Hmmm. fhwjf has posted a somewhat unrelated link to an article on Fox News on a post about Stephen Spielberg. This is actually the second time someone has done that in the last week or so. The first time it was a Fox News article about Barry Bonds juicing. For a while, I had people comment spamming with links to Google too (those all got auto-junked for having too many URLs in the comment).
Fair warning. The next time someone does this, the comment gets deleted. I'm not a free advertising service for any commercial enterprise.
Besides, quite frankly, if you can't find a blog with a reasonable level of traffic to spam with those kinds of links, you're not even all that good at what you do.
Thanks for the kind offer, but I really don't want to create my own "Dream Stripper".
Today's cleaning out of the spam filter brought me a couple of message subjects I just had to respond to (here, not by e-mail; I'm not criminally stupid).
Mature Woman Wants To Meet Mature Man
You've come to the wrong place.
What Do You Taste Like?
Chicken.
I got a very exciting e-mail this evening. Apparently my e-mail address was attached to a winning lottery ticket. I've won $1,000,000! All I need to do to claim my winnings is contact Goldland Lottery's fiducially agent.
Fiducially agent? I work in finance. I've never heard of a fiducially agent. Do you suppose they meant fiduciary agent?
I would think con artists might consider learning to spell. Although I suppose they make enough money off suckers even with poor spelling.
To the very idiotic kind spammer who sent me the e-mail regarding the $900 insomnia:
I do not need $900 insomnia. I have free insomnia. Thanks, though, for the offer.
Dear Ms. Purcell,
I wish to thank you kindly for your e-mail to me entitled "lesley@houseofplum.com: you skills expired". Actually, I didn't read the body of the e-mail, but it is rare that someone can so succinctly draw to my attention a significant problem. Until receiving your e-mail, I was, first, unaware that skills ever expired. I was, second, unaware that one used the object form of the pronoun rather than the possessive when discussing someone's skills.
It has become clear to me that I must now go and revisit the very foundation upon which my life, to date, has been built. Perhaps someone can assist me in determining the governing body for skills, so I can file the proper skills paperwork and renew me skills. I will also have to relearn pronoun usage in order to stay current in this brave, new world.
Alas, so much work, so little time. Nonetheless, I appreciate you bringing this matter to me attention.
I remain sincerely you,
lesley@houseofplum.com
