Akismet Fails
Lately I have received several hilarious comments on the entry about Chip waddling on the floor. They were mixed in with my regular comments as awaiting moderation rather than spam, and they were just… wow. Off the top of my head, some were like this:
This is great and all, but what does this have to do with pointy forks in China?
I understand your opinion, but I don’t agree with it. I think it will take more time for me to ease into that view, but I’ll tolerate you for now.
Great review! Next time focus on something more awesome, like Transformers.
These are just what I remember and aren’t direct quotes, because I deleted them after the 20 minutes or so I spent laughing at them. I mean, really? Luckily, Akismet came out with an update today, so it should do its job better. Or at least, I hope so!
Otherwise, I’m on a major job hunt like woah. Also, this is the beginning of my college preparations here. I have my eye on a private university and, as I constantly pester friends about it, I feel like I have a good chance of getting in. Still intimidating as hell, but we’ll see. I have to make a portfolio and everything, so this should be interesting.
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I get the same spam as you! And for some reason none of my plugins have showed up in my admin cp since I upgraded to 2.6.1 
Aaaaanyways!
I am so happy about your job/schoolery! (say it fast and it sounds like tomfoolery — which is a most excellent word) If I can do anything else at all to help just ask me! For all the help you give me and just because I love you I’ll help with anything!
Sabrina: Aww, WALL-E sounds really cute. I haven’t seen it yet (let alone stepped inside a movie theater in the past two years XD), but I’ve heard a lot of really great things about it. And thanks for the vote of confidence! I really hope that I get in, but the deadline is three months away and I still have so much to prepare for. As for the job hunt - I’ve never actually had a job before and the last time I applied I was very nervous. This time I’m not so much so because I whipped up a nice resumé that hopefully makes me look good to people that are hiring, but I still fear interviews like woah. All this for a cashier job, sheesh.
Kae: AHAHA, that’s hilarious. When I first started getting it I wasn’t sure if they were really spam or not. Ultimately I decided that pointy forks were not related to the topic and therefore made it spam, but really, when did spam get better at disguising itself? What happened to “Britney Spears and Ashley Simpson beat Paris Hilton within inch of her life” or the male enhancement ads? Let’s not forget the ones with random strings of letters… :P
Anyway, thanks a bunch dear. You’ve already helped me so much already with my resumé, but I’ll probably be harassing you about looking my portfolio and entrance application over. I still can’t decide between “why do you want to attend school here” (I have the “this school offers everything I want to get out of a college experience” handle) and “why are you interested in the fields you wish to study” (I have the “I’ve been doing this since I was 13″ handle). I’ll probably also harass you about looking scholarships over for me, since I’d feel more confident if other people looked over my work for errors, passive voice, poor sentence structure and other things that I might not have spotted. ♥
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LOL on the pointy forks! It reminded me of the part on WALL-E where he finds a spork and doesn’t know where to put it: with the forks or the spoons. I’m sure you’ll get in to your university of choice!
And good luck with the job hunt, I’m waiting on a response and it’s really nerve-wracking!