YOU, my friend, who I am happy so to have found you on this blogging post when I did do the search Google.
YOU are the happiest new person of great articles I will found. Look familiar to you at all? If so you may very well be having the Spam Shams on the best blog wonderful of good information articles I have read.
Seriously though. Having been around the Internet for quite some time now, and having had various web sites/blogs over the course of the past 20 or so years (at least), I think it would be safe to say that when it comes to spam comments, I’ve seen them all.
When a comment starts out by telling you that you are the next best thing to sliced bread and the greatest writer they’ve seen since their time spent at Shakespeare’s knee, you can be fairly certain that the user name is going to contain a link to some sort of product they’re promoting and trying to push past your egocentric eyes.
Who doesn’t like to hear a bit of praise now and again? Especially when it comes from a complete stranger who is so intelligent that they’re able to recognize your genius on a post about tongue depressors being made from wood.
No one could have said it better, and now that I’ve convinced you of your greatness please ignore the fact that there is not only a link in my user name, but ten or more strewn throughout the rest of this largely incomprehensive comment. After the largesse due such a wondrous wordsmith as yourself, what generally follows is just common claptrap. As you’re basking in the glow of such praise, you are also too blinded by it that you don’t even read the rest of the comment, so allow it to slip by, and actually reply! Congrats! You have just been Spam Shammed.
I figured this little game out very quickly as I know my limitations. When I found such unwarranted praise awaiting me in moderation, I knew it to be highly suspicious. Any comment from someone whose user name contains a link in it somewhere is a spammer. No ifs, ands or buts about it.
While I have Askimet, every site owner’s friend installed, and it continues to do the miraculous job of tracking and catching spam as it’s always done, I don’t have it set to automatically trash what it finds as spam comments, because on a very rare occasion it will capture a real comment, so I keep mine set to keep all comments in moderation until I manually delete them. Sometimes they’re just really funny to read too.
I love the ones that tell you what a great webmaster you are and could you let them know how you ever managed to make your site load faster than Superman ever thought of jetting to Krypton and back. The thing with that is half of the people on the Internet now wouldn’t know a webmaster if it reached up and bit them on the ass.
ANYONE can claim to be a webmaster these days as long as they have just a little technical knowledge and the ability to download WordPress or some other CMS. Won’t someone know they didn’t construct said site from scratch, coding php and writing HTML and or CSS or whatever format a template is constructed with? Want to take off all references to someone else’s hard ass work and brains?
There’s a plugin for that. Of course those plugins usually aren’t free, but when you’re charging someone an arm and a leg (which they expect, after all, you’re GREAT), the relatively low cost of a premium plugin is peanuts.
I have a free one that I use to skin my login pages. Not because I don’t want to give credit to WordPress, but because I have a totally anal compulsion to have everything match. I also like to be able to replace their link with one of my own to another site, or a favorite post. They have a link in my footer and that’s good enough. I’m never reticent to tell anyone about my choice of site platforms.
There is a profligate number of new sites appearing recently and I guess that was bound to happen the way technology moves forward. That and the increasing number of new domains available, and some poor schmucks who think they can parlay their Facebook Fan Pages into riches. THAT is a whole other post, but my point is that new site owners are often very inexperienced and if they haven’t had an actual webmaster set up their sites for them so that they never have to worry about getting a spam comment, will boundless be taken in by some of the spam shammer’s techniques.
I’d like to interject here before I go farther that I think you CAN be a webmaster and make use of CMS at the same time. Please don’t send hate mail.
Now! Let’s take a look at a few actual comments.
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If you don’t know any better that last one might make you hit the approve button. What did all of these comments I’ve copied here from another site I don’t own, but do manage, have in common other than their blatant flattery? Links in the user name. Every Single One. SO, if you are new to blogging, site ownership, or any other type of endeavor on the Internet where you have reason to have comments, and you have those turned on, remember that little rule of thumb and if you manually remove or approve your comments, it will help you to scan through them quickly.
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The Rock Would Love These Babies
I think everyone that is familiar with “The Rock” or Dwayne Johnson as he would like to be known now, is well aware of his famous cocked eyebrow gaze, and I think he would probably love the looks of these babies. Caution: Do NOT Try This At Home. 😉
Source: Tomorrow’s Theme
Source: Nanners
Source: wetpaint
Source: acidcow
Source: tcmag
Source: cities of gold
Source: khyde
Source: smosh
Source: obvious winner
Source: wallshit
Source: cities of gold
These are absolutely hilarious, but if you have a baby and you think you just might want to create a picture to embarrass them with on a first date or something, make sure you find something to do the deed with that is water soluble. LOL Otherwise your baby is going to have their brows until they wear off!
Tastes Like Moo-Cow
You know, I was driving along today and saw a cow wandering in a pasture, and I thought to myself,
“aw, he’s cute… but I’d still eat him”.
Then, it was like I could actually taste a charbroiled steak on my palette as I imagined which part of the cow that piece of meat came from.
I don’t know how anybody in their right mind could pass up a nice, juicy, tender piece of meat.
Okay, so I’m not comfortable with eating just any kind of meat – I typically stick to the meats I know – but I still eat the stuff in general.
How can anyone not like the flavour and texture? I just don’t get it.
I mean, I have a vegetarian relation and it drives me crazy when she quivers every time meat comes near her. She’s eaten meat in her past, although she never really enjoyed it, but come on, what’s not to enjoy?
Bah, oh well. I guess it just means there’s more meat for me.
Perhaps I shouldn’t complain so much about those vegitarts.
Are You Pouring Your Beer Right?
Evidently there is a specific way you’re supposed to pour a beer. I always thought that if I managed to get it all in the glass without too much head or not filling the glass too full so it didn’t pour down the sides that I was doing OK. Also different types of beer demand different glasses. Go figure. Here are a few of the different types- British and Irish styles 1 Tankard 2 Toby jug 3 Yard of ale 4 Pint glass International styles 1 Pilsner glass 2 Connoisseur’s glassware 3 Snifters 4 Taster glasses 5 Plastic glasses
Which Is Which?
German, Austrian and Swiss styles 1 Weizen glasses 2 Beer stein 3 Maß 4 Stangen and becher 5 Beer Boot Belgian and Dutch styles 1 Flute glass 2 Goblet or Chalice 3 Tulip glass 4 Café glasses One of the first suggestions I found for pouring the perfect beer was that the glass you use should be clean, because any type of residue in a dirty glass will not allow the proper amount of head and will also change the taste. My own thought would be that it’s just funky to drink out of a dirty glass, so all this other stuff is an extra added bonus. Now it gets complicated. You’re supposed to be holding your glass at a 45 degree angle. Unless you carry a protractor around you’re going to have to guesstimate this. Once you do you are supposed to hit the glass in the middle of the slope and don’t worry about pouring too hard because some air between the glass and the beer isn’t supposed to hurt anything. Pull out your protractor again and bring the glass to an angle of 90 degrees and keep on pouring right into the middle. This is supposed to give it a good head and to help with that you can even add distance between whatever vessel you’re pouring from and your glass because this makes the head better as well and that gives you a better chance to smell the beer too. A perfect head is between an inch and and inch and a half. 
Australia, where our Jo Budd hails from probably has as many type glasses to pour into as are in those lists because before metrification in Australia, you could buy beer in glasses of size 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 15 and 20 fluid ounces. (Imperial) Each sized glass had a different name in each Australian state. These were replaced by glasses of size 115, 140, 170, 200, 285, 425 and 570 ml. Now that you’ve chosen one of those glasses from those lists up there, and you have been taught how to pour a perfect beer with excellent head, reach down into your ice cooler and pop a top on that aluminum can, or twist the cap off that bottle and tilt your head back and start swallowing.
I hope you’ve found this information helpful in your daily quest for beer consumption. I mean PLEASE- what happens when you’re half corked? I can see myself tilting a glass and scoping out the angle until I’m sure I have it at 45 degrees. LMAO Who takes drinking beer that seriously? Anywho- if you do, maybe there’s a bit of info in here you didn’t know about, and if you knew all this stuff already, I bet you’re a blast at parties. 😉