It amazes me at times the kind of comments and opinions I have received on my blog since I started it back in October 2012. Now, I love my readers and appreciate every comment – good, bad, positive, negative, funny, etc. I make it a point to reply to each one when I have the time and always set aside some to do so. Along the way though I have received some “interesting” comments that get captured in the handy dandy spam filter – thank goodness for that tool! Usually I will leave them in there for a week before looking through and deleting them one by one. It does make me laugh at how blatently obvious the spam that they are. You can always tell because they never comment on the actual post it’s attached to, but usually consists of some sort of sales pitch, foreign language, or some crazy gobbledygook that makes little to no sense at all. I do find it humorous too at the messages some send to the posts they are commenting about. Just cleaning out the spam filter today I discovered these gems with the post they commented on –
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– Are you calling me fat? If I didn’t have a Big Mac and fries in my hands right now I’d knock your ass out!
( Eff you Cupid! Valentine’s Day Loathing )
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– Are you telling me I dress bad when hitting the bar scene? You stalking me?
( Happy St Patty’s Vomit Day NYC! )
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– So, now you want me to buy new sneakers to vomit on during St Patty’s Day drinking?
( Dude, trim those nose hairs! )
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( Time to play “Hide the Weiner” for NYC Mayor! )
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( Subway Cell Phone Torture. Thanks NYC. What’s Next? )
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– You found me on Bing? Along with the nude pics too? You’re welcome!
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– Your fat ass has been hunting for candy for four days? Ever hear of something called a store? Run along to Piggly Wiggly now tubby.
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– Um, what? Is this the next cast of The Expendables 3? Fast & Furious 7? French porno filmed in a speakasy? I’m in!
( Mr Sandman must hate New Yorkers )
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( Pajama Bottoms in public? Why NYC? Why? )
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– Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy…….
( In NYC Big Brother is watching you -and helping you pee! )
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– Yes, I do deserve applause when I pee. Maybe a standing ovation when I poop too!
You certainly get more interesting spam comments than I do!
Hey Emily!
And the hits keep on coming! Some strange spammers out there! Happy Friday!
Yes! Commenting from my cell phone!
This mad me laugh so much! Thanks Philly
Hey Mo!
Awww, thanks! Glad I gave you a good laugh! Hope you brought a change of underewear with you today! 🙂
Hahaha I was actually talking to some friends of mine the other day about the fact that the majority of the compliments I’ve received on my blog have been from complimentary spam. I’ve never been told I need to hit the gym to fit in a wedding dress though :S
Hey JP!
I have received some strange ones – which I had kept them all. Thanks for commenting!
Maybe one day I will fit in that dress…….
This is one of my pet peeves! Say one nasty thing about gas prices, and everyone in Saudi Arabia spams the $#!+ out of you! Spammers are always my first choice for AOTW!
Hello UP!
They certainly get around don’t they? Most I can’t even understand anyway!
These are down right funny!! I love your responses underneath. They are so annoying! I get more spam when i post stuff to sell on Craigslist. Where do these come from? crazy i tell ya!
Hey Holli!
Glad you like my craziness! I think they wait behind bushes to jump out at us when a new blog post is put up!
Although in general I find Spam a huge pain in the butt, I do find many of them funny too. Every Friday evening on my FB page I post the funniest spam comment of the week. It always gets people laughing.
Hey Karen!
Some of them make no sense that you just have to laugh at them! Since I posted this I already have six new ones!
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Hey Peggy!
In a crappy way that kind of makes sense. I smell a fortune about to be made. Don’t poo poo good advice like this.
I’ll be here all week! Try the veal!
Lols – this was awesome – i especially liked the “ack ack ack” part :))
I am yet to get spam, but after reading your spam comments i can’t wait to laugh at mine lol
Have a great day!
Hey Julie!
Thanks for dropping by and commenting! So glad I gave you some laughs today!
I am sure you will get some spam soon – all us bloggers do! BTW – following you on Twitter and Bloglovin now. Your site is terrific looking.
Ack Ack Ack! (saw Mars Attacks on HBO a few nights ago) 🙂
Thanks for checking out my blog! I follow you through bloglovin and even made my bf instal bloglovin on his phone just so he could read your blog every now and then. He is not a ‘blogger’ person, so your blog is the only one he follows lol. We both used to live in bk, so your ‘NY-talk” is very familiar to us lol
Keep up the good work! 🙂
Hey Julie!
Thanks so much for the great compliments! I really appreciate it!
That’s funny that you got your BF to follow my blog. Now the pressure is on!
Your spam comments are so much better than mine! The ones that make me hesitate are the overly flowerly, ones–with the adverbs and adjectives running amok–because I stop and wonder if it’s someone trying to be genuinely nice, but they are not familiar with English. Then again… it can be very amusing 🙂
In other news… what the hell is a “world beater”?
Hey Jean!
The broken English ones are the funniest! It’s like – WTF are they saying?
World Beater? Got me, but they did sound all excited about it! 🙂
LMFAO Yah. I’ve seen some really interesting SPAM come through my folder as well. Like, do they really think that’s soliciting something legitimately? It baffles me.
xoxo,
Jules of Canines & Couture
http://www.caninesandcouture.com
Hey Jules!
I am sure some of it is pre-loaded bots just sending out spam to promote a product but some of it just too funny!
Might as well laugh at it! 🙂
I get so much spam! I love your post though, it’s always good to be able to laugh things off 🙂
Hey Foodie!
You have to laugh at some of these idiots! Some of it just makes no sense!
I get loads of spam as well. I could understand it if they made sense but most of it is pure gobbledygook – they make no sense at all. There is no specific message and no particular sales pitch. What a waste of their time – not to mention ours.
Hey Lanthie!
Ye, but that is what makes some of them so funny! Most of it is a waste though, I’ll admit. At least the delete button always works!
So what you’re saying is I shouldn’t immediately delete my spams once I’ve deduced that they’re actually spams because I could be seriously entertained by their inadvertent messages? 😉
Hey Kitt!
Yup! Who knows what’s in those secret messages of wit and wisdom? One of them can change your life!
Phil,
Another great post. Verra, verra funny, thanks for the laugh!
Spamela Foley
Hey Pam!
Aw, thanks so much! So glad you like it and offered a laugh. I think we all get spammed now and then. Some of it is too funny!
You had me cracking up. Those spam really suck and are a pain to read over and over again. I was getting some of the same kind of messages everyday. There were too many of them and I had no time to read them when they made zero sense. So I just adjusted the settings so that they couldn’t send me anymore. I got sick and tired of reading them, I had better things to do. It was more like 100 senseless spam messages a day I had to go through, but not anymore. I said bye bye to them.
Hi Susana!
Not everyone likes spam that’s for sure! I just get a kick out of reading some of the idiotic one. The rest I delete. I am saving some for a follow up post about it.
Thanks for reading!
You’ve analysed them well Phil. I recognise quite a few of those and they are the scourge of the committed blogger. I’ve particularly been hit with people trying to promote Nike, NFL shirts and ladies handbags.
I’m quite frustrated with Word Press or the plugins updates. All my comments used to require moderator approval. Over the last month or so the odd few comments go live straight away and skip my approval. This is very annoying since I’m not on the blog 24 hours a day and some spam sneaks through. Also some genuine comments are filtered into spam and need releasing.
What is also a concern is the number of hack attempts. I have pretty good security measures on my site (so I’m not overly concerned) but some people are very determined. I’ve seen hack attempts from California, Russia, the Balkan countries and a range of places around Asia. At times there can be 100+ attempts in an hour! Give it up guys my e-mail in box is filling up with failed log in attempt logs.
Hey Guy!
I am sure we have all received many similar messages. Mostly they are from some sort of computer bot, and others are indivials trying to get us to buy some cheap knockoffs. It’s pretty annoying and funny at times. Not too many get past my spam filter, and WordPress has done a good job. I also use Jetpack as a plugin which has worked well. Gonna keep my fingers crossed!
Thanks for reading and commenting!
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Hey Jill!
The weird spam messages I receive just brighten my day!