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John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol II: "Wuthering Wire Transfers."

Xeni Jardin at 9:43 am Fri, Oct 10, 2008

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Today on Boing Boing tv, we continue our SPAMasterpiece Theater series, featuring author, PC, and minor television personality John Hodgman, whose new book, MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE launches next week.

Hodgman himself describes this series as the dramatization of "true tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails, received here by us and people like you -- what we call SPAM."

Today's installment: Barrister Abbey and Diana Khan in "Wuthering Wire Transfers," a tempting tale of financial transactions and naked lust that requires your soonest response.


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A note from our musical director: The adaptation of Jean-Joseph Mouret's "Rondeau: Fanfare" (1735) which opens today's episode was remixed in flagrante 8-bit by Hamhocks Buttermilk Johnson.

* Previously on Boing Boing tv: SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol. I

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • travelina

    This is great! Reminds me of Brian Sack and his Nigerian Email Experiment, in which he derived months of merriment at the expense and frustration of one “Dr. Abu Hassan”:
    http://www.banterist.com/archivefiles/000024.html

  • Jim S-G

    Just in case folks don’t recognize it – second SPAM is filled with a lot of Stephen King’s “Misery”

  • Xeni Jardin

    no way!!! I didn’t recognize the source of this word salad, thanks!