Just what are they implying?

Spam's been coming in at slightly more than the usual steady trickle, these past few days. Not sure why. But that I get some, anyway, is pretty much inevitable... Got certain addresses that are necessarily very public, so there's not much getting 'round it. Spam filters usually keep it down to a dull roar.

Gets a little insulting, mind you, if you think about it.

I mean, let's see: over a few days, typically, I can usually expect the following sorts of traffic in this department:

• various pitches to buy Viagra and (I quote) 'herbal Viagra' at 'wholesale' prices,
• a few pitches to buy prescription painkillers over the counter,
• at least one or two occasionally disturbingly graphic come-ons to browse or buy various forms of hardcore porn—frequently covering an astonishing and educating range of sexual pecularities, through bestiality to even weirder proclivities,
• at least a letter or two from my long-lost cousin in Nigeria who (I quote again, though somewhat cleaning up his spelling) 'desires urgently to engage in business transactions with me' to move millions of dollars in bullion, diamonds or some other such lucre out of the country, if only I will pass along a few bank account numbers to him,
• besides a few come-ons for 'herbal diet aids'...

So, in other words, the consensus about me somewhere out there on the internet seems to me that I'm (i) fat, (ii) lonely, (iii) gullible, (iv) beset with an astonishing and entertaining range of unusual and disturbing fetishes, (v) addicted to prescription drugs, and (vi) impotent.

To which I have to say: hey, now. I resent that. My fetishes are mostly pretty standard.