From the spam comments hall of fame

Filed at 9:46 pm, Tuesday December 22nd 2009
by Arlen Parsa

I typically get one or two spam comments per day, which I promptly delete and auto-report to Akismet, the online spam database which grows smarter at identifying spam with each comment it catches. Every now and then a comment is truly hilarious however, as with this one, left on my 2007 post, “ABC News picks up Swift Boat/SRCP story!” Here’s the comment for your amusement. They’re obviously trying very hard to sound like a real live blog commenter:

Filed under: Bob Ney

6 Responses to “From the spam comments hall of fame”

  1. Randy, on December 23rd, 2009 at 7:59 am Said:

    I don’t understand your skepticism. I think he genuinely adored your work.

    Although, at first I misread the phrase “grab your rss” and thought maybe he was stalker.

    Merry Christmas,
    Randy

  2. Arlen Parsa, on December 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am Said:

    Hah, thanks Randy. You too!

  3. alec, on January 4th, 2010 at 10:43 am Said:

    Is that short for ‘video on demand anal’?

  4. Arlen Parsa, on January 5th, 2010 at 8:14 am Said:

    Your guess is as good as mine.

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