Pobox’s spam filter bounced something purporting to be from Arturo Fuente <yoichi@t-online.de> – someone with a Spanish name and a Japanese handle, posting from Germany? Not impossible, of course.

(Russell advises me that Arturo Fuente is a brand of cigar. Do they grow tobacco in Perú?)

There is a website for strange search-strings that turn up in your referral logs, but is there one for funny randomly-generated spam titles? Today’s Ogre prize goes to gretchen sovkhoz wesleyan.

I’ve had quite enough bogus PayPal verification notices, thank you, you can stop now.

It took less than three days for spammers to find a temporary address that I posted on an unimportant website.

Seen among another blog’s comments:

Unusual ideas can make enemies.
Posted by: Thomas Jennifer at December 9, 2003 06:33 PM

Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.
Posted by: Sakano Jennifer Goldsborough at December 20, 2003 01:47 PM

Since neither observation has any obvious relation to the history of the kilogram, I am not particularly amazed to find that each contains a p*n*s enl*rgem*nt link.

2004 Oct 30: Now that I have comments, similar fortune-cookies have been submitted here.

Xygos lhxdhc vijhsb There was enough material there to enable him to prepare several new tricks which he had learned from some of the jugglers in the circus, and he had passed part of the night in getting them ready Rob’s storage batteries are not powerful enough to electrocute one or set the house on fire

Received this morning:

Subject: bronto turn back time
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 07:26:35 -0500