{"id":13700,"date":"2013-04-25T02:44:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T01:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=13700"},"modified":"2013-04-25T02:45:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T01:45:20","slug":"behold-the-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/04\/25\/behold-the-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Behold the spam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thanks to the very efficient WordPress spam filter<\/a> readers here seldom see any spam comments but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any hitting the site. This blog receives an average of around 1,200 a day, sometimes more on those occasions when some algorithm out in the Deep Web turns its Sauron-gaze this way. The programs that post these things occasionally misfire (or are simply badly written) so you find things in the spam list that weren’t meant to be seen in the wild. Dangerous Minds<\/a> spotted an example earlier this week, and I found another today, mine being a list of garbled “inspirational” quotes that must have been translated to a foreign language then translated back to English. Spam comments are a pain but since they’re auto-generated they’re often funny or simply strange for the ways they mangle the language. A few choice examples follow. There was a lot more of this!<\/p>\n

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\n\u2014Charlie Face<\/p>\n

Commonsense isn\u2019t really all of that popular.
\n\u2014Voltaire<\/p>\n

Resist much. Follow tiny.
\n\u2014Walt Whitman<\/p>\n

Should you communicate comprehend, get just one feet inside stirrup.
\n\u2014Turkish proverb<\/p>\n

When great modifications take place ever, as soon as good guidelines are involved, usually the majority is inappropriate.
\n\u2014Eugene Sixth v. Debs<\/p>\n

That which can be wrecked from the real truth ought to be.
\n\u2014P. Chemical. Hodgell<\/p>\n

When Christ ended up the following, there is something however definitely not always be: any Roscoe.
\n\u2014Mark Twain<\/p>\n

In no way characteristic for you to malice that which can be properly discussed by simply silliness.
\n\u2014Hanlon\u2019s electric shaver<\/p>\n

Wizard might have it is restrictions, although stupidity isn\u2019t therefore equipment.
\n\u2014Elbert Hubbard<\/p>\n

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