You folks that have stumbled onto this site or intentionally decided to come here know that I am an observer of things of all sorts in a Sherlock/Mycroft Holmesian sort of way. Well, today's crap emails...I think calling them spam does a GREAT disservice to an ABSOLUTELY delicious canned product of my youth...spark some thoughts about what I'll call The Crap Email Year. Here's how it goes:January to about April: The incoming material has to do with sex, your loved ones, and Viagra and all its associated products. (Preliminary and follow-up to National Procreation day, a.k.a. Valentine's Day.)
April to June: A handful of viagra ads (for summer fun, I suppose) and a proliferation of "Buy Your PhD" ads and the QVC wannabees of jewelry (I suppose for graduation gifts).
June to August: Vacation possiblities and naked Angelina Jolie and Others videos for your summer time entertainment possibilities, I suppose.
August to October: Vegas ripoffs, makeovers of all sorts (I guess so you can be El Spiffo for Fall Term), and a smattering more of watches and other sellable junk.
October to December: Another smattering of Viagra et al offerings (I guess they figure it's time to renew your prescription), some pre-Christmas odds and ends, and a TON of rolodex and other junk offers for the Silly Season, as Mel Gibson's character, Martin Riggs says in"Lethal Weapon."
Oh, for you not-Sherlock-Holmes-fans...Mycroft is his portly brother who is even more brilliant than old Sherlock but stays within a circumscribed area in London learning everything, knowing everything, and saving the British Government's Victorian Bacon behind the scenes! Yes, Yes... I actually read the ENTIRE Holmes 2-volume opus from beginning to end last year or the year before. It was elementary, my dear Watson!!
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