There’s nothing like seeing 978 unread emails in your inbox when you return from vacation to make you wish you were back on the beach soaking up the UV rays.

There’s one small consolation: about 40 percent of them are spam (woo hoo — so I only have 587 emails to answer!). And whoever is sending them out, particularly for pharmacy products, must be a Groucho Marx or W.C. Fields fan, because the names in some of the “from:” lines could be right out of Horsefeathers or My Little Chickadee: Fetlocks H. Governs (pharmacy spam), Andromache Berg (cell phones spam) and Westerners S. Thundercloud (pharmacy spam) are just a few of the better ones.

To paraphrase Fields: I like spammers … fried.

This entry was posted on Saturday, August 19th, 2006 at 9:17 am and is filed under Internet Stuff, Marketing Stuff.