Just lately, I've started getting more spam email than usual. I don't get a lot of it, because I'm careful about giving out my email addresses, and in fact most of the spam is addressed to one particular "alias" address which I'll delete, just as soon as I get around to it.

This week, things have gotten.. err... odd.

The emails, for what I suspect are porn sites have had subject lines that are either randomly-generated strings of words, or are written by someone for whom English is not a first language, or indeed, a second or third language.

Today alone, I had emails with the following subject lines:

• "Can you believe that the sober beige spaceship atop the Bolivian rental cars seems to be lame?"
• "It really bizarrely desires somewhat testily to crave his torrential jelly bean."
• "The gamma ray of ugliness slowly tells that some sadly killing bridges stupidly think of seeming to be Rumanian!"

Heaven knows what they were whilst composing those.

Although, if you've ever walked around Swindon town centre on a Saturday, you might be familiar with the effects of a "Gamma Ray of Ugliness".