Most of the spam this forum gets is only visible to the mods because we’ve required mod approval for new users. But we do get some weird spam. I thought that some of today’s could be particularly inspiring, so if you’re looking for an idea, I might just have a title for you!
Huh. All four titles literally jumped out at me as, if not fully-formed, then at least viable story ideas in their own right. It seems spam mails do have value after all.
I have to ask, those titles were out of how many duds?
Not too many duds today, less than 10 total at the time I think. There were even two How to Become a Goddess topics, from two different users. It’s back to christian louboutin and oakley now though.
I think those would work best as chapters of the same work. (It’s about a high-school girl who, in a secret life, moonlights as the European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy.)
Today there are two very prolific Russian spammers with over 30 attempted topics each. (Well they’re posting in Cyrillic at least.) Oh wow, they’re actually changing their avatars quickly too. However here are some new ones:
I don’t think I misspelt anything there? They’re not directly elected, but there is an election for the EU parliament later this year. Then the parliament elects the commission.