I got nothin right now, so let’s dig around in the spam can and see if we can find anything amusing. Some of my recent spam comments really do make me laugh. Of course, it helps that Akismet is catching them and so I can see them without worrying that they are mixed in with legit comments. Here are some funny bits:
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\nThe first one is very uninteresting, except for the domain name of the site to which he links. First, the subdomain is:<\/p>\n
can-clothes-disco-fun-girl-have-her-lying-most-off-panic-taking-without<\/tt><\/p>\n
Keep in mind, that’s just the subdomain<\/em>. The actual domain is just:<\/p>\n hair-loss-baldness-remedy dot com<\/tt><\/p>\n Which is pithy by comparison. That subdomain is crazy. It sounds like a spammer was hit in the head (not a bad idea, really) and is just spouting off keywords at random.<\/p>\n I think this next guy has a bug in his spamutator: (links removed, of course)<\/p>\n Just found your home page its great, it looks like you folks do great service keep up the good work. Best regards!<\/p><\/div>\n Yes, best regards to you too, you festering worm-ridden boil on arse of humanity. These legit comments in disguise don’t work as well when you moosh them all together like this. Worse, it’s kind of a giveaway when you send the exact same thing a dozen times in an hour, innit?<\/p>\n A couple of nice<\/a> Japanese blogs<\/a> linked to me, which is always welcome. But now I notice the spammers think I’m a Japanese site, and I’m getting Japanese spam. Since I can’t read it, viagra ads are indistinguishable from poetry. I’m not used to seeing Japanese in this context, so it’s hard for me to think of it as spam. (The links help.) <\/p>\n It looks so graceful and strange, is this really an add for fake diet pills and snake-oil baldness cures? No! Surely this is some text pleading with the aging champion to lay aside his oath to never fight again, and to come and aid the kingdom in this dark hour, just as he did in times of old. Left unsaid by the author is the enduring love she has always had for him. Love between a princess and a fighter is forbidden, and her hand was promised to another since her birth. Now she mentions – only briefly – that this one she married has died in the war. Perhaps this subtle hint will rouse the legendary man to leave his quiet hut and garden, and face the darkness once again. <\/p>\n Another amusing thing is that I see spams that talk about pornography but the links (or at least the domain names) look like they point at the above-mentioned toy pharmaceuticals. Does having your spam masquerade as a different sort of spam really work? Next up:<\/p>\n You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got nothin right now, so let’s dig around in the spam can and see if we can find anything amusing. Some of my recent spam comments really do make me laugh. Of course, it helps that Akismet is catching them and so I can see them without worrying that they are mixed in with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNice site!
\nPlease now see my site:<\/p>\n
\nJust found your home page its great, it looks like you folks do great service keep up the good work.
\nHello there! Just want to say that I find your site enough interesting for me. Usefull information and all is good arranged. Thank you for your work. I will visit your site more ofter from now and I bookmarked it.<\/p>\n
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