Spam is not a good thing, there I said it, whew, I know people love it, but it’s bad, just bad!
Spam started out to just represent a food, I won’t say food group, maybe food like substance. Either way, not for me, I’m a veg head! But for those who still love it, have at it! There are recipes galore for you to enjoy and if you have a gmail account, you have probably seen the links in your junk folder for spam recipes, right next to delete all messages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)
Next, we have the electronic version of spam, which is what I will be waxing on tonight. Electronic spam, or junk email, used to be we only got junk in our mailboxes, fliers, now, it’s virtual…whoopie, well, the one good thing, you just hit delete and it’s gone, you didn’t have to kill a tree.
But it’s still a bad thing…how about the “real email” that accidentally gets sent to your junk/spam folder? I learned the hard way to go through or at least look at every single email/subject and recipient to be sure that I don’t delete something important, I’ve gotten emails from recruiters there, oh brother! Then I get spam in my actual inbox, fun.
Ooh, I may have an inheritance of a bajillion/gazillion/umajillian dollars! All I have to do is write back to my cousin/long lost royal relation and send them my account number, sure thing! There’s a part of me that always wanted to open a dummy bank account and send them that, they won’t get anything, well, I could send them my actual account, no difference, ha ha. The sad part is that there are so many people who get sucked into the scam, especially the elderly, used to be they would call on the phone, now just email.
Oh, I can enlarge my hm..hm…wow, who knew? I don’t even have one of those, but thanks for the offer! Hot Asian girls? Wow! Married but looking? Wow! Enlarge this, extend that, stay …longer. There’s even a “F$*kbook”! Ooh, hurry, where do I sign? “Baby, I saw you across the room, don’t you remember?” Who falls for this crap?
My mom was a teacher and if you knew her this story will crack…you…up? You couldn’t wear shorts in her classroom, she had sweatpants in the locker if you needed them. You didn’t cut her class, she would track you down, skip school? She would call your parents! When I subbed for her one day, they walked in the room and said “You’re Mrs. X’s daughter, we’re stayin!” She was great and her students and their parents loved her. She didn’t take crap or stand for it.
We didn’t cuss in my house, my parents didn’t use bad language, one time, I closed a car door on my foot, I asked if I could use an expletive. A little background for you.
She got a computer in her classroom one day, this is years ago, AOL was still the you know what. Well, she enjoyed the PC, but was frustrated with some things and she go a lot of spam and one day at the table she says (mind you, my sister and I were grown at this point) “You’ll never guess now much p&$$@ I want to…” (Hint, it’s another word for kitty), I think we just about fell out of our chairs!
The funnier part? She got an email from the IT department at her school. “You have been flagged for a high volume of inappropriate emails! My mom! Imagine! We laughed a lot at that one!
Now, we all laugh at the ridiculous emails we get in our spam folders, but they can sometimes be dangerous, aside from scamming people, there are viruses that get sent out and can do horrible things to your PC, what’s the point? I know it’s challenge for some people, hackers love a good challenge, well, go challenge yourself doing something productive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic)
Rant done. I’m sure there is more that I can say but I think we’re good. I will end by saying there is only one form of spam I like and it was in a song created by the geniuses that are Monty Python and I leave you with them here…enjoy your SPAM, I know I do!
Peaches Prattlings 