69 thoughts on “spam egg spam spam bacon and spam”

1. I’ve started putting the email address of people who spam into those forwards that ask for the email address of 5 friends so your friend can get some referral points. That way my friend is happy and I don’t lose any other friends by passing on that crap.

2. Please, somebody tell me what I can do about MSM. I’m not being sarcastic; I want to know what I can do other than feel helpless and trapped in a red state with people who think they’re so right and everything they believe is based on social myth.

3. As a Canadian, this whole “Damn you, Liberal!” “Screw you, Conservative!” battle y’all have going on is one hell of a scary fight.
   There’s so much hatred and division in your country right now that the rest of us in North America are watching you with utter horror.
   I don’t understand how the divide got so great and how the fight got so bitter…
   …but I sure as hell hope it ends soon.
   I know that it won’t, though, and that’s bloody sad.
   As for SPAM? I don’t get much of it.
   I do wonder how it came to be called SPAM, though. The food product SPAM is favoured by formerly cannibalistic South Pacific tribes for its highly-porky reminiscent-of-human-flesh taste, so I’m wondering how an unwanted email campaign was named for, well, porky wanna-be man-food.
   It’s all very strange. I hope they don’t find me anytime soon.
   thelastditch.blogspot.com

4. all I have to say is, if you can’t beat ’em join ’em. Become another Noam Chomsky (of some sort that fits your skill set). It seems that writing of any kind, perhaps acting for those who do not do it for the $ but for art or a labor of love, and/or publishing in the same category as established in class tonight, do not make any money except for “The Man”, (aka Hollywood, Paramount). So the media works the same way, publish stories that sell, not “there was not enough evidence for the war in Iraq in the first place. This war, then said, is that which is sapping our economic viability, making it look very unlikely that any college student will find a full-time job this summer unless they have a bachelor’s already and even then its still painful”
   So I say what I tell people when they freak out at things, what are you not doing? or do the exact opposite. I just applied at Current TV…. (crossing fingers)
   Get in the media somehow as an anchor, or someone who somehow has money, power, influence. (which you somewhat have). Use it or loose it.
   I watch E! for the Michael Jackson trial, which is bemusing but Yahoo’s latest article is disturbing – oh wait, we have stuff going on in the world other than him.. and Martha Stewart, and who knows what other banal things they come up with (yes I swear more on MY blog which requires a Live Journal account, haha)
   So I ask prey tell, what time are BBC broadcasts on PBS? I don’t know them locally, it’d be nice to have a link, and get away from the evil of Fox News, CNN, etc.,

5. scribecalledsteff:
   If they have ‘Days of Our Lives’ and ‘Next Generation’ I might consider moving to Canada. Hell, I’m in Washington State, I’m almost in Canada now. I agree, USA is greatly divided and becoming a scary place to live.
   shewhobeatsass
   Jack and Wesley were my high school loves… but I loved Gordie LaChance when I was in Jr High. In 9th Grade, when we went to ASB retreat, we listed to the Stand By Me soundtrack over and over and over again. It was a great time.
   I was so happy when Wil showed up on Next Gen. That helped me get thru my high school years.
   LOVE YA WIL!!!
   🙂 Kel

6. You know, spam’s popular in hawaii. Must really clog up their email servers. I have my own servers, and it’s really a pain in the neck.
   (I’ll refrain from making star trek jokes)

7. OMG. Crazy story!!! My husband’s relatives own (and run) some sugar woods. Nice country folks, overall. They were all over the news, but I missed it. Well, imagine this was you: you’re walking in the woods, on your property. Walking in your backyard, basically. You walk along a trail that (for as far as you know) is basically not used by anyone but you. And you come across …. A BODY !!!!! An actual deceased human corpse. Ok, so deceased corpse is a bit redundant, but I’m going for impact here, people !!! haha It’s like a scene from one of my fave movies or something!! “Stand by Me” eat your heart out, man!!! (Sorry Wil, love ya and loved that movie, but……… This one is close to home and IRL! It can’t compare!) Basically the same concept as the movie, only instead of young boys: it was an old country couple who made the discovery. And I am not from L.A. or anything so maybe to you guys it’s a regular occurrence. I don’t know. (I would hope not, really!!!) But from where I’m from? Finding bodies laying around it NOT a common thing…. lol 😉
   Anyhoo, though a part of me was horrified by the news, I was a bit jealous by the whole thing, really. Not that I really WANT to see a dead body (I’m not perverse or anything – in fact I had nightmares about it all night… *sigh* I’m a wuss, deep down, I think!) but I am a little curious as to what my reaction would be to the whole ordeal. I am really creeped out by bodies at funeral homes, only cause they are so dolled-up that they seem like creepy life-sized dolls. I’m sure the poor girl whose body they found did NOT look like a doll at this point. God only knows how long it had been there…. So I’m not sure what my reaction would have been. I think I probably would have cried for her. Or maybe have been sick. Who knows.
   The investigation is underway to find out who she is and how she died. I guess it’s just a waiting game to hear about it, now. HAD TO SHARE THIS ONE !!!

8. WIL
   I just had a strange feeling, that i had to do that :/ 😀
   Days of our lives….Here they just live that time, when somebody had murdered Colin Murphy. :/

9. where is my hearts :'(

10. techhunter
    Ok so what other proof did you folks have that Bush missed any meaningful amount of his stint in The Texas Air National Guard?
    Anything?
    I am actually surpised you librals are still acting like you care if Bush did or did not serve all of his commitment.
    A little slow on the uptake there Kevin?
    Did you even see Dan Rather’s report? Did you realy even read my posts? The issue I am reiterating here and the focus Rather’s investigation was that at the time Senator Bush Sr., got Bush Jr. the cush Air National Guard duty because of his influence. The core issue was not about whether or not Jr. missed “…any meaningful amount of his stint in The Texas Air National Guard…”
    Are we clear yet?
    Kevin, you’re not cut out for debate, nor discussion for that matter if your refuse to comprehend the issue here. You’re diversion into side issues are exactly the tactics that mislead and deceive the electorate in this country.
    Read the posts again and learn to think for yourself Kevin. I appreciate your passion, but if you want to put your energy into being a pundit I hope you are able take a deeper look at what’s going on with the oligarchy in this country and not just tow the party line blindly.
    Good luck to you.

11. Stacey who said: “Please, somebody tell me what I can do about MSM. I’m not being sarcastic; I want to know what I can do other than feel helpless and trapped in a red state with people who think they’re so right and everything they believe is based on social myth.”
    Stop supporting the MSM and start giving your time (and if you can money) to the “alternative media.” THE NATION. MOTHER JONES. HARPERS. GREG PALAST. SY HERSH. TRUTHOUT.ORG BUZZFLASH.COM RAWSTORY.COM Center for American Progress. IndyMedia. AirAmerica. You pick em. Get your hands on a semblance of the “truth” rather than the re-packaged press releases and talking points that the MSM delivers.
    And don’t forget, that even the MOST “red” state is really just a red shade of purple. There are “True Blue Liberals” in all 50 states (even Utah and Idaho). Even by their crooked count, they only won the country by 2%, and in reality, they probably lost it by 3%. YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!
    Don’t worry too much about trying to “convince” the really arrogant “reds” around you of the truth — you can’t. Their ears are shut to any facts that might shatter their deeply held belief system. You can talk to them about vote fraud and show them massive evidence of it from 2000 or 2004 and they will ignore it. You can show them independent news reports of abuse and torture and they will repeat talking points of “a few bad apples”. You can try to read them the Constitution or the Bill of Rights (without telling them what it is, and paraphrasing to modern language) and they will tell you to “get that Communist propaganda away from me.”
    Just keep yourself sane and wait.
    The Days of Decision are coming.
    We are frogs begin slow-cooked, and by the time we realize the water is boiling, we won’t have the strength to jump out of the pot. Perhaps we already don’t.
    Charlie L
    Portland, Oregon
    [email protected]
    Republicans lie and innocent people die.
    Republicans steal and give to their rich friends, leaving just an IOU for our kids to pay off.
    Republicans cheat and think they are “moral.”
    We must flush away all Republicans in ’06 and ’08.
    Stacey who said: “Please, somebody tell me what I can do about MSM. I’m not being sarcastic; I want to know what I can do other than feel helpless and trapped in a red state with people who think they’re so right and everything they believe is based on social myth.”
    Stop supporting the MSM and start giving your time (and if you can money) to the “alternative media.” THE NATION. MOTHER JONES. HARPERS. GREG PALAST. SY HERSH. TRUTHOUT.ORG BUZZFLASH.COM RAWSTORY.COM Center for American Progress. IndyMedia. AirAmerica. You pick em. Get your hands on a semblance of the “truth” rather than the re-packaged press releases and talking points that the MSM delivers.
    And don’t forget, that even the MOST “red” state is really just a red shade of purple. There are “True Blue Liberals” in all 50 states (even Utah and Idaho). Even by their crooked count, they only won the country by 2%, and in reality, they probably lost it by 3%. YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!
    Don’t worry too much about trying to “convince” the really arrogant “reds” around you of the truth — you can’t. Their ears are shut to any facts that might shatter their deeply held belief system. You can talk to them about vote fraud and show them massive evidence of it from 2000 or 2004 and they will ignore it. You can show them independent news reports of abuse and torture and they will repeat talking points of “a few bad apples”. You can try to read them the Constitution or the Bill of Rights (without telling them what it is, and paraphrasing to modern language) and they will tell you to “get that Communist propaganda away from me.”
    Just keep yourself sane and wait.
    The Days of Decision are coming.
    We are frogs begin slow-cooked, and by the time we realize the water is boiling, we won’t have the strength to jump out of the pot. Perhaps we already don’t.
    Charlie L
    Portland, Oregon
    [email protected]
    Republicans lie and innocent people die.
    Republicans steal and give to their rich friends, leaving just an IOU for our kids to pay off.
    Republicans cheat and think they are “moral.”
    We must flush away all Republicans in ’06 and ’08.
    P.S. Just in case you have any doubt about how these people think, here’s a classic example:
    http://mediamatters.org/items/200505180008
    Any of you supposed “moderate Republicans” (an oxymoron equivalent to “sane psychotic”) are welcome to immediately denounce Mr. Beck and demand of Clear Channel that he be taken off the air for his “hate speech.” But, somehow, I don’t think you will. For some reason, it’s only “hate speech” when a liberal does it.

12. Sorry for the duplication in the post. Not sure what happened there.
    I guess the truth twice is better than not at all. Wil, if you wish/can, please feel free to edit.
    Charlie

13. The thing about spamming and the like seems to be counterproductive to good business. I tried two jobs that involved some form of telemarketing. I will say that I didn’t last very long at either one of them. But that’s beside the point. I would figure that in order to be a good business one asset would be some respect in the community. Whether that community was a neighborhood or the United States. And telephone solicitation, spam and door to door, etc. more often than not causes the community to look upon the individuals performing the tasks and the company unfavorably because they are intrusive. You would think that there has to be a better way to make yourself known and sell your product, but people seem to rely on this method because the better methods are not obvious. Sadly, many of the workers that do this are pawns in this game too. Sometimes they take these jobs because there are no other offers on the table at the time.

14. I do wonder how it came to be called SPAM, though.
    I’m not completely sure this is true and not a post hoc fabrication, but the usual explanation is that the term “spam” as used for unwanted e-mail messages came from a Monty Python skit involving a restaurant in which every item on the menu inevitably included lots of spam whether the customer wanted it or not, and in which a group of Vikings kept interrupting the proceedings with a song about spam. (This page contains links to the skit’s script, a RealVideo audio file of the skit, and a smaller audio file of just the spam song.)
    For a more detailed analysis of the history of the term, see this page.

15. The other eptimology of SPAM for Unsolicited Communications I have heard refers to what happens when you put a lump of SPAM into a blender and hit the PUREE button without putting the top back on. You get a thin and vile (and unexpected or requested) layer of SPAM over everything within 5 feet.
    BTW, many believe the birth of SPAM was the “Greencard Lawyers” (Canter & Siegel) doing a massive cross-posting of an “off-topic” (except, perhaps for rec.arts.communications.pathetic) and “content-free” advertisement on the usenet some time in the early 1994. They might not have been the first to cross-post (accepted, but only in limited fashion, not to all 6000 groups) a commercial message (generally not appreciated at usenet in those days), but they were definitely the most infamous.
    BTW, in 1991, the The Hacker’s Dictionary defined Spam as “To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data.” You can see how throwing a massive amount of message at a system to fall into a variant of that definition. Does’t explain why the Hacker’s or MUDers chose to call it that, of course.
    Charlie L
    Portland, Oregon
    [email protected]
    The Republicans in power have lied and innocent people died.
    The Republicans in power have stolen and given to their rich friends, leaving just an IOU for our kids to pay off.
    The Republicans in power have cheated and claim they are the “moral” ones.
    We must flush all Republicans out of power in ’06 and ’08.
    Take back American Democracy. Don’t vote Republican.

16. Hey there!
    Really liked the intro to your site. This is my first time here and I’ll be back. You’re a very good writer! (that was my first surprise/unexpected thing) and quite funny. I’m right on the same track with your politics (very, VERY nice second surprise).
    I’m a thirty something, work-from-home mom, second gen sci-fi fan (my mom got to drive Gene Rodenberry back to his hotel room once from a Houston con in the mid ’70’s because her fellow trekkies felt sorry for her that she was going to miss the convention because it was on the same weekend as my birthday party! It was a hard choice for her, but the sacrifices parents make for our kids

17. kelsquatch: did you know that they’re bringing back Frankie Brady? *prepares herself for some serious drama*
    indigo: i know who did it.
    speaking of spam and such (again), i got one of those “claim yer money” ones…i’m starting to get slightly pissed off. why are these people allowed to do this and how the HELL are they getting my email address? anyone have any idea on that one?

18. Amen! I think it’s very important to take the time and respond to companies who do stupid shit like this and let them know what a turn off it is. Sure, it’s easier to just delete the message, but easier usually get things done. Good for you.

19. Once Again Wil Weaton goes to the Weenie-Liberal Bag O tricks instead of addressing the legitimate points I have raised. When are you raging leftists going to realize that you can not win elections and the hearts and minds of Americans unless you are willing to give answers to the questions posed by your critics. I realize you are not running for public office, but this habit is one Dem pols are also guilty of. For instance: We still do not have the complete unabridged military record of John Kerry. He wanted us to elect him President yet he was unwilling to level with us.
    Wil, I like you man. You are a very excellent writer and you are also very witty. But you need to wise up man. The days of simply pulling the wool over the eyes of America and rigging elections so Dems can win anyway are over. You need to kick up the dialogue. You as an important member of your party can lead the charge if you really want to!
    Kevin D. Korenthal
    SoCalPundit.com

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