You take poll

[asthmaticeog]

she had surrendered to him - Arabella, he said very gently, there him, and, so, a proper man for confidences. But if she knew! If presume to take it in the hand of a thief and a pirate, said he paying me the sum of fifty thousand pieces of eight and one hundred all that he had endured seemed as nothing. To him, this separation At last the Arabella was right between the Spanish ships prow to imperturbability that he had studiously cultivated. He was a young We'll leave your religion out of account for the moment, friend, An echo of it had reached Europe, and at the Court of St. James's Lord Julian stared at him bewildered. His long, aristocratic They moved out of the open to one of the terraces, where a pergola two hundred pounds besides imprisonment. It would ruin me. You'll a short, stabbing laugh. Yet in spite of that you went with him? his enemy in vain for a year, Don Miguel chanced upon him in this And we have in the boat below two chests containing fifty thousand But here Bishop interrupted him. He had heaved himself to his feet,

[lpbk2713]

1. Other

.... just other.

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. Fun with cut-ups, eh?

Keep at it. You're not quite Burroughs yet.

[asthmaticeog]

3. Actually, that's a spam I got today.

Utterly incomprehensible.

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. Randomised text...

from a novel called "Captain Blood" by Rafael Sabatini. (Not that knowing that makes it any more comprehensible.)

What are they trying to sell, anyway? Home mortgages, or penis-enhancing pills?

[asthmaticeog]

5. That's what puzzles me ---

no sales pitch or e-commerce link. :shrug: I've been getting pointless bizzarro spams like that every couple of days lately.

[LaurenG]

7. Check for viruses lately?

That is a weird email and I just don't get it.

[asthmaticeog]

8. I'm on Mac OSX, I don't use Outlook for mail...

and I surf with Firefox using pretty strict security prefs. What virus could it be? :shrug:

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. Outlook/MS Word macro virus, most likely.

So you've nothing to worry about.

[asthmaticeog]

12. That's good to know, thanks.

I *do* rather enjoy getting these odd non-sequiturs in my inbox now and then, glad it won't mess with my machine.

[LaurenG]

13. Probably none

But yesterday my Avast (virus protection) went ballistic when I opened an email, it said it was mal ware. Actually the mal ware tried to hijack me and took me to a porn site. I'm just wary over stuff like that.

[asthmaticeog]

14. Rightly so - that shit's just evil. n/t

[terrya]

6. I vote for...

"I hate excerpts from trashy romance novels emailed to unsuspecting people" :puke:

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. Is "Oh God, Stick it in My Ass" a poll option?

:shrug:

[asthmaticeog]

11. No sir. That's a pole option. (n/t)

[tigereye]

15. snort

and here I thought your absurdity meter was stuck on high....;)