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Spam lit

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Ever wondered where spammers get the seemingly random text they add as fillers to fool spam filters? I did a book search on Google using a single spam sample. Here are my findings:

01 Scaly-conscience, and a knot of gentlemen from the town of
02 not in want of, into the road: which not only made it rank and the tumbler, ordered a glass of this ale - WOULD order it - I told
03 young wife paler than formerly, all this time; more rarely seen by room to meet me, kneeled down upon the ground and kissed me, and
04 Then, Agnes, you wrong him very much. He my bad Angel, or and thither, after I had recovered that which I had left behind, we
05 gleams - in your friend Traddles, is an unspeakable comfort. With promising, at the corner of a dirty lane, ending in an enclosure
06 myself with glory. But as nothing of the sort happened to be intended for Good night. got up and went away. They followed,
07 particularly confidential to her companion and protector, when a been wretched, too. I waltz with the eldest Miss Larkins. I dont
08 Twopence-halfpenny, says the landlord, is the price of the have taken a doctors degree at college - which is the first reason
09 might be my mother - I had only thought of Mr. or Miss Murdstone almost immediately subsided into a smile that gave me great
10 Mr. Murdstone, with an impatient, even an angry gesture, resumed, Oh my stars and whats-their-names. she went on, clapping a hand
11 In fact, I found out afterwards that Mr. Dick had been for upwards a thousand things it makes a noise about, were not one half so good
12 understood it, or of having shown his condition in spite of upon texts of Scripture- all of which, by some scientific process,
13 wives daughters in your daft-like Highland tales. Soon well be going you deserve it. I have no false pride. I never hesitate to admit,
14 This struck me hard, and I made haste, in a kind of penitence, to blot and invited me to dinner next day. I accepted the invitation, and
15 kittle bit. He filled a glass of wine. Though between you and me, for your own sake, but for Annies, and John Maldons, and many
16 and dine before they went away, that I could not refuse. But, as That Barkis is willing, I repeated, innocently. Is that all the
17 Balfour in the house of the Lord Advocate. And I wonder whether you he had of treating me like a plaything, was more agreeable to me

Line 1. Mosses from an Old Manse, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Line 2 - 16. David Copperfield
Line 17. Robert Louis Stevenson

Amazing.

Written by Ian Dexter

October 2nd, 2006 at 11:26 pm

Posted in Play