January 20th, 2004
The Top 8 Benefits of Spam
8> Finally!!!!!! Someone else out there shares your love of exclamation points!!!!!!!!
7> Downloading it keeps the phone line tied up, ensuring that conventional telemarketers never get through
6> Each message you delete burns 1/10 calorie and builds muscle tone in your index finger.
5> Stand-up comedians have something to talk about other than bad airline food.
4> All the spam traffic keeps the Internet from running too fast and burning out.
3> “But boss, I have 187 new e-mail messages to respond to today.”
2> Provides gainful employment to all those barely-legal cheerleaders, discount ink cartridge manufacturers and diamond-toting Nigerian ex-colonels.
and the Number 1 Benefit of Spam…
1> By cutting and pasting individual letters and digits, they can be easily recycled into new e-mail messages.
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Credits:
Selected from 47 submissions from 16 contributors.
Today’s Top 5 List authors are:
Doug Crews, San Diego, CA — 1
Bill Livingston, Decatur, AL — 2, 7
Matt Van Opens, Kenosha, WI — 3, Topic
Arthur Levesque, Laurel, MD — 4
Matt Hurlburt, Stow, OH — 5
Julie Nusbaum, Hamilton IN — 6
Chris Lipe, Rome, NY — 8
Kim Moser, New York, NY — List Moderator