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Thoughts after watching excerpts from Lana Lang's "Metropolis" on YouTube
Will they ever get around to filming the Spinrad/Grass collaboration, The Tin Dream? -
An old-fashioned girl
This piece of spam shows up periodically in inappropriate places on houston craigslist. Spelling, viz:
Im just looking for a one night stand - w4m - 23
please no weirdos. I just want to be f**ked with out any strings attached. you come over then you come then you leave. very simple.
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None of that kinky stuff for her! -
and I thought I was "normal"....
From an ad seeking chat pals:
"male or female...i dont care..gay bi straight..trans..i dont care...i jsut want friends....
anyways. any normal people out there??"
...how many absolutely normal transsexuals (or transvestites either) does she expect to find?? -
Unclear on the spamcept
Lately some really brainless spammer has been posting "ads" in craigslist personals with lines of random nonsense before and after the ad copy. This of course is a ploy to keep spam-checker bots from recognizing e-mail spam as fake. You and I know that it is not going to fool personals browsers into thinking the ads were written by real people; in ( Read more... ) -
Hope springs eternal
I've just been waking up (as usual these days) by browsing and flagging the "women4men" ads on craigslist... I usually go right there after checking my mail. It's mindless if somewhat morbid fun ( Read more... ) -
The Kissing Disease
Though I'm not looking for companionship right now, I read and flag the "women seeking men" ads on craigslist daily for fun. About 90% of posts in that section (and about half of those left after community flagging) are not from lonely women but from spambots hoping to lure men to sign up on pay websites - or occasionally (so I hear) from ( Read more... ) -
The Mnemesis from Memior
Bad spelling in high places: a slick sidebar ad* from Amazon.com characterizes Dick DeBartolo's Good Days and Mad, about his years at MAD magazine, as a "memior". No, I don't think it's meant as a joke.
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Sam. Johnson overturned in grave off interstate.net
The following text was forwarded to me as a caption to a photo of a big semi truck lying on its side along a highway. Since there is not much interest in a blurry photo of an unidentifiable overturned 18-wheeler, I assume the motivation for the posting was sheer glee at the opportunity to make fun of an established commercial institution (Wal-Mart ( Read more... ) -
More archeological humor
They Might Be Giants have asked their fanbase to link to their new video, "The Mesopotamians" at their MySpace. It's lithic. -
Fridge growth in the UK
I happened to be looking at a news story about the UK supermarket chain Tesco (supposed to be a good long-term investment when it opens stores in the U.S. as Fresh & Easy) and found this on a sidbar: "Non-food sales reach £3.9bn, with particular growth in hard goods, such as fridges". Apparently they have the same sort of non-edible fridge growth ( Read more... )