Justin Cox Presents:

I Love Bacon… But this is Weird

I get a nice bit of spam here on the site. As I said the other day, most of it is absolute garbage. I know that a mere week or so ago I said I got the spam comment to end them all, but I’ve got to tell you, what you’re about to see absolutely takes the cake. Intrigued? Keep reading.

On the 2nd of October my inbox rang in a new email from someone named Rebecca. The spam(?) that was contained is basically an attempt at viral marketing with absolutely no apparent purpose. The email, in its entirety, now follows:

Hey Justin,

Thought you might be interested in checking out the latest in bacon mania making the rounds…

BaconMan!

YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZC_CYJcnEA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FAw5k96LJw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twpIu_tQlnE&feature=related

You can check him out on Twitter too if you’re on there… #baconman

Giving you any Halloween costume ideas? I was thinking this or Tina Fey as Sarah Palin

Rebecca

I can’t tell what the purpose of this is at all. I can’t tell if it’s a product or someone just trying to get internet famous. While I was at PAX, there was a guy in a bacon suit that looked a lot like this one hocking Bacon Salt, but I’m not sure if this is related.

I’ll let you be the judge. If you’ve got any idea what this is all about, let me know in the comments. And if you’re Rebecca, please tell me what is up. Thanks.

~ fin ~

One Spam Comment to Rule Them All

Being a blog on the internet with open commenting I get a fair amount of spam comments. The various WordPress features and plugins I have generally do a good job of keeping out about 99.9% of these spam comments, but there is the occasional one that gets through. One such comment made it through earlier today and cracked me up enough that I had to share it.

Lie down on a car accident and char do everything gigantic boobs else would take five.

That’s it. Obviously some random word generator went haywire and created a sentience to get past spam catchers. I don’t really have anything else to say about it. It just cracked me up.

What’s the funniest spam comment you’ve ever seen?

~ fin ~

Twitter Spammers Need Some Creativity

Twitter, the social network/microbloging site, is a very popular service. This, of course, means that it’s a ripe ground for spammers. Oh filthy spammers, how I loath ye. Anyway, I got an email this morning telling me I have a new Twitter follower. It was a spammer, though a very uncreative spammer. This is the email I got:

porn_website22 huh? Not exactly clever. Good thing blocking a spammer is as simple as clicking ‘block.’ Silly spammers. When will they ever learn?

~ fin ~