Now I know where my fellow English majors who didn\’t make the switch to IT careers wound up: they\’re writing spam copy for discount software houses. I got a spam today with this bit of text at the bottom to make it look like a legit email:
1ps4D6u49Rro3Ze55RdI was sub-divisional police officer of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-European feeling was very bitter.Why ask why? For at that time I had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing and the sooner I chucked up my job and got out of it the better.290109635
The savvy among you will recognize the origin two of those sentences as George Orwell\’s \”Shooting an Elephant.\” The first one is from the opening paragraph. The third is from the second paragraph. Between the two? An old slogan for Bud Light. Odd.