I just (at long last) went to the Pending Comments section of this blog and looked at the 140 comments that were waiting for approval. (What you see below is copied and pasted without change or, obviously, correction.)
Yesterday, someone calling themselves looky commented on a post from August, 2010:
Actually, I?m a blog starter. I just want more people to visit my blog to make me a popular blog. I?m capable of writing, and I know writing skill is a must. But is there any other way to make my blog more popular?.
Well, that is a good question, isn’t it? And no, it had nothing whatsoever to do with the post.
The day before that, porn video (listen, I don’t make these up) said:
You have made some decent points there. I looked on the net for additional information about the issue and found most people will go along with your views on this web site.
The post was about my mother-in-law. Glad so many folks agree with me!
And around that same time, Telefonkatalogen.biz said:
Very good article! We are linking to this great post on our website.
Keep up the good writing.
Oh, Tele — may I call you Tele? — you make me blush!
And on 7/27, Timmy (who comes up with these names?) said:
My spouse and I stumbled over here coming from a different paqge and thought I mayy as well check things out.
I like what I see sso now i am following you. Look forward to
looking over your web page ffor a second time.
That’s sso nicce to hearr! Thannks!
That was just two short days before Johne998 commented:
Thanks for the sensible critique. Me & my neighbor were just preparing to do a little research about this. We got a grab a book from our area library but I think I learned more clear from this post. I am very glad to see such wonderful info being shared freely out there. ccgbdddfeakb
I do rather enjoy the ones that are carefully generic (“You have made some decent points there…”), and also like the ones that sound like something out of an absurdist play. (Yeah, I’m talking to you, Johne998, and I’m not sure what that secret message at the end, “ccgbdddfeakb,” meant. I can’t find my decoder ring.)
link dafabet‘s had a hint of Pinter about it, too:
However affordable home improvement it does not matter whether you are in synchronization with your furniture style, curtains, and interiors.
But, really, my very favorites are the ones that sound like we came in in the middle of a conversation, like this one, also from looky:
I already have a college degree so I don’t need the credit. I don’t want to pay a ton of money for it, but I do want an actual class with actual assignments. And that’s creative writing as in FICTION. Thanks for your help. A class on the Northside would be great..
I agree, looky, a class on the Northside would be great!
Johnf48 (must be Johne998‘s brother; I think I see a family resemblance) said:
Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as though you relied on the video to make your point. You obviously know what youre talking about, why throw away your intelligence on just posting videos to your site when you could be giving us something enlightening to read? geggfddbdfkd
Er, say what? Or, rather, say geggfddbdfkd?
These that sound like snippets of actual conversation are much better than the random words strung together (I had some of those waiting, too). But they make me wonder…are they actual comments, lifted whole and dropped in here, where they don’t make sense? What was the conversation about? Where was it? A blog? A forum somewhere? Some of them sound a little contentious. Had someone disagreed with them? And what oh what happened next?
Really, spambots, if you at least make it a little bit entertaining, I’ll let you stay!