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Spam poetry as source material



Hi,

I've been assembling a collection of what I call spam poetry, the 
semi-random words put in messages to fool filters, e.g.

At 1:30 PM +0600 6/22/04, Elise Mccain wrote:
>graphite atheist adorn stable dispersion babysitter squander 
>alongside gallon beak eelgrass francine

I don't know when or whether I will do anything with them or in what 
medium. I wonder of anyone else out there is thinking on these lines. 
Maybe use text to speech software to generate the sound -- or get an 
actor to read the words in a very formal style

(Hmmm.., we could do a cut and paste email  text piece, each person 
adds one chosen line from his spam to the piece as it goes around)
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