A lot of the "anti-spam-filter" text in spam messages contains classic references. It's kind of a hobby checking some of these things out, as you did with this example. One sequence used text from some non-Oz Frank Baum book I had never even heard of.

There are, no doubt, programs that generate the text sequences automatically from chunks of literature fed into the system. It's the sources of the literature that are kind of amazing. It's like finding lines from "The Iliad" in a fortune cookie.

It conjures images of a literature professor, trapped in a job he would rather not do, in some room with a computer and all of his favorite old books, transcribing lines into the Spam Machine. And so much of this stuff comes from obscure overseas countries...

Got to be a story behind that somewhere.