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trackback spam again and food and films
Oh bugger, Mrs McMuffin has done it again. Her unhealthy interest in buying men over the internet appears to have unleashed a torrent of trackback spam. I made my annual visit to her parents this evening, and when we returned we had 28 emails. I got a bit excited for a minute...well really only for a few seconds...until I realised that they were all from trackback porn scum spammers (Mrs McMuffin challenges you to say this more than twice without getting in a tizz). I have now closed all trackback and email notification of trackback too. And I have deleted the emails too. I was concerned that Mrs McMuffin, who was beginning to foam at the mouth, intended to spend the rest of her evening banning the IP addresses of the phantom spammers. I know what of I speak. She has done this before.
I'm off to have some sushi bought from Waitrose and to watch the US version of The Ring again. I have ended up with a vegi version of sushi because that was all they had. I am having to eat this because Mrs McMuffin, who has cooked us dinner the last four nights, will not shut up about how much cooking she does. Oh, and she keeps talking about what a good cook she is becoming after gaining so much experience of cooking over the last few days. She also reckons that it is unnatural for a woman to spend that much time in the kitchen. I have to confess that the food hasn't been bad, apart from how mean she is with the seasoning.
PS Mrs McMuffin has suddenly become very concerned about my predilection for starting sentences with And and Although, but I don't care. I am a rebel report writer and ain't noone ever gonna change me.
PPS Picked at random from a Google search: The Sassy Lawyer's Journal appears to have similar concerns.
mr mcmuffin on 20 Oct 2004 @ 08:43 PM ✲ Permalink
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Hey, I sent you a mail today too. I hope you didn't delete it along with all that spam!
Posted by: Steve | 20 Oct 2004 21:27:09
And I don't care how I start sentences either. Although it is bad grammar.
Posted by: Steve | 20 Oct 2004 21:28:51
But who cares about grammar these days?
Posted by: Kirsty | 20 Oct 2004 22:50:48
I have a friend who does lots of my editing work on my stuff, and she has one pass-through that she calls "And Repair." Because I start my sentences with And. And because.
Posted by: Jo | 20 Oct 2004 23:42:46
Nothing wrong with starting sentences with 'and'. I remember being taught not to at primary school - but they also said, "There's no such word as 'can't'!" It's all nonsense. If you're writing a blog, the genre is typically one which reflects more closely how you speak than, say, a formal legal text. And if you examined some normal speech in detail, you'd be shocked by the things we all do but which we don't realise we do: repetition, half-phrases being corrected, um and ah and er and erm and stuff, etc, etc. We might think that we don't - but we do!
I recently had a couple of bits of normal comment spam which weren't sent to me by e-mail. I saw the first one on my Recent Comments list, erased it, and then a day or so later the second one - an exact copy of the first one - appeared on the same posting. I deleted that one, too, and then closed the comments on the posting in question. All other comments around that time were forwarded by TypePad to my e-mail. So somehow - and I have no idea how - this spam must have been designed in a way that prevented it from being forwarded. Now that's scary! It also helps us see why having a Recent Comments list is a good idea. As for TrackBacks - bah, who needs them?!!
Posted by: David (TEFL Smiler) | 21 Oct 2004 00:49:21
I must write incredibly boring posts (no comments please) as I have very little spam...spam..spam...spam. Sorry.
Also, as long as you do not use the hated word, 'like' peppered in your conversation, I am quite fine with you using And and Although in your sentence structure.
Really, I just want to know what Mrs. Mc. M has been cooking.....'cause that is the way I am.
You do realise that your fishcakes are now infamous in Brabant don't you?
Posted by: jo | 21 Oct 2004 01:17:22
I'm kind of relieved that Mr McMuffin has written a post again after several days mysterious absence. What with all this ominous talk about Ukranian male brides I was beginning to wonder if this was the blog version of a Hitchcock movie ("The Husband Vanishes", perhaps). Now I can relax again.
Posted by: David (another one) | 21 Oct 2004 07:52:41
... and how nice it is to have David back in blogland full time, even though it is at the expense of gainful employment.
Posted by: Steve | 21 Oct 2004 08:12:29
I am not really a grammar Nazi-just look at my posts. I am a bit fussier when it comes to court reports though, there's no point in winding up a pernickety judge...and Mr McMuffin did ask me to read it, on my HOLIDAY!
Jo, my food has not been wildly exciting:
Sat: Fresh crabs with garlic mayonnaise (so much easier than making my own aoli) bread and salad (tomato, watercress and chicory)
Sun: Venison sausages (the only sausages I can stomach) in onion sauce and mash.
Mon: Roast beef, Yorkshire pud, potch with greens and gravy
Tues: scraps! Baked potatoes with onions, peppers, tomatoes and peppered salami in pesto.
There, that will stick to your ribs!
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 21 Oct 2004 09:21:17
What is potch? Is that something they only grow down south? I don't think our local shops sell it.
Posted by: Steve | 21 Oct 2004 20:56:22
Potch is what my parents call potato and swede mash. Mr McMuffin calls it clapshot and says it's made with 'turnip'.
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 21 Oct 2004 22:16:22
OK, I Googled it and apparently it's a "South Wales" thing, which explains a lot, though mentions of it a very, very rare. Probably it's dying out and you do well to keep it alive. Clapshot is much more common, one would go so far as to say rife. I'll have to give it a go one day, though I haven't yet decided which name I'll go for. Btw, only "posh" people (and the welsh) call Swedes Swedes, to everyone else they're turnips. And turnips are called "little white turnips".
Posted by: Steve | 21 Oct 2004 22:48:31
You are both wrong. Turnips are the big ones and Swedes are the little ones. At least that's what I was taught in Scotland.
Posted by: mr mcmuffin | 22 Oct 2004 07:33:30
Clapshot? You can get cream to put on that, and it should be cleared up in a week or so!
Mrs M: You've been feeding Mr M goat-food (turnip and swedes, and disgusting stuff like that), and all he's complained of is the meanness on the seasoning? Wow, that's devotion for you! I think that if any spouse ever attempted to feed me any root vegetable, I'd be straight down the divorce courts. With right on my side!
Posted by: David (TEFL Smiler) | 22 Oct 2004 09:09:22
I don't understand what he is say either.
This was an appropriate posting for comment spam to be place don though, no?
Posted by: Steve | 8 Nov 2004 23:07:59
f*ck f*ck f*ck, I hope Sandy doesn't see my typo!
Posted by: Steve | 8 Nov 2004 23:08:27
too late :-PPPPPP
Posted by: Sandy | 8 Nov 2004 23:28:47
Say goodbye to Mr Reals**
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 9 Nov 2004 08:32:33
Hello Mr Reals.
Posted by: Steve | 9 Nov 2004 09:02:42
You're yet to move the link/disable the functionality of the link. If you let them linger, I'm sure they attract more. They become embedded within your archives as a breeding ground of some kind, I read somewhere. I can't for the moment remember why this is a problem, I admit. But apparently it's a very bad thing to do, not to destroy the buggers.
Posted by: David (TEFL Smiler) | 9 Nov 2004 12:58:07
