Sorry, I haven’t rediscovered a taste for that pink stuff we used to be served for school dinners, instead I want to share with you one of the many spam emails we recieve on a daily basis. My Mum (Elly) is treasurer for a local charity, and the email address for the charity is on their webpage. All their emails come through to us and luckily we have very good anti-virus protection! Probably about once a week we get a real email, but the majority of the emails we get are spam.
We get a large number of money laundering type ones ‘we have discovered a bank account in Nigeria that has not been touched for over twenty years, and we want you to help us claim that money… blah blah blah‘, only in much worse English. But today we had one advertising a weightloss product. It made me laugh so much I just had to share some of it with you. (I have replaced the product name with ***)
Do you know excessive body kilograms kill very much people around the world? Or, maybe, you got no will to resist a siege of your pernicious eating habits. If it sounds familiar, then we got something for your consideration! Here you may see what people say to us on this product:
“This is a great thing! Instead of always glutting myself with food and watching TV continually I became rather more interested in exercise. *** made me stride on confidently.” Victoria K., New York
“I tried some passive weight losing, but with no result. I could not restrain my ravenous appetite. Once I was told about *** the media by and I was really effected at the information. I had tried taking it, and my wife said I’m not more a weighty man now, 5 months later.” Mike Brown, Bellevue WA
*** helps you to understand you got no such great need for the constant eating. It raises your spirit, provides you with additional energy, and attacks needless kilos. All thanks to its mighty newly-elaborated formula!!
Well there you have it. Who could possibly fail to resist that product?!?!
How do you order? Do they take credit cards?
Comment by Bird — March 31, 2007 @ 9:09 am
These things crack me up! Good English is apparently not in their marketing strategy. Who are the people who actually respond to these schemes?! It must work or they wouldn’t be doing it.
Comment by lady laura — March 31, 2007 @ 9:19 am
you got no will to resist a siege of pernicious eating habits
Freakin’ hilarious!!
I think “siege of pernicious eating habits” must hereby be part of the OWOA lexicon. So moved.
Newly elaborated… Oh MAN!
Comment by blestwithsons — March 31, 2007 @ 12:26 pm
Hey, Mike Brown is my neighbor! Just kidding.
But he almost could be.
Comment by Anita — March 31, 2007 @ 1:59 pm
I had visions of Monty Python upon reading this title and then was sorely disappointed after reading further… I will go back to my original visions now…
Comment by Leann — April 1, 2007 @ 6:34 pm
Another Monty Python fan? You have to be kidding me!!
Comment by Bethany — April 1, 2007 @ 7:33 pm
I am a fan, too!
Comment by missy — April 2, 2007 @ 3:11 pm