Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Philosophy in Spam


This is true. I get a lot of "spam". Not, the bits and pieces of who-knows-what meat, but spam email.
This was an ad to buy Photoshop.
In the email, under the photo itself, is some text. Sometimes the text makes no sense, but this spam is a little philosophic:

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To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Superior people never make long visits.
Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any.
Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.
Love is rarer than genius itself.
And friendship is rarer than love.
A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow. Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

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I definitely know a few in Hudson that can benefit from those pearls of spam-wisdom.
Maybe that's why it came to me in the mail....you never know when or where you're going to get a sign or a message.
Hudson, this Spam's for you.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I can't believe you swallowed.