OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

“And we owe it all to that spammer.”

He: Well, that’s a funny story, actually. It all started when I got some spam while I was away.

She: It turns out some spammer forged my email address and sent spam out in my name!

He: I wrote a funny little poem in my Out-Of-Office reply-

She: It was hilarious! I laughed for ages when I read it-

He: Because my Out-Of-Office reply went to her, not to the spammer, because her address was-

She: Yes, I thought it was sooo funny, I showed it to some friends, and they said I should write to him and tell him so.

He: I came back from a horrible business trip, and I was wading through my email, and there was this thoughtful little note, and her signature included a link to her web-site, so I checked out her blog. It was quite intriguing and beautifully written.

She: He read through all the archives. He couldn’t get enough!

He: Well, I read it for an hour or two.

She: An hour? You read it for days! I went back and checked the server logs!

He: Yeah, I guess. I must have been jetlagged.

She: Not too jetlagged to post some thoughtful comments, though! And some pretty funny ones too.

He: So, we emailed back and forth a couple of times.

She: It was him who suggested we get together for a drink.

He: And so that’s the story of how we met. And we owe it all to that spammer.

No, this story isn’t true. But I wish it was. There’s a lot of spam being forged from somethinkodd.com at the moment; it is just my wishful thinking that some good could come from this nuisance.

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  1. How cute. Your forlorn is showing. So I guess all hope is not lost. :-)

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