I opened the email account at work and I found this. I don't know if it's regular SPAM, but this is the first time I get something like this.
Email subject: ke the greater island of
Email body: Les, bodies of rebels and American marauders harassed the frontier settlements for some time, until at last the authorities of the United States arrested some of the leaders and forced them to surrender their arms and munitions of war. In Upper Canada the folly of Sir Francis Head {353} would have led to serious consequences had Mackenzie and Rolph been capable of managing a rebellious movement. The Lieutenant-Governor allowed all the troops to go to Lower Canada, and the capital was entirely at the mercy of the rebels, had they acted with any spirit or energy. Dr. Rolph, a clever intriguer--who was to be the president of the new republic--was playing a fast and loose game, and temporised until the loyal forces from Hamilton were able to advance to the assistance of Head. Had the rebels, who were concentrating at Montgomery's tavern on Yonge Street, marched immediately on the capital, it could have been easily captured, in consequence of the neglect of Head to take the most ordinary precautions against surprise. Toronto was mainly saved by the men of the Gore district, led by Allan MacNab, an ardent loyalist, afterwards a baronet and premier of Canada. The insurgents, who at no time exceeded eight hundred in all, were routed at their headquarters. Rolph had previously thought it prudent to fly, and Mackenzie soon followed. Several lives were lost during this _emeute_, for it was hardly more, and a considerable number of prisoners taken.
Among the latter were Samuel Lount, an ardent reformer, the first to arm for the rebellion, and Colonel Von Egmond, one of Napoleon's soldiers, the leader of the "patriot army." Marshall Spring Bidwell, an able and moderate leader of the Reformers, for some years speaker, does not appear to have taken any active part in the rebellious movement, but he availed himself of a warning given him by Head, who wished {354} to get rid of him as quietly as possible, and hurried to the United States, where he remained for the remainder of his life. Mackenzie also fled to the Republic, and industriously set to work to violate the neutrality of the country by inciting bands of ruffians to invade Canada. As in the case of the Fenian invasion many years later, the authorities of the United States were open to some censure for negligence in winking at these suspicious gatherings avowedly to attack a friendly country. The raiders seized an island just above Niagara Falls, on the Canadian side, as a base of operations, and a steamer, called the _Caroline_, was freely
And then there's an ad offering me viagra, cialis, and something to enlarge my penis.
Canada and US history lesson + viagra... WTF?!?!?!
Is this common?
It was nice of the loyalist of Hamilton to come to Head's assistance.
And no, Ive never seen spam quite like that. I get a ton of viagra, etc spam at work, and the ones that claim some prince or widow wants to give me $100000000000000000 if I just give them my bank account # and 3 cows.
maybe the penis enlarging this is using that as its marketing strategy.
I see. Maybe it's supposed to trigger off some unconscious mechanism that links Yonge Street to your thoughts regarding the size of your penis, so as to generate an irrepressible impulse of wanting to enlarge it. It's quite clever!
Too bad I had no idea Yonge Street existed until today. And of course, too bad I don't have a penis :oP.
it was really a poor poor marketing strategy. Or maybe a good one, but directed at the whole person, in the wrong country, with the wrong parts.
Speaking of email ridiculousness, i just checked my work junkmail, as I do from time to time to make sure nothing I need got put in there by mistake, and there was someone asking about Miss Saigan. Miss Saigan was here TWO years ago. I was just about to hit reply on my response and realized it was sent July 28, 2008. How did I JUST get it?
