Spam Roundup October, 2020

There's spam, and then there's spam so oddly written it's somewhat amusing. Here's a roundup of some of the "best" comments I received this month from spambots around the world.

I'm sorry, what?

 - Nice on both you and your somebody has a intimately-outlined pouring body part. [My body parts don't pour, though they are poor.]

 - Businesses are always take to ask during the discourse and the info and processes participating.

 - Forbid the near ability to see the results of your cheeks. regain the gross iciness. [I hate that feeling of gross iciness.] 

 -  If not, you should ever familiarize yourself with your whispered earned medium of exchange to expend national leader wealth. [My whispered earned medium of exchange is certainly nothing to shout about.]

Lumbering Along still pulls in the bots

My modest post about a cheap Japanese toy remains popular. The Straco Express Layout, Part 23 - Lumbering Along is in no way related to the comments it generates.

 - Thank you a lot for sharing this with all folks you really understand what you're speaking about! 

 - I get pleasure from, result in I discovered just what I was taking a look for. [Glad I could pleasure you.]

 - This piece of writing is actually nice and I have learned lot of things from it. [You sound surprised.] 

 - Howdy, i read your blog from time to time and i own a similar one and i was just wondering if you get a lot of spam feedback? [You mean like this?]

Then there's this

 - Get a decrease on machine protection reward by fosterage your nipper,

Words fail me. More next month!

Spam Roundup, June, 2020

There's spam, and then there's spam so oddly written it's somewhat amusing. Here's a roundup of some of the "best" comments I received this month from spambots around the world.

Words to live by

Sometimes the spammers' translation programs produce text that's strangely inspiring -- if only you could make sense of it.

- Truth essential to fix any conflicts in your living thing.

- This is rattling critical cerebrate to experience too rush when transaction with liability and try to roll in the hay. [So a roll in the hay is a liability?]

 - However, if one is succeeder, it suffers from this artifact has precondition you the ataraxis of judgment that investigate engines with your perplexing visitors. 

"Lumbering along" continues to log comments

This modest post about a vintage Japanese toy keeps bringing in the spambots. The Straco Express Layout, Part 23 - Lumbering Along is very short and direct -- and yet none of these commenters seem to know what it's about.

- I'm not sure where you are getting your info, but great topic. [Thanks. I made it all up.]

- I was seeking this certain information for a very long time. [I'm certain you were. not.]

 - Reading this post reminds me of my good old roommate! He always kept chatting about this. [Ah, those crazy college days, filled with discussions about postwar Japanese tinplate toys made for the American market.]

Faintly praise, indeed!

At least, I think praise was the purpose here.

- You know thus significantly with regards to this subject.

 - It's a remarkable paragraph designed for all the web visitors. [Yep, if you're on the web, I'm writing for you!]

In conclusion

 - Hey I'm for the primary time here. [Aren't we all, my friend, aren't we all. See you next month!

Spam Roundup September, 2013

There's spam, and then there's spam so oddly written it's somewhat amusing.  Here's a roundup of some of the "best" comments I received this month from spambots around the world.

Could you be more specific?
- I am regular visitor, how are you everybody? This paragraph posted at this web page is in
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Which paragraph would that be? The post had five.

Just need a little understanding
- I used to be suggested this blog by means of my cousin. I'm not certain whether or not this put up is written by way of him as nobody else understand such exact about my problem.
I don't think I understand such exactly what you're saying.


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- Excellent beat ! I wish to apprentice while you amend your website, how could
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Not clear about what you mean in the "bright clear" part.

A sense of completeness
- These articles have got complete sense without confusing the readers.
Although your syntax confused this reader.

Apparently this is taboo in certain parts
of the world.

To the next -- and beyond!
(posted to The Straco Layout, Part 23 - Lumbering along)
- An interesting discussion is definitely worth comment. There's no doubt that that you ought to publish more about this subject, it might not be a taboo matter but usually people don't speak about these issues. To the next! Kind regards!!

Variations on a fastidious theme (see: Fastidious Spam)
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Spam Roundup August, 2013

Increased page views means increased comments from spambots! Here's a roundup of some of the "best" comments I received this month.

In response to my review of Michael Torke's classical music composition "Tahiti:"

Yes! Fin?lly something ab?ut cheap hoyels.
[Sorry, no. Nothing about hoyels, cheap or otherwise.]

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[I was with you until you mentioned AOL. I only correspond with the cool kids on Google. May be that is not me.]


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[Yo, what's taking place with you? Glad to aid you out there, chief.]

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[How could we communicate? I'm sure I don't know. I'm not even sure what you said in the first place.]


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[This posted to the spammer's favorite article -- The Straco Layout, Part 23 - Lumbering Along which has no video. Literally.]

It's really a nice and helpful piece of information. I'm glad that you shared this useful information with us. Please keep us informed like this. Thank you for sharing.
[So it's the information you liked, then?]

If you desire to obtain much from this article then you have to apply such methods to your won
website.
[I feel there's a bit of Zen wisdom hidden in there somewhere.]

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[And there it is -- fastidious -- a preferred word among my spammy followers. Glad to know I can pull off fastidious and funny. I music be improving...]

I used to be able to find good information from your blog articles.
[...or maybe not]

Next month we'll have more informed information about our spammers -- a veritable fountain of fastidiously funny data, I'm sure. So keep those comments coming in.
Preferably to my AOL account.

Spam Roundup: May 2013

Spam's a fact of Internet life. But they sometimes can provide some unintentional humor. Here's a selection of some of the best(?) spam I've received this past month.

Increased traffic has meant increased spam to this blog. And a few comments have provided some unintentional humor. Here's a sampling of some of the best of the worst -- with my own thought thrown in as well. My comments are bracketed.

Everybody's Favorite Word
 - Wow, this paragraph is fastidious, my younger sister is analyzing these kinds of things, thus I am going to tell her.

What is it with spammers and hemorrhoids?
 - When someone writes an paragraph he/she maintains the thought of a user in his/her brain that how a user can know it. So that's why this paragraph is outstdanding. Thanks! [You/you're welcome/thanks.] Here is my web page :: HemorrhoidMiracleDiscount

How's that again?
 - Genuinely when someone doesn't understand after that its up to other users that they will assist, so here it happens.

Yeah? Look who's talking
 - obviously like your web-site but you have to test the spelling on quite a few of your posts. A number of them are rife with spelling problems and I in finding it very troublesome to inform the truth nevertheless I will surely come back again. [Tell you what. I'll work on spelling if you'll work on grammar.]

Point, Counterpoint 

The heart of the controversy. Spammers either loved or hated my post
about this homemade childhood toy.

[Both of these were posted to the same article, Clackety-Clack Train.]
- I think that everything published was actually very logical. However, think on this, suppose you added a little information? I mean, I don't wish to tell you how to run your website, however what if you added a post title that grabbed people's attention? I mean "Clackety-Clack Train" is kinda vanilla. [Really!?] You might look at Yahoo's front page and note how they create post headlines to get people interested. You might add a video or a picture or two to grab people excited about what you've got to say. In my opinion, it might bring your website a little livelier. [And we all want to bring on the livelier.]

 - Hurrah! Finally I got a webpage from where I know how to in fact take useful data regarding my study and knowledge. [Now here's a reader who gets the livlier I brought!]

Typical 
 - Because the admin of this site is working, no hesitation very shortly it will be famous, due to its feature contents. [I do all the writing, admin gets all the credit. -- as usual.]

Night and Day 
[Two comments about CCC 018 - Max Richter, a composer profile.]
  - The next time I read a blog, I hope that it doesn't disappoint me as much as this particular one. After all, I know it was my choice to read through, nonetheless I genuinely believed you'd have something interesting to talk about. All I hear is a bunch of crying about something you could fix if you were not too busy seeking attention. [Oh yes, I would fix Max Richter's music in a heartbeat if I wasn't so needful.]

Howdy! This blog post couldn’t be written any better! Going through this article reminds me of my previous roommate! He constantly kept talking about this. I will send this information to him. Pretty sure he’s going to have a very good read. Thanks for sharing! [I guess he liked it better on second read.]

"Alley" is not a euphemism
[In response to my comic strip commentary "Gasoline Alley and the Old Comic Strip Challenge"]
- Yes! Finally something about anal. [It's not. I promise.]

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Smartly-liked from various angles
 - What i don't understood is in fact how you are now not actually a lot more smartly-liked than you might be right now. You are so intelligent. You know therefore considerably when it comes to this topic, made me personally imagine it from so many various angles. Its like women and men are not interested unless it is one thing to accomplish with Woman gaga! Your own stuffs outstanding. All the time handle it up!

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The monthly spam roundup

Spam Roundup: April 2013

Increased traffic has meant increased spam to this blog. And a few comments have provided some unintentional humor. Here's a sampling of some of the best of the worst -- with my own thought thrown in as well.

For some reason, my post on Fastidious Spam (which was about goofy spam) attracted a fair amount of its own. Goofy spam, that is. My comments are bracketed.

 - This is a topic that is close to my heart. .. [I'm sure it is -- spambot] best wishes! Where are your contact details though [to the right, in plain sight]


  - Way cool! Some very valid points! [Points you've just helped prove, BTW]  I appreciate you penning this post and also the rest of the website is extremely good. [Why thanks. High praise indeed for a spambot.]
 

  - Hey very nice blog! how to cure hemorrhoids at home on Fastidious Spam [OK, that's not an image I want in my brain.]
 
  - Thanks for finally writing about > "Fastidious Spam" < Liked it! [Oh yes, we're into hard-hitting editorials here at Off  Topic'd.]  Also visit my web page - treatment for hemorrhoids [What is it with hemorrhoids? Is it just professional admiration from one pain the ass to another?]  

 - What's up to all, it's actually a fastidious for me to pay a visit this site, it consists of priceless Information. [Your use of "fastidious" is priceless to me.]

This is the toy that inspired spambots to write about
lollipop cigarettes, online money, South Africa, and poetry.

Another popular post proved to be The Straco Layout, Part 23 - Lumbering along, which is just about a small Japanese tin toy car. Really. So I'm not sure why it attracted the following comments:

  - I used to be able to find good info from you? content. My weblog - South African Government Travel Advisory [So sorry to disappoint. But I didn't have much to say about South Africa in my post about an early 1960's lithographed Japanese toy car.]

 - Yes! Finally someone writes about money online. [Really? Well they didn't do it here!]

  - Lollipop shaped v2 cigarettes incredibly preferred amongst ladies. [Cryptic advice from the spammers. You heard it hear first, ladies.] 

  - Hi there colleagues, how is all, and what you wish for to say on the topic of this article, in my view its truly awesome for me. [Yes, how is all, y'all?]

  - What a material of un-ambiguity and preserveness of precious familiarity regarding unpredicted feelings. [Sheer poetry.]

And in conclusion, we have a comment that refers back to a previous post and ties everything together nicely.

What's up, this weekend is fastidious for me, since this point in time i am reading this wonderful educational article here at my residence. 

Wishing one and all every fastidiousness at their residence.

Fastidious Spam 2 - What's my part?

What is it about this penny toy that spammers find
so attractive?

If I commented on all the goofy, awkwardly translated spam that this blog attracts, that would pretty much by the subject of every post. While most of it is pretty crude, occasionally I receive something that is amusingly off the mark (see Fastidious Spam).

For some reason, part of my long-running series of posts about my Japanese tin toy display has attracted an extraordinary amount of spam. The Straco Layout, Part 23 - Lumbering Along is a modest essay about how Nomura used a simple design to create various different tin toy vehicles.

Something in the post apparently has something spammers are looking for, and it consistently remains one of the most highly trafficked Off Topic'd posts. Like this one:

Highlу energetic artiсlе, I liked that bit. 
Will thеre be a part 2? Feel free to ѕurf to my web site :: Hotels Near Mactan Airport Cebu Philippines 

I found this amusing for two reasons (three if you count the mis-match between the subject of vintage Japanese toys and hotels in the Philippines). 

The first is the characterization of the article (that the spambot hadn't read). Here's a quote from that "highly energetic article."

I recently purchased a small lumber truck to add to the display. As with the other vehicles, it was made in Japan in the 1950s’-1960’s. And like the other vehicles, it has some features that I found of interest.

The first was the quality of construction. Although the metal chassis isn’t painted, it still completely encloses the body. It has a friction drive and rubber wheels, so this is a higher-end “penny toy.”

The second is the request. "Will there be a part 2?" Dude, it says Part 23 in the title! We're way beyond Part 2. But I'm thinking the spambot didn't read that either.