Monday, May 19, 2003

Get Length and Mass

A regular Hotmail account user receives an average of eight junk mails each day. (I don't have the stats to back this statement, but I have the account to prove it.) From the good old "Become bigger and longer, safely and naturally" to the overly generous mortgage bargains like "Borrow up to 125% of your homes", having your business / personal email account bombarded by e-flyers is no less annoying than having telemarketers gobble up your cellular airtime. But if you are like me and have a separate to-be-disclosed-on-public-web email address, junk mail can be a preferred pastime to Solitaire.

As a tribute to the copywriters who squeeze every drip of their brain juice to come up with the catchy subject lines to these soliciting mails, I have gathered up a list of my all-time favorites.

***Top Five Junk Mail Subject Lines***

5. Turn Pennies into Dollars
This one only made the list because I misread it and thought it suggested a new business trend, ...yeah, dirty-minded me.

4. 100% FREE archive of PEEING TEENS
Seriously, is the peeing thing in now? Are guys out there getting aroused every time they take a leak? If so, doesn't the task become rather tricky?

3. Re:
A good example of "less is more". I gotta admit, there were times when I was tempted to click in and see if it's really anyone I know.

2. She laughed at your prick huh
Just another way of phrasing "Become bigger and longer..." But hey, creativity counts! Though this one is rather insensitive, I feel sorry for the guys reading this and secretly thinking "now here's someone who understands".

1. Make me scream your name (Oh GOD)
This one just cracked me up! (Oh GOD)