SAT Prep Random Poetry and Demented Mad Libs

[tmcg]

edematous strabismic embower obstruent bilharziasis

If not for spam, where would you routinely run across such vocabulary?

There's found poetry in these things. Granted, it's demented poetry that only gamebot could love, but still. Plucked from the preview lines in my spambox:

Exultant married insomnia.
Bingham rent tolerable bloodbath processor.
Goat nile complaint insidious.
Distinguish cosmopolitan singlehanded baltic value.
Amoral hewn sinew backlog.
Economy lockgarbage.

Through concatenation, one spam provided me with the word "corpsechafe," which I love and must find somewhere to use. It would be a good name for one of the bonefolk, I think.

Then there's the Mad Libs effect. Pulled bloody and wriggling from a raw spam:

A blonde sheridan was driving along the caret when a tartary police enos pulled her carl for perquisite.

dissipate: May i see your lurid?

advert: what does it look lopsided?

canaan: its a directorate thing with a baleful of you on it.

The darlene looks lattice her lumen and horoscope out her cocktail magistrate and hands it to the officer.

The discoid opens it up and says if you had divination me you were a inconvertible apache I wouldn't have duquesne you over.

Comments

[larryhammer]

Sounds a lot like the results of certain verse generators.

---L.

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

It does!

I love the sonnet generator at that last one. The meter adds oomph.

The first one gave me a haiku I liked right off the bat:

prince flies, face squelching
anacondas consuming
idly, drums catch, green

[larryhammer]

Amazing how stochastic processes can mimic surrealism (instead of incoherence) given a large enough random number generator. I keep meaning to post my complete collection of these things in my LJ; the differences between various types is facinating.

---L.

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

Oh, do post it! I'm very interested in seeing that.

[lenasawyer.livejournal.com]

What spam was that? I need that bloodbath processor for a novel idea I have.

;>

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

And you know, they're always trying to sell me those darn bloodbath processors, but I keep deleting the messages. Drat!

[slithytove.livejournal.com]

If not for spam, where would you routinely run across such vocabulary?

Except for 'embower', these are medical terms.

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

Huh! True. They're the ones I thought were the most interesting from a long string. The others, which I forget now, seemed like words that most people would be familiar with, and thus not so nifty in that SAT-prep sort of way.