Just call me Sir Spamalot
Posted By Ing on March 15, 2008
No, not because of the play. I hate Broadway-style theater, and wouldn’t go to Spamalot if you paid me — but I do like Monty Python, and right now I’m feeling a little bit like the lady in their Spam sketch. (See it in my video sidebar or on my Vodpod page.)
But I don’t want Spam!
Like the lady in the Monty Python sketch, I’m even screaming “I DON’T LIKE SPAM!” But the mindless Vikings keep singing, and the Green Midget cafe of the Internet is serving it up in every dish.
I took precautions against spam early on by installing Akismet (great tool for all the WordPressers out there), and it has done a great job of keeping the blog spam-free, but until about a week ago, I had only received a grand total of about 32 spam comments. Just in the last week Akismet has fielded more than 80, most of them tiny variations on the same theme.
I’d like to think it’s because of the skyrocketing popularity of Blog Ing, but my stat counter doesn’t support that illusion.
However, I did write a post about spam comments a few days ago — just before the spam invasion started – in which I posted the entire text of one of them because I thought it was funny. I stripped out the links, of course (I’m not that stupid). Still, posting it in any form was probably foolish. Could have sent my gullibility index through the roof, as far as spammers are concerned.
(Note #1328 to Self: Don’t post about spam…after this one is done, that is.)
Who am I supposed to be again?
Actually, after watching the Spam sketch again, I think maybe I’m not the “I don’t like Spam” lady. I’m probably the clueless tourist who wanders in with his phrase book and says “Great boobies honeybun, my lower intestine is full of Spam, egg, bacon, spam, tomato, and….”
And then the Bobbies blow their whistles and come in to cart me off while the Spam Vikings just keep on singing.
Ah me, I love the wide, wide world o’ web.
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