Endocrinology the Bob Marley Way
Topic: Adventures in Spam

From time to time it becomes apparent that the Internet really IS the Great Equalizer.

Every day, I see spam Email scams that only people who grew up speaking English would have tried to pull on native English-speakers a few short years ago being attempted by people with an incomplete command of the grammar and idiom of our language.

NOW, the nature and density (you'll see what I mean) of the errors in many spam Emails suggests a Caribbean or other non-Anglo-American point of origin. Now, far be it from me to suggest that this alone would make such spam automatically inferior to domestic British or American spam... on the contrary, these attempts at electronic hucksterism have a certain charm that more technically proficient spam lacks.

Example:

"Enjoy your lifetime with Somebody Increase Internal Secretion

After the 21 years, your trunk slowly checks releasing a important hormone known as Soul Growth Internal Secretion.

The step-down of it, which governs grades of other internal secretions in our physical structure is at once responsible for many of the greatest general signs of growing old, for example wrinkles, gray light hair, fell energy, and vitiated intimate purpose.

(link) Read additional info... "

Now, doesn't that make good-old-fashioned spam seem cold and impersonal by comparison?

This new bit of spam reminds me of Peter Tosh's "Legalize It," most famously covered by Bob Marley and the Wailers, which extols the many medical benefits of marijuana, cannabis, ganja -

"It's good for the flu
It's good for asthma
Good for tuberculosis
Even umara composis

Legalize it - don't criticize it
Legalize it and I will advertise it"

Of course, the Caribbean tone I perceive in the message could have something to do with the steadily increasing accumulation of snow here in metropolitan Denver, and a subliminal wish on my part to be where snow never accumulates just now.