I’m sure that those of you who regularly visit this site remember last year when I changed the commenting procedure to require users to be registered and signed in. I did this to avoid the hassle of moderating 70 or so spam comments on this site every day. It worked very well for seven or eight months until the spammers found a new way to put their ridiculous, nonsensical advertisements in my comment queue once again. Bastards.
Although these spammers seem to have gotten a bit smarter when it comes to getting through my blocking systems, they are still just as dim-witted as before in the way they deliver their advertisements. “Hello Jane, nice site,” and “I really have nothing to say right now,” will forever live on in the back of my head as some of the most ridiculous spam comments of all time, but a new breed has emerged on earlyorke.com (and certainly on other sites as well)… here are a few of the comments that I’ve been laughing at before hitting the delete button:
“Casino chip insurance…”
Brilliant idea… where’s the asterisk on that one?
“Car inshurence quotes…”
The hilarious thing about this one (aside from the obvious plea for some Hooked on Phonics) is that it was actually placed in my comment queue by a recognized, nationwide insurance company. I won’t mention who it is so as not to tarnish their image (PROGRESSIVE).
There were more, but I don’t want to place too much of their quoted text here because it really defeats the purpose of deleting the comments in the first place. For any of you who would like to hear of the numerous other idiotic spam messages I get on this site just drop me an email and I’ll be more than happy to share.
Look for a new post in the next few days about the Graphic Novel that I’m working on with Jeff Fitzgerald. It’s going to be so good!
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January 25th, 2007 
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