Spam, spam, spam, spam

I have a “spam” email address that I use for online purchases and things like that. It’s the email address I give out when I know the likely result will be a bombardment of offers for products I physically have no use for (wink, wink.) Most of the time that sort of message goes straight to the spam folder anyway, so all I have to look at are harmless (except, possibly, to the pocketbook) ads for stores where I’ve bought things. Since it’s not my “real” email address and I only check it an average of once a week, it’s not a big deal.

Every once in a while, though, one slips through the net. And something must be wrong with the net, because when I signed on today I found the following from the last several days:

• Why purchase from Canadian Healthcare? (I had this one twice, with different senders)
• Impress your business partner with Rolex watches
• Excellent replicas for a reasonable price
• Now you can take your pants off with pride
• Any way you want it, that’s the way you need it

The last one is my favorite. As suggestive as it sounds, it was actually from yourmusic.com, which used to be BMG Music Service.

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And now for something completely different.
(but not really)

You know your kids can cope with just about any situation when the adults at the dinner table monopolize the conversation by repeating Monty Python quotes back and forth and the children simply eat their dinner without batting an eye.

Such is life at our house.