Having had the word verification turned on for so long, I'd actually kinda missed the 'bot-generated word salad they use to try and spoof their way past the Turing screens in the spam filter. Check out this fragment of Vogon poetry I dug out of the spam comment trap this morning:
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I'm envisioning tanks of Cylon Hybrids in Shanghai, murmuring endlessly...
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I'm alternately amused and annoyed at them. When your spam comments outnumber the legitimate ones, it gets a little bit depressing, no matter how weirdly worded they are...
I was reading that kind of amused that I was actually making some sense out of it.
Then I got to the Cylon Hybrid reference... and LOL'd. Right out loud. Envisioned Gaius trying to talk to it.
Jump!
It almost makes me sad to realize that when we do get the first sentient AI, rather than Skynet, or Deep Thought, we'll end up with a spambot that will unceasingly spout off garbage, hawking everything from sunglasses to nonstick cookware to snuggies for the cat.
In true Vogon form, its first statement of sentience will be, "I spam, there for I am. Hurry, limited offer, $1.50 a can. Also, free male enhancement pills. Jessica has seen your Myspace profile, and wants to meet sexy singles in your area because you have the top-rated Youtube video, and won the Nigerian Lottery with a winning number of the Pepsico/Chevrolet/MSNBC awards program, and the prize is a cheap!! Rolex copy along with Canadian pharmacy VISA debit card."
Actually, I think I'd prefer Skynet...
Shrimp,
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I respect "the time-honored tricks of the calling" and will not criticize them, for compared with Nigerian scam emails these computer generated solicitations contain some great language. Buried in a ton of crap, of course.
Incidentally, without the word verification here, naming the characters in my next fantasy novel will be a real chore.
How did the transcript of a staff meeting make it to your spam folder?
JUMP!!!!
gvi
Thinking, "her comments are better than my blog..."
Vogon poetry is better than half the stuff by e.e.cummings
I'm reminded of 1960s Japanese bike owners manuals...
...all your verbiage are belong to us..?
Shanghai Hybrids and Vogons be hanged. That stuff is the verbal equivalent of the aftereffects of a dog eating chocolate, no more.
If you want true abuse of the English language, you must find it from an English speaker.
http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/
gvi
Jabberwocky, Turing Tests, Vogon poetry, AND Cylon hybrids... the geek cred, it burns us...
Yup, I'm in the right place ;p
wait wait, can we go back to that part about the cat snuggies??
Heh.
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