# Awesome!  Cryptic spam!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-cryptic-spam/373343>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 19, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-cryptic-spam/373343 "2006-09-19T23:02:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-cryptic-spam/373343/1 "2006-09-19T23:02:59Z")

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Far be it for me to actually read spam, but this one was really intriguing. I don’t know why, but I thought I’d share it verbatim:

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> ## Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 01:17:12 +0100 From: “Todd Young” \<yaxwg@prozent.wartesaal.darktech.org\> Subject: So, curse had once you any the way, he would you see. Hardin reminded
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> So greatly in fact, was no objections. But if so? A you I will never saw them off into nothingness, and your worries  
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Well, now I am just plain hooked. First, it was the cliffhanger of an e-curse from some Voudou priestess that Hardin IMed, that apparently didn’t work right. I wonder what Hardin reminded her so greatly of, that there were no objections. But if so, she must have e-cursed me into nothingness, along with my worries.

Tripler  
Man alive, Shakespeare himself could never write so well.

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**Author:** ![Cowgirl\_Jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Cowgirl\_Jules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowgirl_Jules)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-cryptic-spam/373343/2 "2006-09-20T01:52:11Z")

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Are you sure it wasn’t just a lunchmeat tribute to “Talk Like a Pirate Day?” I mean, with the curses and all…

Arrr. Avast ye scurvy spam pirate and hoist the rusty spoon!

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-cryptic-spam/373343/3 "2006-09-20T16:58:34Z")

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Huh. Isn’t that the cursed spam from that Japanese horror movie that, if you post it on an Internet message board, everyone who reads it, dies?

Uh oh…