
Spammers are bad enough. But they're now succeeding in getting a small amount of spam into my Inbox -- by quoting classic literature.
I've seen a lot of poetry, but today, this appeared at the bottom of a SPAM message that got through:
Tastes differ, murmured the dragonette, slowly drooping its scaley eyelids over its yellow eyes, until they looked like half-moons If you have no love for science or for the advancement of civilization, DO have some consideration for your fellow-creatures, and for me! If my fellow-creatures would have as much trouble with your electrical inventions as I had, I am doing them a service by depriving them of your devices, said the boy
Being reassured by the fact that the creatures could not crawl out of their rock-pockets, the children and the Wizard now took time to examine them more closely As for yourself, I've no fault to find with you, personally
L. Frank Baum is spinning in his grave. Worse, it's not even from a single source. Half is from
Dorothy and The Wizard Of Oz and the other half is from
The Master Key.
Arg.