Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Don’t Let Your Leptonic Girlfriend Catch You!

That was the subject line in a spam email I got. I had to look up leptonic in the dictionary.

lepton–noun Physics.
any of a class of particles with spin of 1/2 that are not subject to the strong force and that are believed to be truly elementary and not composed of quarks or other subunits. The leptons known or believed to exist are the electron and electron-neutrino, the muon and mu-neutrino, and the tau lepton and tau-neutrino.

There aren’t any other definitions. MJ, is there something you need to tell me? The headline was a good one because after learning what a lepton was, I had to know more about elementary particle porn. Sure, I’ve dabbled in theoretical physics erotica – who hasn’t – but never in this particular sub-genre. I hesitated in opening the message but my curiosity and faith in AOL’s filters and LFA’s anti-virus software was too much for me to resist. There were pictures that AOL blocked and I did not unblock them. I know that things can’t be unseen once they’ve been seen, and I don’t have time to see a psychiatrist. I’ve cleaned up the one “sentence” message for the delicate sensibilities of my audience, but the gist of it was, “Thai MILF [performs filthy act] on young studs meloidae lophiidae lussazione cream pie.” Guess who was headed back to dictionary.com? Meloidae is the family of blister beetles: water, desert spider, oil, and a bunch of others. Lophiidae is the family of Goosefishes, the most famous being the Monkfish. Their livers, known as ankimo, are Japanese delicacies. Lussazione is an Italian word for dislocation in a medical sense, as opposed to a diasporatic sense. I’m almost 40% sure diasporatic is a word. There’s no way a person wrote that email message. Not even Sarah Palin using her word-a-day calendar could come up with that. Although it is remarkably close to her position on gay marriage. I just don’t understand how there could still be enough money in internet porn to buy a random email spamming program. Because, at the end of the day, I didn’t go to whatever website they were pimping. I learned a lot. I got a blog post out of it. But they didn’t make any money, unless there’s a huge conspiracy between Google, dictionary.com, and whatever bug site I went to to learn about blister beetles. Then again, maybe High Times should get right on this.

4 comments:

MJ said...

Read this one at lunch--although I'm surprised it wasn't blocked. Very entertaining! (I'm definitely not leptonic.) I'm so relieved to know you have enough sense not to open the pictures.

JSG said...

Soo jealous. They just try to sell me viagra!

Cora Spondence said...

For a moment, the end of your blog was starting to sound like closing moments of any episode of Doogie Houser, MD. Another classic post, dude.

tainij said...

You had me laughing out loud. I just delete those things because they offer me products that are of no earthly (or unearthly) use to my anatomy. I'm adding leptonic to my vocabulary; thanks for looking it up.