Spam purveyors are apparently having a very tough time getting past Bayesian filters. Check out this one:

Subject: If you had a gold fish, you would ask for a bigger instrument.

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(The “site for everybody” text was a link to a Yahoo Groups group with a randomly generated name, which had already been pulled by the time I saw the message this morning, a few hours after receiving it.)

“Gold fish”? After much thought, I vaguely recalled a childhood tale of a fisherman catching a golden fish that traded some wishes for its freedom, but it was quite a stretch to link it to that subject line. And while “bigger instrument” is an oft-used term in such messages, unless you’re a musician or you work at a science lab, it’s unlikely to be a common and innocuous phrase in your e-mail messages. “Beef stick” is amusing though, I haven’t seen it in such messages before.

Nice try guys, but it was rated as 98%-probable spam here. “Keep practicing!” 🙂