I haven’t been around much here, mostly because I’ve been working on another site (sarashay.com) but I just changed themes for the first time since I was first figuring out how to do this WordPress thing, and it reminded me that I haven’t done one of theses in a while.

“One of these” being digging through the spam trap for interesting botposts, posting them, and commenting on them.

I got these two, one after another, and the attached email address suggests this is actually a live human being, but I’m not 100% sure.

I would rather be in your shoes ,than you in mine, I would like to ask are you still in business, and if you are I would like to tell you a story.

I am a archaeologist of native American weapons and hunting implements, in Texas, I will tell you this what I say is the truth but nothing but the truth so help me, I’ve also been abducted, and have the evidence to prove it, I visit a mission in San Antonio Texas called mission concepcion, I’ve had many Aborigines, appear to me, I hope and pray that you’re in good health, I’m a Pentecostal,

I honestly don’t know what to make of that.

Returning to your website is like embarking on a new adventure each time. The design is so captivating and the content is so immersive. Keep up the amazing work!Facebook

The word “Facebook” was actually a link to Facebook itself. I wonder if Meta is seeding links to make sure the Facebook site is the first thing in search results. Ironically, this one attempted to post in the entry Even More Fun With Spam!

Hello, after reading this amazing paragraph i am as well happy to sharre my
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Okay?

Most of the spam has gotten pretty boring with a lot of go8shr and 3iozj9 and stuff, but the good stuff still shows up sometime.

I returned from my long absence to this blog to find a slew of comments caught in the moderation queue. Unfortunately, every single one of them belonged there.

Yes! Finally someone writes about Лучшее порево.

Russian! The official language of spam!

Evenyore would benefit from reading this post

Well, by all means, tell Evenyore and direct them to this post.

Pokemon remakes for songs are awmoese, too. :DI’m not gonna’ Raichu a love song, cause you Ash for it, cause you Nidoran. CHANSEY!I don’t know if you’re in a straight jacket the situation demands a new name.

I’m going to guess that you had a lot of tabs open to a lot of different blogs and got your comment fields mixed up.

Shadow, Kallista.Haha. *laughs like a lunatic*Lemme see. I’ve given grnmeils food. And guns.Not to mention made zombies giants, and given them weapons. Andgiven vamps weapons.Lets also mention a teaparty withaliens.

There’s a certain irony in the fact that this one was directed to the post More Fun With Spam!

Every time i miss you, a star falls.So if you ever look up at the sky and the stars are gone,its because you made me miss you too much!Be my Valentine!

Why, thank you wiij2aavdny@outlook.com. By the way, it helps reading comprehension if you put at least one space between sentences.

Harry potter seires? Once.SP? Three times after I finished mortal coil, and when DB can out I read all my fav parts of it a million times. They’re all my fav parts.I used to know all the spells in HP, then I forgot some of them.

I’m very impressed that you were able to learn spells from the Harry Potter books. Perhaps you should demonstrate for James Randi.

My guy sucked on my neck and chest but it didn’t leave a mark. It still feels relaly good. So if you want one but doont want amark just tell him to suck but not hard.

I once dated a guy who gave himself a hickey on his leg so he could claim he got in an accident on his motorcycle in order to take a day off from work. (Seriously, I did.)

I’d like to try and do these more frequently. This is not a heavily trafficked blog, but I’m certainly not lacking for spam to make fun of.

I have to say, How to Kill Demons did get quite the response in the comments section.  Too bad only one of them was from somebody who actually read the thing.  The rest got clogged in the spam trap and have that peculiar quality that comes with comments that are cleverly designed to sneak in and plant links to boost somebody’s Google rankings.

I’ve recently started a blog, the information you provide on this site has helped me tremendously. Thank you for all of your time & work.

Why, you’re welcome!  I’m really not sure what information I provided here that helped you with your oddly minimal blog about how to become an ultrasound technician, but I hope it works out well for you.

I respect what you may did right here. I like the part wherever you express you are doing this to give back then again I’d personally guess just by all the responses that this is earning a living for you too.

It always weirds me out a bit when spam comments talk about “all the responses” or the “lively discussion” when I haven’t made a single one of them visible.  Can they secretly see each other as their comments huddle together in the spam trap?  As for ‘earning a living’, dude, I wish.

A superb view on this you’ve gotten, even as I don’t accept every thing which was explained I can see your case.

I’m glad you can see it.  I didn’t even realize I was making a case for anything.

All kinds of things is absolutely free, wonderful woman. Gratitude so much for text this material for us to learn.

This one I might have almost considered letting through, had it been signed with a normal human name instead of ‘binaural tones.’

The amazing little blueberry has emerged as nature’s number one source of antioxidants among fresh fruits and vegetables.

Good to know, but how is that remotely relevant to anything I’ve written here?  I’m trying to even figure out any blog where this would fit in easily without it bringing to mind some vaguely Stepford-like individual blurting this line out at a cocktail party with a blank smile.

I have two major Word Art projects in the works that I’ll be posting soon.  I’ve also added a few scans up for people to download–check the “Free Stuff” tab at the top of the blog for details.  And if you are a live human being with something to say, please, feel free to comment.  I get lonely typing here by myself, ya know, but not so lonely that I’ll take up with spambots for company.

One of the rather disheartening things about starting out a blog is the realization that nobody but me is reading any of this.  Some spammers, I suspect, rely on this loneliness to infiltrate the comments of various blogs so they can seed their links for their nefarious purposes.  They use remarks that are generic enough to fit in just about anywhere and flattering enough to encourage the moderator to let them through.

At this point I don’t get enough real comments to worry about the burden of moderation but I did install a spam filter to help screen out the fake ones.  And what’s particularly amusing to me is how categorically and utterly clueless these spammers look when you compare what they wrote to the entry they tried to write it in.

This post is beyond awesome. I am always wondering what to do and what not to do so I will follow some of these tips.

If you’re going to follow the ‘tips’ in Icarus Speaks of His Fall From the Heavens, I really do wonder what kind of guidance you’ve been following up to this point.

Cool, there are actually some worthwhile facts on this blog some of my readers may find this worthwhile, I must send a link, thanks.

Keep in mind that the facts in the Astronomy Series are culled mostly from Wikipedia and modified by me, so I can’t really be–wait, which entry are you commenting on?  That Which Is Called the Heart?  I’m not sure what ‘facts’ your readers will find worthwhile from that one.

I’m looking forward to getting more information about this topic, don’t worry about negative opinions.

I appreciate that you’re looking forward to getting more information about Star Light Star Bright but I can’t say I’ll be writing much beyond what I wrote there about it.  And there haven’t been any negative opinions that anybody’s bothered to post, just a nice fellow who, well, let’s just hear him say it:

Helo
Awesome post – i’m creating video about it after i will post it to youtube !
if you wana to help or just need a link send me email !

Isn’t that sweet of him?  I should really get around to emailing irwlxxjg928@gmail.com and asking him about that.

I Absolutely recognise what your stance in this matter is. Even though I should disagree on some of the finer details, I think you did an incredible job outlining it. Sure beats needing to research it by myself. Appreciate it.

Thank you for recognizing my stance on, um, Venus.  So sorry we couldn’t agree on the ‘finer details’ of it.  Oh, and see above about research–I wouldn’t recommend citing my artwork as a source.

I’m going to go clean out the spam trap for this week but as fresh comments accumulate I might make this a periodic entry for my own entertainment.  (Pity I can’t read Russian–I get so many comments in it.)