No, this isn’t some post about a Monty Python skit.  This is about spam with a lower-case “s.”  The kind that seems to flood every e-mail in-box across the planet, and of late, this backwater blog site.

I understand that most of the spam posting is automated, but still, at some point some human somewhere on the globe had to go, “thedailybizarre.com, hell yeah, let’s keep that site on the spam list.”

Not that I mind, really, I don’t get enough to make it more than a minor annoyance but I do wonder how desperate the spammers must be to waste their bytes and bandwidth on sites like mine that get tens of visits a month.

And my hat’s off the WordPress Akismet plug-in designers.  It has done a near-perfect job of weeding out what little spam I do get; close to 99.99% I’d say.  Since I got linked from W00tstock! experience page my per-week spam postings have almost tripled.  Some of them, are quite humorous so I thought I’d share some with you since you’ll never see them in the comments.

Olympia Jean Snow writes:

I never in a million years would’ve considered to look at things in that light. This should make my life a lot easier.

I know the W00tstock! event was fun, but I doubt it made anyone’s life any easier. 

Carrer in flash writes:

I didn’t quite understand this to begin with. But when I checked it out a third time, it all became clear. Thanks for the idea. Certainly something to spend some time on.

I don’t write for 3rd graders, but I really didn’t feel my W00tstock! post should have required three passes to garner all of its wisdom.  At least Mr. Flash will be spending some time there, I know he’ll have fun.

Galen Koller writes:

That’s cool. I’m from London and see the same thing. Anyway, I’m gonna back tomorrow.

I didn’t know the W00tstock crew had made it across the pond already.  “gonna back tomorrow” must be some new English slang.  I’m going to start using that.

Kareen McMurry writes:

Ah, I discover the fact has limitless debatable points. I don’t wish to argue with you here, but I have my very own opinions as well. Anyway, you probably did a terrific job in writing the post, and would like to reward you for the onerous work. Sustain with the great job!

I guess Kareen didn’t have as good of a time at W00tstock! as I did.  At least she concluded that I “probably” did a terrific job writing the post.  I’m still waiting for my reward, Kareen, if you’re reading this.

And finally, Sealy Matress Rating writes:

Hi, i must fantastic site you have, i stumbled across it in Yahoo. Does you get much traffic?

So much fail in one comment.  And, for the record, Mr./Ms. Rating, no, this site does not get much traffic.  Please take note of that and pass it along to your spammer buddies.  And I mean this in the best possible way, please do the world a favor and die in a fire. 

I’m gonna back tomorrow.