[Updated 2 January 2021]
In addition to being predictably irrelevant like most spam, the stuff I’ve copied here from comments this blog has received (and the WordPress spam filter Akismet has flagged) is amusing for its random English, unintended humor, obscure wisdom or otherworldly logic. You too can use spam for divination!
Please don’t misunderstand — I’m not mocking non-native English speakers. I’ve taught ESL, and I’ve lived and worked overseas myself, and traveled to a number of countries, and struggled with communicating in several different languages: Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Malay. (Some days it’s all I can do to manage Local Yankee.) I get that challenge. What I’m pointing out is the “spamminess” of this stuff: its delightful nonsensicalness. Most of the English of non-native speakers and writers is in fact relatively comprehensible, especially in context. It aims at meaning something. The spam here rarely does that (though sometimes, by accident, it may happen).
So without further delay, I give you the “Spam Awards”.
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20 September 2020
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Absolutely! … I think. Never more than now. Except later, and earlier. The “subject of this subject” … hmm. I’ve actually almost missed spam-award-worthy spam. Most of it’s just been links to shady knock-off prescription drugs. And now this!
30 November 2019
“Thank you in your sweat”.
I guess of all the places I could be thanked, in the middle of physical effort at least makes a kind of sense …
8 January 2019
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One hundred monkeys probably couldn’t eventually type out the complete works of Shakespeare …
11 December 2018
“It is upwards of you in order to create the products”.
Whatever I create, it’s true that I’m “upwards-bound”, anyway, if not actually upwards. I need to focus my attention, and not on the body, for a moment or more. This has nothing to do with asceticism so much as with choice and selection of tools. For chopping wood and carrying water, a physical body is immensely useful — it beats out trying to magick an axe or bucket to do the same work! [For some of the challenges of employing magick to do such physical tasks, I refer you to Disney’s Fantasia, particularly The Sorceror’s Apprentice (https://video.disney.com/watch/sorcerer-s-apprentice-fantasia-4ea9ebc01a74ea59a5867853).] For creation, other bodies are often superior tools. Once the vision is in place, however, if the creation is to manifest physically, the physical body again plays a central and completing role.
13 March 2018
“… the end result is to savor someone”.
The end result of what?! If I widen “someone” to include all the edible someones on the planet, the end result of my existence is that I savor a substantial number of other beings by eating them. Is love then just a form of consumption?!
Or if the end result of my life is that I am savored, should I plan for green burial, without any preservatives, in order to encourage others’ savoring — of me?!
Could I expand this odd internet spam-message into an entire life-way? Should I?!
14 December 2017
An apparently new form of spam — the vaguely complimentary and always misspelled comment, with a female moniker attached that sounds like a match.com screen name. All of these arrived the last few days, from randomly-generated URLs like xkbylnpwze.com, and names like Brandie, Cheyenne, Azia. The misspellings are entertaining …
“You’ve maanged a first class post”.
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“You have more useful info than the British had colonies prWeW-II”.
But my favorite has to be this one:
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17 July 2017
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I know I find it difficult admitting when screwy, too …
24 May 2017
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Yes — ideas so transparent you can see right through them!
5 May 2017
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It’s like the Rig Veda says: All intelligences awake with morning.
27 March 2017
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Don’t we all, don’t we all!
28 November 2016
“its not frequently that I will want note your good blog.”
Always good to know that the left-handed compliment isn’t dead.
6 June 2016
(After a half-year drought in interesting spam, along came this.)
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“At the toe nail on the highest”: I give this away as a title, free to all folk of good intent. No by-product? Truly high-quality spam.
Why? “Don’t bother me — I’m taking a symbol.”
“Shall be straight to get more.” Hmm. Sometimes I’m curved, spiked, bent, or loopy on the way get more. Rarely straight. Muscular tension and all that. Relax! How many things out my window are straight?
I am blessed. Bless you, too.
30 October 2015
“Stop thinning your hair for good.”
Yes — now I will thin my hair for evil …
27 October 2015
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Sorry for pushing you toward such an abnormal state …
13 April 2015
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“Completing a quartet”: a new skill for LinkedIn? And “winning a flavour for” sounds like a Ben and Jerry’s advertising scheme.
6 April 2015
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Always happy to hear that I inspire people to pronounce my articles. Though actually reading and thinking about them would be better. Apparently I’m an adept at … cool down? Some unnamed study? Uncloudedness? Going “steawdy”? At least I provide “pleeasurable” play. And you can “mulct with my permit” if you must …
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21 October 2014
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Exactly!
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I do try to regulate my “volume of perform” and you should, too. But the number of hoops you choose to fashion or leap through is entirely up to you.
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07 October 2014
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This blog is all about “strange puts,” after all, and it’s up to you to decipher them. But “out and about”? That’s yours free just for visiting.
“Are you a parent? If you find you’re too frightened, just look in the mirror and scream at the top of your lungs to work up your nerve.”
Will this strategy help launch me into fathering the children I’ve been avoiding out of fear? Tune in next week to find out … Or is this meant as a strategy to approach parenting after the fact and with greater confidence? “What was that scream, Mom?” “Oh, don’t worry, honey. Your father’s just building up the nerve to tell you to do your homework.”
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06 October 2014
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Nothing like a commenter trusting to chance …
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11 February 2014
“What would you recommend about your submit that you simply made a few days ago? Any certain?”
I recommend that people read my posts, since they landed here, and decide for themselves if what I write and think has any value to them. But beyond such opinions is something much more important — a reminder that what you value comes from within you. It’s something you can nourish and build on, or ignore. That’s the only “certain” I provide here.
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22 December 2013
“It’s really entry stage with respect to black color material without reserving unyielding love to match another mission. Phantom’s cries are generally very common associated with type, with a bit of point given to their cruelty.”
We’re reaching into Zen koan territory here. I’ll concede “entry stage” — we’re all beginners. And we do need love to match our missions in life. Phantom? Lot’s of ’em. Plenty of my phantoms or illusions can be cruel — especially given how I can delude myself. And I give them a “point, “too — both their sharpness and the ultimate meaning. Yes, this is what happens when you use spam like a fortune cookie …
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14 November 2013
“If attainable, as you gain experience, would you brain updating your site with a lot more info?”
I “brain update” as often as I can, since my software/wetware is still pretty buggy after all these years. Whether the update does what the documentation claims — or whether it’s “attainable” — remains to be seen. I’m a work in progress, like all of us. In case of complaint, contact the Programmer via your pineal gland.
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29 May 2013
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“Far delivered agreeable” to everyone, I hope. And until I understand more, I think we’re already in touch enough …
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18 March 2013
“They also say it could mean something rather than the goddess herself. So it is anybody’s guess.”
Hmm. From what I’ve seen and experienced, this universe often means lots of things at the same time — both “something” AND “the Goddess” are well within possibility of the universe I know. Most things have multiple meanings, because there is more than one person in the world doing some meaning-making. (Hey baby, let’s get together and make some meaning.) Further, very few things are anybody’s guess. Most of us reserve our guesses for a handful of things that matter to us. And a few things are probably nobody’s guess. See where spam can take you?
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7 October 2012
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Guess I could get more readers if I didn’t make them “think down.” And just how many ways can you follow me?! Sounds stalker-creepy. But at least I have a good “sit” going … maybe the most relaxed yoga pose I practice …
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28 May 2012
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When I finish a post, I definitely “plus afterward a lot of.” What else is there to do?! And yup: “no fee,” either! At least as long as WordPress keeps hunger for profit at bay.
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18 May 2012
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That’s what I do: provide ample amounts of buck to identify. In fact, more buck per word than any other blog! But re the “nice points,” did I make them or not?!
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6 April 2012
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Yes, I’ll do my best to “maintain it up” and hope to “realize considerably” in the future, too. Though the “Woman gaga” part still has me scratching my head …
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