Yahoo! Mail's subject-o-matic provides endless stream of one-liners

by Brad Linder Jun 27th 2008

The email subject line. The bane of our existence. Back when Download Squad was just a wee little blog, we used to communicate the old fashioned way, by sending letters in the mail and waiting a week for them to arrive. It may not have been the most efficient way to keep in touch, but at least we didn't have to write subject lines.

Fortunately, Yahoo! has a hidden feature designed for the creativity-challenged. Can't come up with a clever or appropriate subject line for that email you're about to send? Just hit the subject button in the new version of Yahoo! Mail. Yahoo! will throw in a quote, funny phrase, or who knows what?

Here are just a few of the things that we found. Keep in mind, somebody must have taken the time to actually type these in there.

Do you use them for good, or for awesome?
I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message.
Hazards of storing plutonium in Tupperware
Why does Chinese food always taste better in front of a computer?
Fwd: Re: FW[2]: RE: re: [FWD] joke

[via Lifehacker and WebWare]

Tags: subject-lines, subject-o-matic, yahoo, yahoo-mail

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Adam said 6:29PM on 6-27-2008

This is a vestige left over from OddPost.com

Gutter said 6:29PM on 6-27-2008

Wow, this tools seems like the perfect way for your emails to end up in your recipient's spam folder

Jon said 10:26PM on 6-27-2008

this is the coolest thing ever

fisherusa said 11:01AM on 6-28-2008

While yahoo mail is great and I use it everyday, there are still some features of Outlook I wish Yahoo would work to add.

This random subject line text NOT being one of them.

I agree "GUTTER" .......... subject lines like "Hazards of storing plutonium in Tupperware"....... would go straight to my spam box.

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