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"Hi,

In these difficult times its techniques like this that can make all the difference in cost effectively keeping your company and its products under the nose of your market place and list of business contacts, and can even be used to open new doors." - from a spam email advertising email marketing (careful - we are getting a bit recursive here)

You might think that someone hoping to make a killing from compelling mailshots would take the trouble to write grammatically and clearly - but I couldn't possibly comment. The software obviously doesn't do a very good job of filling in the blanks either. Not a good advert, I think.

I was mildly diverted by the noses opening new doors. Meanwhile the market place is recoiling from the item put under its nose. A curious metaphor...

Fortunately, they also tell me this information extracted under torture from a Taiwanese household appliance manual writer:

"To not receive future mail from ourselves please click here"

Whilst I was looking for something entirely different (such is the serendipity of the web), I found a rather amusingly bleeped page on Yahoo Answers, under the heading "Where do birds go to die?"

Passerines in particular (which include most common garden birds) produce large numbers of offspring, the majority of which do not suvive to adulthood. Great *@&# for example produce clutches of 8-12 eggs. If all these survived to reproduce, Europe would be knee-deep in Great *@&# within a decade or so. But many die either in the nest or soon after fledging. Many more do not make it through their first winter.

which just goes to show that computers (or rather the people who program them) are much more stupid than the average bear. I wonder if it's just "tits", or the more laddish "Great tits" that triggered their bleepometer? What about marsh *@&# and coal *@&# for example?

Oh, and if anyone knows how to get four consecutive asterisks into a post, do tell The FAQ is silent on this matter.

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