I get spam pretty frequently, both at home and work...mostly because I've had the same email address for a long, long time, so the number of lists I've surrepticiously been added to is probably in the bajillions.

This morning, I got a very strange spam, unlike most others that I receive. Usually, I'm inundated by herbal remedies and home health "medications", which I'm sure many of you are probably familiar with...this one, however, wasn't sexually related, wasn't asking me to click links or receive money into my bank account from a nigerian refugee...it was actually rather interesting....here it is...if anyone know if this is from a book or poem, please let me know.

Oh, and if you were curious who Milton is...Google provided me a photo of him...http://onlineathens.com/images/090305/21620_512.jpg

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"No one with a pass has ever gone to the garage before. They haven't ninety, a hundred and twenty and faster still. The wing-strain now at a getaway. There it was, the cable, hanging down almost to the ground and of... curve... Then his featliers ruffled, he stalled and fell."
----- End of forwarded message from Milton Eubanks -----

Exception of type System.OutOfMemoryException was thrown.

Ok, I have to say this reminds me of college, working on some Apple Mac II's, and getting "An error of type -2 has occurred."

I was always baffled at the Apple error messages. Even Microsoft's cryptic errors are more explanatory than this. I mean...how many times have you gotten the blue screen with an error like IRQ_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL? At least you have some text there that gives you an indication of where the problem is. But "Type -2".....how do you have negative numbered errors in the first place?

But really that's not why I decided this was funny. What made me laugh was the whole "was thrown." That feels like corporate jargon to me.

"Oh yeah I was working on the new widget today but it totally threw an error and I was like, oh my gah!"

How exactly do you "throw" an exception. How far does it get thrown? Does someone catch the exception and make it exceptional? Do they throw it back? Should there be a followup message that says "Exceptional of type System.HasPlentyOfExceptionalMemoryNow was caught"?

Do I have too much free time on my hands?