Going Up In The World

Spam is a strange beast (the junk e-mail, that is — I'm not trying to suggest they actually put meat in Spam). Not for any deep or clever reason that I intend to use to show of my wit and intelligence. Just because it can be, well, odd. Particularly when people start sending spam like this out:

"I am creating a web directory, The-Insight.com, and would like to include your website Grudge-match.com under the "health/massage therapy and bodywork" category."

Now, anyone who has visited Grudge Match should know that it doesn't fit particularly comfortably into the "health/massage therapy and bodywork" category. It should also be reasonably clear that I am in no way responsible for it. In all honesty, I don't know whether to hope that a person could be so strangely stupid as to make both mistakes or that a program that terrible could get made, tested and implemented without somebody noticing that it served no useful function.

The worst part, of course, is that both are probably true.