Who doesn’t love spam? Aside from those of us who already have all the Propecia and foreclosed homes we can handle. Like anyone else on the Internet, we here at GameCola swallow a steady diet of spam comments on our posts, briefly entertaining the notion that we need cheap Gucci handbags before sending all unwelcome comments into the Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerator. Unlike anyone else on the Internet, the spambots we seem to attract are funnier than we are.
That being said, I’m handing over control of this column to the kindly machines that continually advise me to resize my manly bits. Clearly, they are a resource that should be tapped more often (the kindly machines, that is; I’m not Christian Porter). With the help of my fellow staff writers, I’ve been collecting the most amusing spam comments Viagra can buy. Let’s see what hysterical filth has managed to attach itself to our articles, shall we?
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In my informative “Impaired Closed Captioning: EarthBound” column, I unveiled some dark secrets about Google, shared frightening insights about GameCola’s Editor-in-Chief, and discussed the possible criminal history of U2 vocalist Bono. In response to this enlightening post, spambot Lavan writes: “You have more useful info than the British had coolneis pre-WWII.” Thank you, spambot Lavan. I pride myself on my inability to distinguish between whether you meant “coolness” or colonies.”
On the subject of EarthBound, my Thanksgiving-themed EarthBound video was a revolutionary stroke of brilliance, as Jacklynn points out: “That’s a mold-bearker. Great thinking!” I wonder sometimes whether our spam commenters actually know what spam is, or whether we’re just being targeted by some English class in a foreign nation for extra-credit writing practice.
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Looking beyond GameCola to the blogs of our contributors, we’ve got a real winner from Jillian Dingwall, whose rant about annoying online abbreviations entitled “Abbreviate This: *middle finger*” prompted this important nugget: “Chicken is placed back into the rice very carefully, covered and placed back in the oven for about 10 minutes. Badgers.”
From Jillian: “That’s it. Nothing else. Wtf is the deal with the badgers???”
Perhaps “badgers” is cutesy new slang for “bad,” as another spam commenter goes on to say, “Hrm, Not the best post unfortunately. Sorry to be so blunt! You should try some Norwegian carrot cake to cheer you up instead”
I…think I need something stronger than carrot cake. The fact that these are actual, legitimate spam comments is starting to warp my perceptions of reality, and I’m going to end up like Matt Jonas if I keep at this much longer. It’s probably best to make a graceful exit while I can, leaving you with some sage parting advice I picked up from a reader named Tennis Videos on an old “Pimp My ‘Cola” article:
“When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.”
[“Spam Attack” logo credit: Colin Greenhalgh]
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I really hope this post gets its own spam. I just found an old spam that I think is pretty swell. It was posted on my base wars review (http://gamecola.net/2010/04/base-wars-nes/) by the author “canada goose”:
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JJM’s response is brilliant. “Go F*** a Monkey”. I agree.
The hyperlink didn’t appear in my comment did it. Balls. This was on my Sonic 3D Blast review. I think we shouldn’t delete any spam comments from this post if it gets some.
Your wish is my command! I just approved one that didn’t make it through yesterday.
…Of course, having approved it, I think that now gives Mulberry Handbags free reign to post spam on the site without it going through a filter first. Oops.
I believe if we mark something as spam, it disappears from the post but still hangs around in our spam filter that’s invisible to the general public. No need to keep spam comments listed here; I’ll fish out the best ones and save them for next time.
Also, I’m getting a little claustrophobic with these reply windows…
Was that first one just trying to send us a subliminal message or something? I don’t think that they did cheap oakley a very good job with making it seem, I don’t know, inconspi-cheapoakleysunglasses-cuous?