Other people's spam
Absent any original creativity or wit of my own to offer (too little sleep to form coherent thought), this curious thread from today's email haul will have to stand.
Arrived into work this morning to find an inbox filled with this lengthy and entertaining badinage between my brother and a cohort of friends in the UK. Apologies in advance to those of you who didn't grow up in England in the 60s & 70s - some of the references will probably pass you by.
Here, then, is a core sample sliced directly from the body of nutbars who inhabit my email contacts list. Starts with my brother Gerard forwarding inexplicable spam:
-----Original Message-----
From: Laundry Revolution [mailto:info@taysolutions.com]
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:04 AM
Subject: Please Confirm Your Subscription to January no3 list
Please Confirm Your Subscription to January no3 list.
Please confirm your interest in joining January no3 list, an email
newsletter published by Laundry Revolution.
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...forwarded by Gezzie, with comments:
Subject:Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
...even beats previous highlight: "watch hot teens get nailed by Horses"
From: Sean Wilken
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
Presumably this is for one's cleaning needs (whether moral or otherwise) once one has visited the previous "highlight"
From: Mark Prottey
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
There's something oddly heroic about the concept though. Imagine Robespierre doing your dry-cleaning.
From: Tom de la Mare
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
I thought the heads went off into laundry baskets.
From: Gerard Clarke
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
difficult to get the stains out of the bath towels after Charlotte Cordery's paid a visit.
From: Mark Prottey
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
Laundry revolution was an attempt to resolve unique problems faced by sans culottes, enabling them to get their keks back correctly laundered and ironed. Only the introduction of the Corby trouser press has enjoyed similar historical impact within the field of insurrectionary garment cleansing and presentation.
From: Sean Wilken
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
Surely to get the clothes clean after the Long March
From: Gerard Clarke
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
I always thought that the sans culottes were so called because they could not afford the fancy britches of the nobility and were forced to dress in cake, but now I appreciate that it was because their keks had been lost in the wash, and that when Madame de la Pompadour said "Apres nous, le deluge", all she was doing was recommending rinse-cycle 3 for easy-care delicates.
From: Mark Prottey
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
I refer you to Sergei Eisenstein's renowned "Odessa steps" scene in his meisterwerk Battleship Potemkin. Here we see a horrified domestic technician gazing at her Zanussi machine hurtling to an almost certain doom.
Although dismissed in some quarters as 'soap opera', the emotional power of this scene remains undiminished, even though the twin tub has been largely superceded by the front loader.
From: Gerard Clarke
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
Was it Bukharin who said that only Dialectical realism, or failing that, Daz could handle the stubborn understains of History?
From: Mark Prottey
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
Whereas Roosevelt was a firm advocate of the 'square deal' offered by Surf.
From: Mark Prottey
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
The Omo brand was surely instrumental in washing away the moral stain of heterocentric attitudes.
From: Tom de la Mare
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
What does all this say about Danny Baker's progress from Socialist Worker and NME activist to laundry front man? Is this "money laundering"?
From: Sean Wilken
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
I assumed it was merely a question of the Tide of history
From: Mark Prottey
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
'NME activist' is a truly revolutionary concept.
From: Tom de la Mare
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
NME activists campaign against such bourgeois monstrosities as Shakira's latest album, "Laundry Service" (I kid you not).
From: Sean Wilken
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
But does that mean they are in favour of Ms Aguilera's eponymous "Dirty"....?
From: Mark Prottey
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
Hmmm... similar laundry-related critical activism blighted the Ink Spots' career many years ago.
From: Tom de la Mare
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
Yes, and The Jam, Smashing Pumkins, Tangerine Dream, and a little known
Denver band The Grass Stains as well as the German leather band "Sweat".
From: MarkProttey
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
Not forgetting Mud, who had terrible trouble with dirty tiger footprints all over their stage finery.
===================================================================
They really need to get out more.
Absent any original creativity or wit of my own to offer (too little sleep to form coherent thought), this curious thread from today's email haul will have to stand.
Arrived into work this morning to find an inbox filled with this lengthy and entertaining badinage between my brother and a cohort of friends in the UK. Apologies in advance to those of you who didn't grow up in England in the 60s & 70s - some of the references will probably pass you by.
Here, then, is a core sample sliced directly from the body of nutbars who inhabit my email contacts list. Starts with my brother Gerard forwarding inexplicable spam:
-----Original Message-----
From: Laundry Revolution [mailto:info@taysolutions.com]
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:04 AM
Subject: Please Confirm Your Subscription to January no3 list
Please Confirm Your Subscription to January no3 list.
Please confirm your interest in joining January no3 list, an email
newsletter published by Laundry Revolution.
Please note that if we don't hear from you, you won't be added to
this list. So please respond!
Please confirm your subscription to this mailing by clicking the
button below. If you do NOT want to subscribe to this mailing,
simply ignore this message.
Please do not reply to this message; your subscription will not be
confirmed. You must click on the button to confirm your
subscription.
...forwarded by Gezzie, with comments:
Subject:Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
...even beats previous highlight: "watch hot teens get nailed by Horses"
From: Sean Wilken
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
Presumably this is for one's cleaning needs (whether moral or otherwise) once one has visited the previous "highlight"
From: Mark Prottey
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
There's something oddly heroic about the concept though. Imagine Robespierre doing your dry-cleaning.
From: Tom de la Mare
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
I thought the heads went off into laundry baskets.
From: Gerard Clarke
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
difficult to get the stains out of the bath towels after Charlotte Cordery's paid a visit.
From: Mark Prottey
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
Laundry revolution was an attempt to resolve unique problems faced by sans culottes, enabling them to get their keks back correctly laundered and ironed. Only the introduction of the Corby trouser press has enjoyed similar historical impact within the field of insurrectionary garment cleansing and presentation.
From: Sean Wilken
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
Surely to get the clothes clean after the Long March
From: Gerard Clarke
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
I always thought that the sans culottes were so called because they could not afford the fancy britches of the nobility and were forced to dress in cake, but now I appreciate that it was because their keks had been lost in the wash, and that when Madame de la Pompadour said "Apres nous, le deluge", all she was doing was recommending rinse-cycle 3 for easy-care delicates.
From: Mark Prottey
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
I refer you to Sergei Eisenstein's renowned "Odessa steps" scene in his meisterwerk Battleship Potemkin. Here we see a horrified domestic technician gazing at her Zanussi machine hurtling to an almost certain doom.
Although dismissed in some quarters as 'soap opera', the emotional power of this scene remains undiminished, even though the twin tub has been largely superceded by the front loader.
From: Gerard Clarke
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
Was it Bukharin who said that only Dialectical realism, or failing that, Daz could handle the stubborn understains of History?
From: Mark Prottey
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
Whereas Roosevelt was a firm advocate of the 'square deal' offered by Surf.
From: Mark Prottey
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
The Omo brand was surely instrumental in washing away the moral stain of heterocentric attitudes.
From: Tom de la Mare
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
What does all this say about Danny Baker's progress from Socialist Worker and NME activist to laundry front man? Is this "money laundering"?
From: Sean Wilken
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
I assumed it was merely a question of the Tide of history
From: Mark Prottey
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
'NME activist' is a truly revolutionary concept.
From: Tom de la Mare
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
NME activists campaign against such bourgeois monstrosities as Shakira's latest album, "Laundry Service" (I kid you not).
From: Sean Wilken
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
But does that mean they are in favour of Ms Aguilera's eponymous "Dirty"....?
From: Mark Prottey
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
Hmmm... similar laundry-related critical activism blighted the Ink Spots' career many years ago.
From: Tom de la Mare
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
Yes, and The Jam, Smashing Pumkins, Tangerine Dream, and a little known
Denver band The Grass Stains as well as the German leather band "Sweat".
From: MarkProttey
Subject: RE: Quite simply the weirdest auto-spam ever
Not forgetting Mud, who had terrible trouble with dirty tiger footprints all over their stage finery.
===================================================================
They really need to get out more.
