You know all those emails you get from real people where it's obvious some spammer has hijacked the email address of the person and has sent you some crap and the subject line has some two-word phrase (typically a modifier-adjective combo)?

Well, those things drive me nuts.

Why?

I actually get a lot of legit emails from people with subject lines like "disturbing flippant," "outrageously self-absorbed," and "brilliantly insightful." So I have to check through all this stuff, always looking for the "Tom/Dr. Barnett" at the top of the email that says it's a real email (whether I care for the message is--of course--a different thing!).

I dunno, maybe this approach drives other people nuts too, or maybe I just get a lot of over-the-top email so I'm particularly vulnerable to this latest trend.