I received an email today that was automatically filtered to my junk mail folder. I go through this folder before I empty it, just to make sure that something that is obviously legitimate didn’t get filtered. Occasionally, I find myself bored, and I will sometimes read a junk email or two.
Today, I had the good fortune of reading one ostensibly from abbigale@earthlink.com. Abbigale was polite enough to write me a one word email. The email?
shagface
That’s it. No image. No non-English characters. No misshapen hyperlink. One word: shagface. What in the hell is that? Who arranges a spam bot to send this one word email to hundreds, or thousands or more, addresses on an email list? And why? What in the hell is “shagface”? Is Abbigale calling me a “shagface”? Are there some oral sex under-or-over tones I’m supposed to be getting here?
The Internet is a beautiful place. What other place could you be where someone drops by, looks you in your face, and simply says “shagface”?
I got the same thing today and googled “shagface email” and got your site as the 1st hit. WTF..
Comment by Diavoletto — January 17, 2006 @ 10:56 pm
I have absolutely no idea why someone would choose to send that as a junk email. I’m glad I’m not the only one who was a little confused by the whole thing though.
Comment by jjk — January 18, 2006 @ 12:30 am
Jeff, I’m reminded of a quote from the Hitchhiker’s Guide (Life, The Universe, And Everything, to be specific). Sometimes the universe does just go out of its way to do things like call you “jerk”, and “kneebiter”, and “shagface”:
[Alien suddenly arrives in spaceship]
Alien: “You’re a jerk, Dent”
Arthur: “Whh…?”
Alien: “Arthur Dent? Arthur Philip Dent?”
Arthur: “Er… Yes…”
Alien: “You’re a jerk. A complete kneebiter.”
[Alien equally suddenly departs in spaceship]
(Paraphrased from Life, The Universe, and Everything, Douglas Adams)
Comment by argriffi — January 18, 2006 @ 3:32 am
I got the exact same e-mail on January 15th, but mine was from abbiebennett@earthlink.net WTF???
Comment by Noelle — January 25, 2006 @ 1:42 pm
send me stuff
Comment by Dick — December 15, 2009 @ 10:06 pm