month? I think it was some sort of hangover from his times in WWII............... Spaw (not Spam) |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: JohnInKansas Date: 29 Jan 14 - 01:30 PM While most people report that "granny was a wonderful cook," the reality is that they learned to like (and expect) whatever mess the old lady fed them. A similar effect applies to advertisement, and especially to government propaganda. A fairly extensive article on SPAMMER techniques was previously linked in another thread here, and affirmed that most internet SPAM is deliberately made to appear "slightly illiterate." While sending thousands of emails is pretty cheap, the Spammers have to track all the responses and often prepare individual followup responses to the likely replies, which is time consuming and hence "expensive" for them. They assume that those smart enough to recognize bad grammar are unlikely to stick with them long enough to get any payoff, while anyone who replies to a stupid SPAM is sufficiently stupid to be a better target. Stupidity is fairly common. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: GUEST Date: 29 Jan 14 - 01:34 PM Nutrition per fairly thin slice. I like it fried on bread with mustard. Fried separately on bread with mustard. Well, I like the Spam fried. Then put on bread and some mustard added to it. Actually, the mustard is added to the bread after it's baked. So, I like mustard on baked bread with fried Spam added to it. Screw it. I like Klik and Prem. |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: gnu Date: 29 Jan 14 - 02:30 PM I hear Spam, Klik and Prem are gonna do a marketing concept together called Heartburn 1-2-3. Puritan Irish Stew says they will weather this coalition competition alone and kick their collective ass today and especially early tomorrow morning. BRAWMMMMMP! |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: Jack the Sailor Date: 29 Jan 14 - 02:52 PM Of course in Newfoundland the traditional pan fried meat was baloney, whereas for canned meat it was a battle between corned beef and vienna sausages. mmmmm Corned beef and Purity cream crackers mmmmmm with jam jams for dessert mmmmmmm |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: frogprince Date: 29 Jan 14 - 02:55 PM Are Klik and Prem brands marketed in Canuckistan? |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: Bert Date: 29 Jan 14 - 04:12 PM When I was in Iran during the revolution, Spam, or its local equivalent was about all that you could get in the stores. It works reasonably well in stir fry with Chinese five spice and soy sauce. |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: Jack the Sailor Date: 29 Jan 14 - 04:33 PM klik Maple Leaf Wax Bologna |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: gnu Date: 29 Jan 14 - 05:06 PM Ma[le Leafb tube steak sucks. Sunrise for me... until ML bought Sunrise. |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: Jack the Sailor Date: 29 Jan 14 - 05:16 PM I wouldn't know. I haven't had fried baloney since 1985. |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: catspaw49 Date: 29 Jan 14 - 06:46 PM Fried baloney is very popular in the Buckeye state. You need the butcher shop real stuff, thick sliced, lots of fat. Have you ever tried to fry some of that packaged all-beef crap? Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: JohnInKansas Date: 29 Jan 14 - 06:52 PM SPAM is sort of an "out" thing, now that a recent news note says that at least one acquarium offers peanut butter and jellyfish sandwiches. Sounds delicious. (?) John |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: Jack the Sailor Date: 29 Jan 14 - 11:49 PM Yeah JiK, Awesome! I bet the stingers are tangy!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: JohnInKansas Date: 30 Jan 14 - 01:30 AM They probably just use pink Jello, and claim it's jellyfish for advertising purposes, but the articles haven't been too specific. I've always preferred my peanut butters with pickles in the sandwich, although since the teeth went I have to use a pickle relish. I did develop a taste for PButter and honey for a while, since that's always what the Track coach brought for lunch on the bus. I ate a lot of those for a while, so it was like Grandma's cooking - "you get used to it." Peanut butter and molasses, with enough powdered milk mixed in to make it stiff, pressed flat about a half inch thick and cut into squares, makes a nice healthy replacement for the less nutritious stuff the kids would otherwise eat at a social. (The recipe is in Adele Davis' old cookbook.) John |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: GUEST, topsie Date: 30 Jan 14 - 06:00 AM Try a sandwich of crunchy peanut butter, cream cheese, and chopped celery. A touch of marmite or vegemite on the bread first adds an extra flavour. And you could add some chopped spam, to make the sandwich relevant to this thread. |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 30 Jan 14 - 06:58 AM We were given Spam fritters in greasy batter at school dinners. Ghastly. But we loved cold Spam at home in salads, with pickled onions and hard-boiled eggs. Nothing wrong with it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: Rapparee Date: 30 Jan 14 - 11:50 AM In the US, Hawai'i consumes more Spam than any other State, with Alaska second. According to the label posted above, you could eat a whole can of Spam and consume just 400mg of sodium or less that a quarter of what the US Heart Association states should be the daily max. With the passing of the late, much lamented, Fly By Night Club in the Spenard district of Anchorage I know of no other restaurant specializing the Spam cuisine. Perhaps there is a cookbook or recipes in Mr. Whitekey's "Alaska Bizzare" -- I'll have to check. Those were gourmet Spam recipes up there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: Jack the Sailor Date: 30 Jan 14 - 12:50 PM Is gourmet an overused term? |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: Rapparee Date: 30 Jan 14 - 11:28 PM The Menu...gone but not forgotten. |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: GUEST,Musket Date: 31 Jan 14 - 08:16 AM Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: Jack the Sailor Date: 29 Jan 14 - 09:47 AM I heard an article on NPR whereby the spam scammers purposely make their emails silly and stupid to sort out the skeptics. It seems counter intuitive, but reportedly it increases their success rate. Ah... That explains sooooo much. I wondered where you got the idea from, you wily old bugger you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: Backwoodsman Date: 31 Jan 14 - 08:55 AM Eliza, you temptress! Spam fritters, fried egg, baked beans and big fat double-fried (in lard, not yucky, stinky vegetable oil) chips. A heart-attack on a plate. Lovely grub! :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: Rapparee Date: 31 Jan 14 - 09:44 AM I make a mean batch deep-fat-fried lard sticks. |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 31 Jan 14 - 09:53 AM Backwoodsman, I have to confess I absolutely adore lard. I must have been a pig in a past life. I make pastry with it and fry with it. It has such a lovely flavour. It may be a heart attack on a plate, but I'm very long in the tooth and it hasn't had much effect on my heart! (yet!) I am a bit tubby, but not really obese. |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: Jim Dixon Date: 31 Jan 14 - 09:57 AM It could be that they deliberately misspell "Amazon," etc., in order to avoid being trapped by the bots that are designed to detect spam. |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: GUEST, topsie Date: 31 Jan 14 - 02:36 PM One of my favourite foods is lardy cake. |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: DMcG Date: 01 Feb 14 - 03:35 AM Possibly Jim, but there's a lot of anti-spam bots that regard things as spam if the number of people it is posted to is too large, and there were certainly a lot in this case. No, I put it down to incompetence, not cunning. Bread and dripping, anyone? |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 01 Feb 14 - 11:08 AM topsie, I watched a Horizon prog on TV the other night, which concluded that it's eating fat and sugar combined which is very bad for the body. Now your lardy cake is naughty, and so are cream meringues (love 'em) and ice-cream (love it). Isn't it a total bugger that the things we like best are the very stuff we're not supposed to eat? |
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Subject: RE: BS: SPAM: Come on, You're not trying From: Jack the Sailor Date: 01 Feb 14 - 11:12 AM My favorite food is grilled salmon. Lardy cake is way cheaper. |
