Bloodless Coup

It's the spam...

The comment spam keeps on coming. And there is still the glut of "midget porn," "dirty sluts" and "anal anal anal," there has been a huge burst of a new kind of spam, the "Hi! Nice site!" and "great work, admin!" and "keep it up!" It carries the usual links, but behind chirpy messages.

And it reminds me of a joke, told by my friend Dan:

A guy goes into a bar one afternoon, sits at the far end, and orders a beer. After serving the beer and putting a bowl of peanuts in front of the guy, the bartender turns to polishing glasses at the opposite end of the bar.

The guy sits, drinking, and hears: "Nice pants!"

He looks around, seeing no one in the bar, and the bartender far away.

A couple of minutes later he hears "Great haircut!" and looks around again. No one.

"Good looking shirt!"

At this point, he's wondering if the bartender is a ventriloquist, so he says, "hey, bartender? are you saying things to me about how I look?"

And the bartender says, "No sir, it's the peanuts. They're complimentary."

Ba dum bum ching!