Pitchmen Without a Prayer

I’ve bitched and beefed before about the amount of spam comments I get here on Tell Me A Story. A lot -- both the amount of spam-age and my kvetching about it.

I still read them (versus auto delete) because, honestly, some of them are pretty damned hilarious in their failed grasp of purpose. That is, the spammer leaves the comment in hopes I’ll click on their link, visit their page and, hopefully, spend some cheddar. They’re crude marketeers and advertisers -- hucksters and pitchmen without a clue. For the most part.

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Doubtless the odd typo occasionally persists BUT I’m forever rereading and editing what I’ve posted -- fixing misspellings and nasty sentence structure even after I've hit the 'publish' button. Nonetheless, I’ve gotten this grammatically glitchy ‘sales pitch’ a few times. Clearly there's a pitch book, a Chicago Manual of Style, and E.B. White penned Elements of Style for this brand of advertising.

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The title’s boring? Really? Add a pic? Gee, honest and true? Did you even glance at my damned blog beyond the title, you pretentious, sub basement level, failed spam artist?

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This one’s not so bad really and it has the added beni of being true -- there are occasional overlap issues from platform to platform because I upload SO MANY PICS!

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Yes, yes, yez -- flatter me and I’ll click on your linky. Indeed, I AM that shallow.

I get ‘commenters’ trying to get me to click on links for Louboutin shoes, diarrhea remedies, diaper rash fixes, diet ideas, online casinos, payday loans and , of course, porn, porn. PORN.

Rarely, probably never, is the spammer linking to anything even vaguely interesting. OK, except for those shoes -- the ones I could never afford or stay upright in. Of course.

I imagine the Spam Commenting Huckster gig isn’t exactly high paying. It seems like the 21st century equivalent of the door to door brush sales-weasel. Death of a Spammer -- somehow that lacks poetry.