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Satire Wire's New Spam Poets Crowned

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the enlarge-your-boss dept.

Yorrike writes: "With over 600 entries, the winners of Satire Wire's Second Annual Poetry Competition have been announced. I guess my adaptation of Rime of the Ancient Mariner didn't make the cut ;)" Nothing like some howling laughter to cut through one's baleful bellows of pure spam-related rage.

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  1. Who decides? by TMacPhail · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who is it that decides on the winners of this contest? Personaly I dont think either the winner or runner up were really worthy of winning by comparison to some other entries. The winner looks like they simply took one SPAM e-mail and ocasionaly replaced a noun with the word "penis". The runner up just repeated the same phrase over and over again with one irregularity near the middle. I think neither of these took much creativity and that the win could have gone to a more worthy poem.

  2. What is, "is"? by DaftShadow · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I must respectfully disagree. The winner was able to show the chaotic beauty apparent in SPAM by applying a slightly altered take on Yo Momma. Why not try replacing "your penis" with "your mom"? It's just as funny due to the absurdities of SPAM. That's why it's all spam anyway, right? It's crazy, it's funky, it includes chinese nozzles; and it's all the same. Spam is cookie-cutter marketing, and the winner seemed the only person I saw that proved this subtle nuance. A blank sheet of paper can be art, and it is no less deserving of praise than when someone throws paint on a canvas. It doesn't beat a Picasso, but then again, there weren't too many Frosts in the contest either... - DaftShadow

    1. Re:What is, "is"? by DaftShadow · · Score: 2, Insightful
      I will gladly agree that the two with honorable mention were wonderfully painful, but I cannot say the same for Got Debt?. Besides the obvious ploy on a copywritten gimmick, it stresses the constant overflow of inboxes everywhere with the same thing. It seems a belief of Spammers (and probably founded to the 1/777% ) that by overloading the senses of a typical web monger they will, somehow, force the user to either choose going into cardiac arrest or buying the product.

      It also gives a little philosophical enjoyment for those who care to take the useless things in life further than they ever should be. You can pile schemes a mile high, but the situation you're living in now isn't going to change.

      -DaftShadow