Oddest spam ever, but happy, I guess

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This morning amongst the usual 3 dozen ads for generic Viagra and pills that supposedly will add 3 inches to my raging member, I found this:

-----Original Message-----
From: Balaram [mailto:NitaiGouranga@aohell.com]
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 5:38 AM
To: El_Kabong@mydrearylittlecubicle.com
Subject: Gouranga
Call out Gouranga be happy.
Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga.
Say Gouranga my friend…
Gouranga…That which brings the highest happiness.

-------End of message------

Alrighty then. C’mon, everyone, chant along with me:

Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga.
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Feeling happier yet? No? Well let’s try this one, then:

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlej…

sound of muffled thumps

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You too?
I’ve received three of these and for the life of me, I can’t figure out what in the hell it means or where the emails are coming from.

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Ah - I thinkm it is some religous group - I recall seeking posters or stickers exhoorting me to sing out Gouranga and be happy.

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Go-rang-ah?

Gow-ransha?

Gour (rhymes with pour) - rang - ah?

Now I know why I don’t have the highest happiness. :frowning:

5

Isn’t Gouranga what Hari Krishna’s chant?

It’s some kind of cult thing… but they should at least provide a local number to which you can join the cult in question.

:confused:

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Yes, it seems this “Gouranga” meme is fairly common in the UK. Plugging the word into Google returned quite a lot of stuff, but perhaps the most pertinent was this page from the Guardian newspaper:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-21228,00.html

Upshot is, no one there seems to know what the hell it’s supposed to mean either, except that its somehow related to the Hare Krishna movement. Whether its some sort of guerilla E-mailing by Krishnas, or a bizarre advertising scheme for the “Grand Theft Auto” game(!), however, is unknown.

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Probably some new reality show on Fox.

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I remember it from GTA (Grand Theft Auto) games by Rockstar Studios. When you ran over all the members of a marching band in a city with a car, a giant GOURANGA would pop up on your screen.

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Marching band? They were chanting Hari Krishnas.

(There was a nice marching band level in Postal, though.)

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I’ve been recieving, every day, random paragraphs from a book about the life of PT Barnum, with the subject “Alereon, highs today after record breaking lows.” I’m expecting the clocks to start melting at any moment.