Elton John Dies in Rocketship...and Other Rockers

Top Ten Rock 'n' Roll Spam Headlines

I'll be honest...this is my junk blog...although in all "modesty" there's some nuggets in here on occasion. Speaking of which, I recently went searching for nuggets in the least likely of places: spam email subject headlines.


This spam headline in my email inbox at work not too long ago, Elton John Dies in Rocketship, had me laughing...and thinking: How much do those spam headline writers get paid?

Now, I know some of you will say "Ya, I get those, too! You know those erectile dysfunction spams and the like." Well, sure we all get those, but it is this rock 'n' roll play on stars, their song titles and lyrics that got me going.

So, around work we came up with some really good ones, like "John Mellencamp Crushed By Pink House," "Jon Bon Jovi Found Shot Through the Heart," "Bob Dylan Flattened By Rolling Stone," and "Otis Redding Found Floating Under Dock By the Bay."

My next step was to take this "assignment" to my buddies at BlogCatalog. We had lots of fun with it over there. Out of the more than 100 submissions, I decided to chose my picks for Top Ten. These are in no particular order and you'll see the winning BC member's blog name, linked up.

Without further adieu, here are the

TOP TEN ROCK 'n' ROLL SPAM HEADLINES

Joe Walsh Shot By an Ordinary Average Guy
McWriters

Making Love in an Elevator proves fatal for Aerosmith
Mattias Xpress

Big Shot Billy Joel arrested in Allentown with Uptown Girl
McWriters

Jefferson Airplane Collides With Starship
The Electric Egg Cream

Billy Joel Goes to Extremes but Says He Didn't Start The Fire
Of Cabbages and Kings

Ozzy Osbourne Run Over by a Crazy Train
Tommy Buettner Blogging Sports

David Bowie Abducted by Life on Mars
Astonishing Adventures of Lord Likely

James Taylor Flattened by Steamroller
Real World Connections

AC/DC Bus Crashes on Highway to Hell
Rob's Megaphone

Cat Stevens Run Over By Peace Train
TheScroogeReport

Many thanks to all those who participated at BlogCatalog. There were many winners!

Bloggers Unite: Algeria and Christian Persecution

You still have a chance to visit the great work of bloggers in an effort called Bloggers Unite for Human Rights.

Here is my contribution:

Algeria: Carry a Bible, Go to Jail

While many of the cultural battles centered on religion in the U.S. involve legal positioning on church and state issues, very real physical persecution of faith exists in many other parts of the world.

A few websites monitor and report on these atrocities, many of which go with little mention or unreported in the mainstream media. Two sites whose mission includes reporting on religious persecution are Compass Direct News and Persecution Blog

Here’s a recent example of persecution. This from Compass Direct News:

ALGIERS, Algeria, May 9 – An Algerian Christian detained five days for carrying a Bible and personal Bible study books was handed a 300-euro (US$460) fine and a one-year suspended prison sentence last week, an Algerian church leader said.

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