From: [Rev Dave]
Date: December 16, 2011 10:19:49 AM GMT
To: korrektiv@gmail.com
Subject: I need you to be poeticDear sirs,
I am a blog writer of no apparent note. Every time I write a post and publish it, I receive spam. The english in these spams is clearly produced by the people who brought us the english translations we find in the box along with (name your own appliance) that has been made lovingly in China.
For example: “I am impressed with this internet site , rattling I am a big fan”.
Now perhaps they really are so overjoyed I am writing these thoughts that they actually vibrate in a holistic way. Or perhaps they are a yet undiscovered sect of poets whose genre we have never seen in the post printing press world. I am kind of hoping it is the latter.
I think this is one area we should not let the chinese steal a march in. Could you write a haiku that would both praise the blog writer while at the same time saying nothing?
I wait your answer with the intention of rattling when I read it.
Rev Dave
Friday Mailbag: I need you to be poetic
December 16, 2011 by at 12:57 am
Great thoughts here, your blog
speaks to something all desire
buy Ciali$ cheap
Well played, Southern Expat.
Amen. Can’t improve upon perfection.
What makes Expat’s work here especially special is that she matched the inevitable ‘turn’ of a spam comment (from inarticulate flattery to shameless sales pitch) with the ‘turn’ at the end of a haiku.
Brava.
This could be close to the tag line of the blog. It should find its way to a side bar. Brilliant.
Online confession!
Sins go here in the comments
I will be back soon
I can’t match Expat’s genius, but I tried to do something appropriate for a blogging priest.
I think “Sins go here in the comments” could also be incorporated into the tagline.
You are all too kind.
I just thought I’d open a
Fresh can of spam-ku.
Get the ball rolling
Harken back to fourth grade lit:
All about haiku.
All Americans
Learned this much at some point, folks:
Five seven five – fin.
I kinda feel bad
for Japanese poets past
craftsmen in small verse
Now it’s just a phase
Kids go through with poems like
“Ode to Pokémon.”
Your Haiku is more Brilliant than Matthew’s. It is more in the ironic spirit of the blog. It should go in the sidebar.
No argument there.
It’s always been a dream of mine to have my own fixer.
Here’s a real one, pulled from the Korrektiv comment spam folder:
“I’ve been surfing online more than 3 hours nowadays, yet I never discovered any fascinating article like yours. It’s lovely worth sufficient for me. Personally, if all web owners and bloggers made just right content material as you did, the net will probably be a lot more useful than ever before.”
Challenge: translate this into spam-ku.
That person really needed some solid info on attached earlobes.
Attached lobe info
just right content lovely worth
sufficient for me.
And by golly, I found it!
Thanks, Mr Potter, for solving the mystery of what happened to my long-lost first comment.
Searching for attached earlobes is pretty much the secret handshake around here.
Thank you (or should that be thanku) for my spamku. I rattled muchly.
Rev Dave is lovely
fascinating nowadays
web owners take note
Ecumenical
Anglican Korrektivite?
Not so grim up North!