Funny spam! The emails I mean ...

I rarely get to read any spam emails anymore thanks to the filtering work in the background that Gmail does. 

For the fun of it, I thought it might be interesting to open the "Spam" folder ... and the emails are so bizarre. 

Are there really that many suckers who fall into the trap that spammers set up?  I mean, even with subjects like the following?

Screaming hot saucy babesWatch Lindsay touch herself
Discover her g-spot
Be thicker, larger and harder
Carmen Electra nipple pictures
Pleasure her the right way
Denise Richards loves it behind
Big breasts and milky white skin
Make Scarlett moan in pleasure

Who the hell is Scarlett?  I am hoping that this is not yet another sequel to Gone with the Wind :)  In this, will Scarlett tell Mammy, "Tomorrow is another penis!"  Or will Rhett Butler declare, "Frankly, my dear, I prefer gay sex!"  muahahaha!!!  Reminds me of the different titles that they toss as possibilities in the movie Zach and Miri make a porno :)

And a whole lot of non-sexual spam, too:

Get the diploma fast and cheap
Rolex Sport top model
These young people taking jobs you deserve because you lack a degree
Why pin skipping speeds up your call

Is my PhD not enough? :)

"Hard" times for the porn industry :-)

It used to be a "chest" thumping claim that there was no recession in the porn industry. That it was nothing but "growth" year to year. Not anymore. This time, even the porn industry is "shrinking" and is "busted"; quote of the day:

Pornography in general has become “like potato chips, everywhere and cheap, to be consumed and tossed,” says Ms Hartley. It’s not the same as in the golden age when she joined. “The industry will shrink and stay shrunken,” she reckons.

Why economists and academics run into PR trouble!

Couldn't the economics professor have figured out a better way to convey the point instead of saying:

"With the exception of—possible exception of—prostitution, I don't know any other profession that's had no productivity advance in 2,500 years," he says.

And guess where he brings in this contrast? In the context of discussing online education!
Of course, my immediate thought was that through online prostitution gets the biggest bang for the buck; isn't that productivity? ha ha

Bailout for the porn industry. ha ha ha

Yes, this is a couple of weeks after the news item.  But, it was interesting to read Daniel Drezner's comments on this:

Flynt and Francis do make one penetrating insight in their complaint -- adult entertainment sales and rentals are shrinking much more quickly than overall DVD sales and rentals.  So it would be fair to say that compared to mainstream Hollywood, the adult entertainment sector is getting pounded.  Unless the economy can manage to mount a robust and vigorous upturn sometime soon, it makes sense for the adult entertainment industry to beg for a more direct and forceful stimulus package.

As I was reading it, I was sure that Drezner meant the double entendre "all the way".  I mean, look at the words he uses in the post: "penetrating", "shrinking", "getting pounded", "mount", "forceful stimulus package" ..... good going Professor Drezner :-)

BTW, the title of that post? "Things are hard all over the economy".  I tell you, university professors have a great sense of humor, despite popular myths!!!!

Maybe this is what Megan McArdle meant when she blogged that it is not possible to discuss the economics of the adult entertainment industry without the double entendres ....