While certainly no contender to unseat the reigning "best spam" champion, the following unsolicited e-mail did make me wonder what I was supposed to purchase. Perhaps it is a covert advertisement for a new dictionary containing words you never knew existed.

From: "Rita Hebert" rosadorzu@mail2000.com.tw
Subject: Rich man looking for a woman
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 02:01:54 -0700

philosophic ugandahey meaningful invariantbud
quantitative sawtoothclassmate sailfish suffragediscipline
walgreen wastrelcompton bowen metricmobcap
abridgment dyspepticodessa glossed draftygreenwood
aurelius bosevienna

Just for fun, I decided to deconstruct and/or look-up some of the odd words from this e-mail. Here are my findings.

ugandahey: Not a word, but truncating the suffix "hey" leaves Uganda, an eastern African country.

wastrelcompton: Wastrel I discovered is "someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently." Meanwhile, Arthur Holly Compton was an American physicist (1892—1962) noted for x-ray, gamma ray and nuclear energy research.

bowen: Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897—1973) was an American writer who focused on quasi-fictional biographies.

aurelius: More people from history! Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180) was the Roman Emperor in charge when the Empire started to fall.

bosevienna: An audio product of Austria.                        ...just kidding