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On Having to Push the Pram a Lot

Every day or so an automated web crawler (I assume) lands on the latest article I have written on this site and attempts to leave a comment. These are usually something along the lines of ‘wow, great blog’, along with a dubious looking website address. Presumably, the point of these is to compliment me into publishing their comment, and then have their dodgy pill-sellin’, penis-enlargin’ website rise up the google hierachy by having lots of incoming links from similarly charmed bloggers.

Luckily, Wordpress has a fairly sophisticated spam filter that allows me to delete each of these univited comments with the click of a button (it also, occasionally catches a ‘real’ comment, usually about Billywitches, which I then have to approve. I know, poor me).

Anyway, recently they’ve been trying to catch me out by asking whimsically rhetorical questions which have actually made me laugh (sometimes OL). I regret deleting most of these, because they seem to have dried up now, but here’s one that I did save:

I’m always reading about the “Great Apes.” What’s so great about them? How come we never hear about any “Paltry Apes”?

Yeah! Right frickin’ on! Stupid apes… If all spam was like this, I would definitely be the happiest Blogger in the Blogosphere of these United Blogs of Blogvania.

This entry was posted on Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:06 pm and is filed under Reasons to be Cheerful. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “On Having to Push the Pram a Lot”

Voice of the Silent Majority Says:
December 5th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Well I’ve come back and was pleased to find a new reference to BillyWitches. However it is only in passing. I cannot help but be upset that you are still resisting the will of the public by not publishing more articles on Billywitches. So come on http://www.theboysaunders.com do as the public wants and provide more Billywitch arcticles.

The Voice of the Silent Majority
Phil Saunders Says:
December 6th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Meh. I’ve already plumbed the depths of Billywitch porn. Don’t think there’s anywhere else to go…
The Voice of the Silent Majority Says:
December 8th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Not good enough theboysaunders.com. What about regular updates on Billywitch migration patterns? or on the alternative colouring of the various sub-species?
Phil Saunders Says:
December 22nd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Got another one! A gentleman by the name of ‘web дизайн’ would like to know:

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

Which is a valid and interesting question. Unfortunately, he left it on the Albums of the Decade post, instead of this one where I’d probably have allowed it.

So, a challenge to the spammers - leave amusing rhetorical question comments on this post and I’ll allow them intact, complete with the link to whatever crappy website you’re promoting
JC Says:
December 22nd, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Surely if you get scared half to death you are then only half alive therefore if you are scared half to death again it will only be half of your remaining life therefore only a quarter. In this way you can be scared half to death an unlimited number of times without ever actually dying.

On Having to Push the Pram a Lot

5 Responses to “On Having to Push the Pram a Lot”

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