# Unusual email subject lines **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 14, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069 "2007-05-14T18:10:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/1 "2007-05-14T18:10:12Z")
I just got an email with the subject “Guidance on Feral Rodent Carcass Disposal.” It’s work related - of course. 😃 I have heard that spam can have some interesting subject lines, but I haven’t seen any personally. Has anything amusing turn up in your mailbox? ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/2 "2007-05-14T18:16:32Z")
I get lots of email with unusual subject lines, but my spam filter catches most of it. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/3 "2007-05-14T22:51:05Z")
I just reviewed my work In box to see if anything looked fun and I must say I win most boring email subject lines. It was much more exciting when I was collecting info on the tissue digestor, eh,\*\* MM\*\*?? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dunawake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dunawake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunawake)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/4 "2007-05-15T00:10:43Z")
Because I’m at a pharma research company, I get various emails for seminars where the only word I recognize in the titles is “the” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/5 "2007-05-15T01:07:27Z")
[QUOTE=Dunawake] Because I’m at a pharma research company, I get various emails for seminars where the only word I recognize in the titles is “the” 😛 [/QUOTE] Oh, I know that feeling. I’m on the med school academic annoucement list, they don’t speak english! 😕 School of pharmacy is even worse. I also get messages about research studies looking for human subjects. One study uses the line “Do you have herpes!” :eek: Currently, there are a couple of studies for a new form of birth control. You’d have to be very brave - or OK with an unexpected child - to join that group! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/6 "2007-05-15T01:26:57Z")
My favorite ever spam mail subject-line was recounted [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=125103&highlight=free). Someone linked this over the weekend, but this is my new favorite site: [Spamusement](http://spamusement.com/). **Hello Me Not Dead** and **Heath Warning** had me laughing like a crazy person 😛 ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/7 "2007-05-15T03:18:00Z")
Legitamate messages: Refreshingly Green The Evolution of Spam Escaped Bear accesorizes pillows and causes havoc in suburbia! Thanks to YOU! The winner comes from the spam folder: Y re: nasdaq: PGGG - Long White Candlestick/Bullish Engulfing 983495680180488840170 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/8 "2007-05-15T07:27:05Z")
I had to go looking on an old Yahoo account to find some spam, but today it consists of: He my butterfly forceps Re: Looki.ng for frie.nd? But recurring is feeble R.e: Pos.sibl…e meeting it of rutabaga hi An facultative many matins ---
**Author:** ![m1k3g](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@m1k3g](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/m1k3g)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/9 "2007-05-15T14:30:07Z")
I tend to get a lot of work-related junk that I consider spam. Not too long ago I replied to one ‘survey’ from an IT magazine with the following: First Name: Upyours Last Name: YouSpammingIdiots Then I filled in the rest with completely off the wall answers. Shortly thereafter, I got the following email from their system. “Thank you Upyours YouSpammingIdiots for choosing Network World’s e-mail newsletters.” Who says you can’t have fun with spam? ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/10 "2007-05-15T14:45:33Z")
The “funniest” one in my inbox right now is “Eggs Are Ready!” which pretty much is only funny in context of **MM** ’s birth control study. 😛 (This one is actually for farm eggs I’m going to buy this summer. Green, pink and brown eggs! Fun!) In Yahoo I find: I’ve got a 12 inch bison I’ve got a 8 inch… mic ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/11 "2007-05-15T19:54:59Z")
[QUOTE=Mouse\_Maven] I also get messages about research studies looking for human subjects. One study uses the line “Do you have herpes!” :eek: Currently, there are a couple of studies for a new form of birth control. You’d have to be very brave - or OK with an unexpected child - to join that group! [/QUOTE] I get these too. My latest one was: “Did you have ACL Reconstruction with patellar tendon autograft?” I’m not sure even people who did know for sure … ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/12 "2007-05-16T12:45:05Z")
I got one today from a sender calling itself ‘collectively’ - the subject was: **Foreach compile-time AddressTable object defined in the object treecompiler tries to find and read the file specified in the objectconfiguration.** ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/13 "2007-05-16T13:19:58Z")
The most fun spam one I have right now is **Drugs all over the world!** ---
**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:** [May 16, 2007, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/14 "2007-05-16T14:25:16Z")
I’ve had every possible variant on Nigerian financial “opportunities,” penis enhancement and CHEAP DRUGS NOW!!! Bleh. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/15 "2007-05-16T14:30:03Z")
I had a manager once send out an email to the entire group of us titled “It’s time for the spank-the-monkey test.” :eek: Much giggling ensued. And yes, the guy was so white-bread clueless that he had no idea what spank-the-monkey meant. I almost felt sorry for him, but not quite, because he was kind of an ass. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/16 "2007-05-16T15:51:10Z")
Some of the more interesting recent spam titles from my throwaway box: On cleghorn everything chamberino No merrimac no ainsworth do the mellette Even snakes need love. But actually everything gualala You should hear him roar. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/17 "2007-05-16T15:56:28Z")
[QUOTE=fluiddruid] No merrimac no ainsworth [/QUOTE] Yeah, but they’ve got a point here; the number of times I’ve had to threaten my kids “no merrimac, no ainsworth! Don’t pretend you haven’t heard me! If you want ainsworth, you can darn well merrimac first, OK?” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Unkempt\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Unkempt\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Unkempt_One)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/18 "2007-05-16T17:12:29Z")
From the Spam Folder: > [@](#): > > Can you remove a man’s head? ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/19 "2007-05-16T17:18:27Z")
Well this one is my favorite so far: Бесплатно: консультация, выезд курьера, выборка по отраслям и регионам! Hahahah! Haha! Ha…heh…ahem. (Please, someone tell me what it means, for the love of God!) ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069/20 "2007-05-16T17:23:34Z")
[QUOTE=fluiddruid] On cleghorn everything chamberino No merrimac no ainsworth do the mellette Even snakes need love. But actually everything gualala You should hear him roar. [/QUOTE] My brain is now trying to fit this to a reggae tune. I’ll let you all know if it works. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-email-subject-lines/404069.md?page=2)