Thursday, June 16, 2005

Help!

3pm

Say you're buying movie tickets online. Say you get a window that looks like this:

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How long are you supposed to actually wait? Its been about 8 minutes now...

3:09pm

I gave up and closed the window. I went back and ordered again. This time I got a confirmation right away. Is there any chance I won't be charged twice? I better check my email and see if I got 2 confirmations...

3:15pm

Only one confirmation, but wow, I get a lot of spam email for penis help - Viagra, Cialis, Levitra.

These are some of the subject lines of the spam I get:

  • Re: A clean the confabulate
  • Of send my marrowbone
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  • her need he arugment indisposition

Aside from the advertisements for their drugs, the bodies of the emails also contained the following messages:

  • It got late, and Harlan, Anton, Brian and the many thousands of krill took off, December, there is a complete sentence (Season's Greetings from the
  • it's a straight line." In the words of Karin Foreman, "That and innovative ideas for the future. Total Recall is one movie
  • Football Team, and so on. At least Brown has interesting, if wacky, ideas. Although some electronic galleries will probably develop their
  • to take my honey, I may kill him." Jupiter was much displeased, ground and limped away, howling dreadfully. His yelling soon
I assume that these subject lines are randomly selected words and that the messages are snippets automatically picked out of text from websites or something, all in an effort to beat spam-blockers. I'm glad our top minds are working for shady penis-help marketers.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

you used fandango? i always see those ads at teh movies but didnt know anyone used it. i wondered why you chose to use it. also, what did you go see and how was it?

chuck zoi said...

I saw Batman, and was slightly concerned that it might sell out. This was the 2nd time I've used it, and I've found it convenient.

Batman was very very good.

Anonymous said...

does it cost extra money, if so how much? when you buy it are you reserving your ticket or can you actually print a ticket with your printer?

i suppose if i really cared i could look on fandangos website but id rather ask you...

chuck zoi said...

I did cost extra, no more than $1/ticket, probably less, not sure. When I got to the theatre, there was some ATM-looking thing I swiped my card and it spat out the tickets.