Like any blog, mine gets a steady stream of spam comments, easily identifiable by their bland generic praise and utter disconnect from the original post – this morning’s classics including: “Helpful information! I have been searching for something like this for quite a while currently. Thanks!” and “Your blog is really very informative. Thank you for that.”
I did, however, also receive a zinger this morning – a lengthy screed…upwards of 1000 words of prime gibberish.
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… and every so often, just as your mouse, having already discovered the red Trash word and being poised to click, you find a genuine comment. Someone, like me, who is genuinely and currently not using the wrong tense to compliment a site as amusing and thoroughly useless as yours … one of those comments you’re not quite sure whether to delete, perhaps … where’s the bloody Anadin Extra?
“amusing and thoroughly useless”…hmmm…as epitaphs go, not quite up there with ‘Here lies one whose name was writ in water’, but it’ll do. I’ll keep that tucked away.