What Fresh Weirdness Is This?
I got this strange email today. On an account I never use. It must be some kind of creepy spam, right? The return address is in Greece.

Fush beshlomo
I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in aim at earth, and you will get neither.
Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
What is to give light must endure the burning. The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again.
The apparel oft proclaims the man. If it is not right do not do it if it is not true do not say it.
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.Great talker, great liar.

So, what's so bad about Birmingham?
At the end was an offer to meet a "hot chick." So that's what kind of spam it is! Several years ago I got some porn spam from "bigbutts.com." No thanks! But it always makes me laugh.