Meatloaf and Meat Loaf - Learn the differences SPAMMER..

Spammers are up to new tricks these days in the race to infiltrate your blog and maybe gain a few accidental clicks by unsuspecting legitimate readers who then end up at whatever useless drivel the spammer's attempting to sell this time. The latest trick? Personalized "spam". This is spam that has slid by the old "spam drain" and at first glance, appears to be a legitimate, if not all that original comment left by some random reader who actually read something you posted.

But read it again, carefully this time, and its obvious the spammer has created an "all purpose" generic comment - designed to appear an appropriate response to any number of things, and indeed, is sent out to a multitude of blogs in every writing venue. My first clue was when I re-read a comment left on my humorous, if not quite nice, post dedicated to my long-dead grandparents. The post is vivid in its details - complete with visual aids for clarification. These already unflattering pictures have been made screamingly hideous by the addition of monster heads I photoshopped to the naked, wrinkled bodies of demented old people who appear to have been residing at some sort of care home when the photo was taken. (Disturbing all by itself.) Anyway, the gist of the post is how traumatic seeing an elderly person naked for the first time can be to a small child - who is convinced he/she is seeing a monster in the flesh - and it can scar them for life! The spammers well-thought out comment to my psychological vomit offering to the masses went something like: "Excellent information from this blog post! I will definitely bookmark your blog for further school research"... Riiiiight.......

So anyway. Here is an equally ridiculous "all purpose" comment by a Spammer who appeared to have latched on only to the word "meat loaf" when he webcrawled blogs for fun and profit, and annoyance purposes, and came across my post called "Dressing up Meatloaf for Halloween". The photoshopped copy is hard to read so I reproduced the comment and my reply for your convenience. Here is the link to the original post and comment section - if you're interested.

FROM:

Drop Shop
drop-shop.co.za/
dimitri2002@shopha.com
41.213.126.5 Submitted on 2009/10/16 at 8:37am


"Meat Loafed's unforgettable ballads and rock duets have gotten him to superstardom and you can get concert tickets today to see him live".
Drop Shop

MY reply:

surveygirl46

letmygerbilgo.wordpress.comlyricalsoul46@yahoo.com71.197.68.189
Submitted on 2009/10/16 at 9:16am

Dear Drop Shop: "I’m SO glad you took the time to read my post in it’s entirety. By your comment it appears that you DO KNOW A LOT ABOUT MEATLOAF! But I’m curious as to which, if any, Meatloaf song was playing in your head when you got to the a certain part in the post and you realize that meat loaf has been trapped in a stinky fridge for over two weeks. Did you envision in your mind's eye a meat loaf growing moldier and more despondent every day? Did your heart ache in knowing that meat loaf most likely never even came remotely close in guessing what kind of END Fate had in store for him?.. I’m guessing that even a songwriter of meat loaf's magnitude would be hardpressed to come up with the right words to express in ballad form, the desolation one feels in finally escaping the fridge to FREEDOM - only to caught again - sliced up, rolled in putrid cat shit, coated in used kitty litter, and handed over to 3 asshole teenage boys whose intent is to heat him up at 450 degrees and consume him with a bottle of Heinz ketchup like some Meat/Poop burrito - one that even AM/PM wouldn't feel right selling to innocent consumers. Well, there's only ONE MeatLoaf song I know of that even comes close to accurately protraying such lonely feelings of hopelessness and the sudden obsessive urge to commit suicide - and that song could only be “Praying for the End of Time”. So my point is this: If you think the Meat Loaf I got to know personally that fateful Halloween will be giving a public concert on this planet anytime soon, I'd advise you to confirm his physical whereabouts before selling tickets for something that probably won't ever happen again. IF there even WAS anything left of poor Meatloaf from that fateful night, and i'm sure his experience was BEYOND ketchup-curdling, it's probably correct to assume he's way beyond moldy by now. So telling fans that they can buy tickets to see him LIVE is probably stretching it a bit. The best they're gonna get these days, if anything AT ALL, is witnessing the patheticness of the left over meat loaf from that night - and i'm guessing this meat loaf will be nothing more than a severely worked over, horrible smelling, jaded, pyschologically destroyed piece of bargain bin chuck that most likely has nothing left to sing about..."

I doubt the Spammer will even check back to see if I kept his comment or not, after all his job ended when his trick worked and he gained entry! But little does he realize that I have my own tricks - like setting up innocent spammers to be featured as "special guest stars" in future posts on an often insulting, socially incorrect, humor blog....