Who needs “Word of the Day”, when you have spam?

My spam email seems to be getting ever more bizarre by the minute. In what I presume is an attempt to defeat bayesian spam filters, the spamers are filling their emails with random obscure words. I just got a mortgage approval email with the subject heading “Re: bellicose voluble”, which almost sounds like it might be a google-whack (it’s not though), and my bulk mail folder is stuffed full of messages with subject titles like…

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Addicted to text

As the updated reading list on the right of the screen will testify, I’ve been buying books again, even though I haven’t finished reading the last lot. Which is odd really, as I only went out last night to go to Sainsbury’s to pick up bread rolls and toilet duck (which might in itself sound odd, but at least I knew that my shopping selections would be safe from Richard Herring-style checkout assistant scrutiny, as…

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