First, congratulations to Heather Holloway for winning the Russian spam contest!

Heather, soon you will receive your very own prize: spam. The edible kind.

Might I suggest you try the winning recipes at Hard Hat Brotherhood. I particularly like the "Spam and Asiago Cheese on a Bagel" presentation.

I've finally gotten actual translations of the two Russian spam ads I posted.

Readers Dmitry S. and Vladimir L. wrote that both ads promote...spamming services! So I'm being spammed by people who want me to hire them to spam others. In Russian!

Dmitry says the cat ad is promoting spam services by mocking the usage of email chain letters, By the way, please don't ever send me an email saying that if I truly love God, I will forward this to ten other people. The cat ad says, "Send a kitten of happiness to 5 of your friends and the power be with you. E-mail spam, call +7 (495) 542-39-87".

Effective? No. But, look at it this way, my blog has unintentionally given this advertisement more exposure than the company could have ever hoped for.

The second ad I posted shows one guy fishing alone on the left, and a group on the right.

Dmitry and Vlad say it translates to: "Vasilij goes fishing in winter and catches little. 'It's hard to find clients these days', he says. But the guys from Ivan's team use different fishing methods. 'It's crisis everywhere, but we're doing alright', smiles the supervisor. "Catch you clients with big nets, not rods. Massive e-mail campaigns - millions in targeted audience."

At least they practice what they preach. I can't get rid of the stuff.

CORRECTION: On Friday, I called the Financial Crisis Most Wanted Playing Cards I picked a "flush". 

Yeah, I know, it's a "straight", as in, "my retirement was flushed straight down the toilet."

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