At first, I thought there was some sort of bug in Yahoo Mail that was causing it to grab subject lines from my spam folder, since many of the messages had that trying-too-hard quality found in spam.
For example I could upload my eBook to the public folder on Dropbox and grab the link it gave me so that I could paste that into my blog and anyone could download it.
So, I blow away an experimental copy of one of my important folders, which appears to have popped up in the Pictures folder, even though it was never there before, and lo and behold!
Like a nuclear missile silo, my agency's Vatican file had its own doomsday file - a hardbound manila folder on which a typewritten sticky label had emblazoned in telex font capitals: WHAT TO DO IN CASE THE POPE DIES. While many of the instructions dated back to 1961 and could be safely ignored, it was still an interesting study in panic.