Aphelion

Too stupid to know how to copy and paste, I suppose . . . no matter; he'll be doing it somewhere else, now.

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Inasmuch as it's not my habit to reply to spam, I can't imagine a more appropriate place for this text than a SF webzine . . . lines and lines of alien script . . .

Lester Curtis wrote:

SmithTisk wrote:Hello All!
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Inasmuch as it's not my habit to reply to spam, I can't imagine a more appropriate place for this text than a SF webzine . . . lines and lines of alien script . . .

I like the domain name in the URL: sdfsdg**dhdfh45tb.com/ (I have replaced a couple of characters with ** in case this ISN'T something Lester substituted for the real one). Imagine registering something like that...

Thank you, Robert; it hadn't occurred to me to break the link. I'll know to watch that in the future.

Some of these jerks are incredibly unsubtle . . . they log in with usernames like 'levitra.' Fine by me; it makes it easier for me to be certain what treatment to give 'em.

Speaking of which, I've had a notion of how to deal with some of the repeat offenders I see: leaving their account active and just changing their password. I know it would only amuse me, though, and some other admin would just kick 'em without looking.

Mark Edgemon wrote:

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Isn't Russian porn the equivalent to - let's say - redneck etiquette!

Aside from oil and ex-KGB thugs, strippers and "escorts" are the mainstays of Russian-North American trade.

That's only because they haven't invented a drug to compete with crack, yet.

Mark Edgemon wrote:

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Pamiętając Wesołych czasy z przyjaciele jest zabawne . Dlaczego Pobyt i dziwnego więc co się stało im Dużo przyczyny istnieją do przywrócenia rapport . Czy jedno spekulować które przyjaciel nabyła bogaty Który Podpisano się z na wojskowe ? to naprawdę jest wyszukanie sobie .

So this commenter is from Uganda. Wow, I didn't know they spoke jibberish?

Silly rabbi, kicks are for trids. That's Polish. The most common sources for this crap are Russia, China, and Poland (based on what "Whois" says about the source IP addresses), with Ukraine and others (including U.S. IP addresses) on occasion. The funny part is that even things that are advertising (or claiming to be advertising) services in the U.S. mostly originate in the countries listed above.

Mark Edgemon wrote:

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You know, when I think of online marketing...just about the last thing I would buy...online...is car wax!

Yeah, but how else are you going to keep the car you paid for using PayPal as shiny as the day it was virtually manufactured?

Mark, stop short-selling yourself -- you have a wondrously wry wit -- and a few days to get an entry in, with the objective being funny!

Have a throw at it!

Yes, Mark. Get an entry in.

This challenge is uniquely suited to one-liners and parody. It should be right in your comfort zone as you've always described it. That kind of thing you'd do for audio pieces and commercials should be just the ticket here.

Give us a bang, not a whimper... [he said, trying to goad you].

Mark, just put it in the form of a poem if you have to. That's been done in challenges here (at least once) and it isn't against the rules. I've read your poetry, and you have a delightful way of turning a topic inside out.

If you don't want to have the final product in verse form, you might at least start it that way. I'd like to see what you can do with this.

Hey, don't laugh, that's part of my daily exercise regimen!

P. S. I will be reading your novel excerpt soon and getting back with you!

Thanks, I look forward to your comments.

I’m uncertain yet if it quite holds up to deeper scrutiny, but my in-the-moment response to "The Dark Knight Rises": it’s precisely what you’d want and expect for the concluding chapter of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. You’ve got the spectacle, the angst, the gloom, the thematic grandiosity along with the gravity, but there’s another somewhat more humor and emotion, much more sex appeal and, perhaps initially since Nolan took over, Batman himself isn’t upstaged by some other character from the film.

The most interesting issues with The Dark Knight was watching Bruce Wayne walk the moral tightrope of vigilantism. He had the power along with the clear cut a feeling of right and wrong, consider exercise that power? And workout it he did. From rendition to a surveillance system that the NSA could only desire, it’s not for free Wayne was compared in a few analyses to George W. Bush. Finally though, Wayne knows that what the law states as a symbol is a bit more important than order themselves so he agreed following the film to return to the shadows a fugitive whilst the mantle of hero was placed about the shoulders of fallen Da Harvey Dent. Children of men Rises registers 8 years later with Batman’s whereabouts unknown, Bruce Wayne a recluse, his empire crumbling and also the fragile peace of Gotham City on the verge of be shattered by the revelation that it’s with different lie.

The villain this time may be the mysterious Bane (Bad guy), who we’re travelling to in the spectacular opening involving a midair hijacking plus a kidnapped nuclear scientist. Coming across just like the Road Warrior’s Lord Humungous if he would have been a Mexican wrestler and sounding like Sean Connery crossed with Darth Vader, Bane is amongst the creepiest and most ferocious of the Bat-villains. Bent on destruction, he sets his sights on Gotham having a plan to finish the work left incomplete by R’as al Ghul in Batman Begins.

Loosely included in the businessman who believes he can harness Bane’s power to help him dominate Wayne Industries is cat burglar Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman. As Kyle, Hathaway as catwoman isn't any Michelle Pfeiffer, but she doesn’t act as and she brings a welcome note of humor and sexiness on the often too-serious and asexual franchise. Though frightening, Bane is often a charmless villain, particularly when compared with Heath Ledger’s magnificent Joker, and Hathaway goes a long way toward bridging the personality gap. At the same time, she dials back her performance a small amount. She’s an actress that can sometimes run into overeager to impress, but here she’s relaxed and confident, just like her character. It says lots which the film sags somewhat during a middle stretch when she’s conspicuously absent.

However the “just gargled with hot gravel” voice he uses as Batman extending its love to individuals who know Batman is Bruce Wayne sounds as silly as always, this might be my personal favorite Christian Bale Batman performance. He’s not simply brooding and not just angsty. Though he starts the tale as a hermit, Children of men Rises is all about reconciling the person and the myth and there’s a true human edge for the character this time around as they slowly finds himself.

Nolan has demonstrated repeatedly that he has an eye plus an imagination for pure spectacle anf the husband delivers yet again, beginning from the items discussed hijacking. He still has a frustratingly impressionistic and choppy handling of action sequences, but by this point you will need to acknowledge it as an intentional aesthetic as opposed to as incompetence. It's how it is. I don’t personally care for it, quite a few people do. Plus, however, it appears like there’s more action this time around possesses a little more spatial coherence than normal. Maybe I simply knew what you should expect and tried harder to produce visual a sense it going into. Anyway, impressionistically edited or otherwise, the Bat copter is absolutely cool.

Due to the plot, a number of it looking back doesn’t produce a wide range of sense though within the moment there was no glaring plot holes. I don’t see why Bane’s plot took 5 months to execute (apart from the belief that almost everything was required to occur in between) for instance, but maybe that’ll be clear after another viewing.

Thematically, I’m not sure Children of men Rises is rather as satisfying as being the previous film’s engaging puzzle box of ideas, however these too gets stronger on repeat viewings. Whereas we had arrived all still preoccupied with terrorism and our national reply to it in 2008, these times Nolan turns his eyes toward the country’s class divisions typified because of the occupy Wall Street movement. He’s on record as saying the main film’s inspiration came from Bull crap of Two Cities and there’s an incredibly real sense of how, like Dickens, anger could be subverted and familiar with a negative end irrespective of how righteous that anger should be to commence with. Bane uses class anger as being a shield to warrant his campaign to be a popular uprising. As you move the film for a while seems like the nightmares in the 1% stand out with unruly, angry mobs taking on the location, the sacrifices that is at least three characters finally shows Nolan’s sympathies lie avoid the powers of individualism and laissez faire capitalism, in the hearts of decent people doing the right thing whatever the personal consequences.

Using the Dark Knight, I complained which the material and inherent violence really deserved an R-rated treatment. No-one agreed with me, on the other hand still think it’s dishonest to justify a comic book book movie as being more adult on one side and saying it ought to be scrubbed clean for the children alternatively. I continue to find consequence free violence for being offensive and tonally it’s at odds together with the adult nature from the entire film. Well the same for that Dark Knight Rises. It could be a better film whether it hadn’t had to be sanitized and shrink-wrapped for pre-teens, however also understand the economics working in the decision.

Despite not having to incorporate an origin story, The Dark Knight Rises comes in at an entire Half-hour over the already lengthy Batman Begins and A quarter-hour more than The Dark Knight. Nevertheless, it seems to help you stay fully engaged. As mentioned, there are some draggy spots particularly when Hathaway isn’t on-screen, but it never fades away its welcome. The ending might be a too neat plus it reeks of unnecessary fan service, even so should also be honest was emotionally satisfying as well as a worthy bow tied in addition to what turned out to be an attractive terrific trilogy.

Mark Edgemon wrote: Except for the broken English, you might as well have submitted this to features as a movie review.

It probably WAS a movie review by some blogger, copied and pasted as part of the bait for anyone dim enough to click on the embedded links. The links (which I have removed) were labeled "Watch Magic Mike online", as was the signature (which I have also removed). God only knows where the links really went.

Looks to me like a cautionary lesson about mixing cocaine and Jose Cuervo . . .

Mark Edgemon wrote:

Lester Curtis wrote:Looks to me like a cautionary lesson about mixing cocaine and Jose Cuervo . . .

I like the way you think!

Thanks. So do I.

Hey, I ain't letting Martin Lawrence in fat-suit drag do MY web hosting.

What if has-beens have been playing Warcraft?

I'll bet that's not uncommon . . .

Mark Edgemon wrote:

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A present...really? Like...for free? Wow! Thanks!

By the way, can I decorate the icing on my cakes with prescription drugs like they do in nursing homes?

You know, folks, every time you post one of these that still leaves the name of the product or the company in the text of the message or title, the spammers kind of score points. Those products can still be found in the text by a google search, which is really what they wanted.

I know you guys are making light of them, and sometimes your posts are pretty funny, but in the end, you're winning the battle but helping to lose the war, if you catch my meaning.

My two cents. [shrug]

Mark Edgemon wrote:

kailhofer wrote: You know, folks, every time you post one of these that still leaves the name of the product or the company in the text of the message or title, the spammers kind of score points. Those products can still be found in the text by a google search, which is really what they wanted.

I know you guys are making light of them, and sometimes your posts are pretty funny, but in the end, you're winning the battle but helping to lose the war, if you catch my meaning.

My two cents. [shrug]

Life is full of salesmanship Nate and people can make their own decisions about buying something on the internet, especially a product intended to be consumed.

Nobody and I mean nobody, except idiots are going to buy something from a sales pitch in broken English with disjointed sentence structure that makes no sense at all. The two dozen ongoing regulars here know a commercial parody or comic bit when they see one!

You might be more comfortable without the stick!

The problem with your statement "nobody, except idiots..." is that there is no shortage of idiots. Hence the Tea Party and its disproportionate influence on both sides of the 49th Parallel. Poking the bear is helping the bear to lure in more victims (which, sadly, does NOT improve the gene pool. Metaphors are like that. (Wait. That means that metaphors are similes...)

The point is not what Aphelion readers will do when they see stuff like this, the point is that search engines rank results based on the number of references to a particular URL (I think) or even certain keywords. When I edit out the URLs, it probably blunts the effect (I think), but it would be easier for me and Lester (the other designated spam cop) to just delete the whole topic along with the poster's account.

if Lester agrees (by the way, good choice to bring him aboard) that it would be better for him if I stopped responding within those threads, I could always start a spam comedy topic in fun and games, copy and paste the spam excerpts into it in quotes and then take off on it there, if that would help.

I was going to suggest that. It would make things easier, and might take up less space in whatever allotment we have on our server (if that's any concern).

Mark, keep in mind, one of our registered members here is a Google bot. I'm not kidding. So, even mentioning a product name in an ordinary post gets it more points somewhere.

I know the spam ads are laughable, but I'd really prefer that we -- all of our site visitors -- get their entertainment from something other than spam.

Mark Edgemon wrote:

Lester Curtis wrote:...but I'd really prefer that we -- all of our site visitors -- get their entertainment from something other than spam.

That is a nice sentiment, but...from what! Besides commenting on stories and entering flash challenges, the only thing left to do here is posting personal comments and blogging. There would need to be an infusion of new "writers" to pick up the pace and increase site activity. The average visitor who is not a writer would likely be bored and move on quickly.

So, comedy is an easy to do, fun attention getter. We need more participation before we run out of road.

So I guess that means that you have read and commented on all the stories, etc., before you turn to comedy?

Mark Edgemon wrote:

Robert_Moriyama wrote:

Mark Edgemon wrote:...
That is a nice sentiment, but...from what! Besides commenting on stories and entering flash challenges, the only thing left to do here is posting personal comments and blogging. There would need to be an infusion of new "writers" to pick up the pace and increase site activity. The average visitor who is not a writer would likely be bored and move on quickly.

So, comedy is an easy to do, fun attention getter. We need more participation before we run out of road.

So I guess that means that you have read and commented on all the stories, etc., before you turn to comedy?

How about you? You've already read all the stories and yet the only comments you make is on other people's comments.

The authors know what I think about the stories. It doesn't really matter if anyone else does.

Mark Edgemon wrote:

Robert_Moriyama wrote:The authors know what I think about the stories. It doesn't really matter if anyone else does.

It matters to me. You're the expert.

It would, number one, be a primer for other comments. Number two, it would help the rest of us know what you know. And number three, it would provide a template to show others an example of reviewing a story, thereby encouraging people to give it a try.

Besides, how easy it would be for you to comment on all of them, seeing you've already done so with the authors.

I'm sorry you don't think I do enough.

Mark Edgemon wrote:

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Mark Edgemon wrote:

Is another path
by trueokrod » September 06, 2012, 02:19:40

We live day to day, in anticipation of the Apocalypse, in a world with no future.
But there is another way -

Not another Mitt Romney campaign come on. Paaa-leeze!

Silly boy. The "apocalypse" reference clearly indicates that this is an excerpt from Chuck Norris's "Thousand Years of Darkness" anti-Obama video. (I wonder if anyone told Chuck that using "darkness" to refer to the results of the presidency of a Person of Color might be construed as, I don't know, Something a Klan Member Would Say?)

Mark Edgemon wrote:Spam parody is a good type of writing exercise and is like extemporaneous speaking, a point made by my wife this morning.

Funny you should mention that. My (ex) wife used to make a point of speaking extemporaneously, too. I've heard that it's actually pretty common.

Mark Edgemon wrote:

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I think you guys ought to READ up on your subject matter - cause last I heard - the part in question was not located on the hip or buttocks.

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