SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM!

I've long been aware that this site spams a few comments/replies which are far from obvious to explain why they've been spammed. As a result, I regularly check my spam folder to 'unspam' such comments/replies. I put the arbitrary nature of spamming here down to the site's algorithm. But things have got stranger today.

Today, I found four replies in my spam folder, all of them were comments/replies posted sometime ago. But none of them had appeared in my spam folder until today. After 'unspamming' them, I then went back to the blog posts from which they were spammed. I noticed that there were replies to my spammed replies. This suggests that site had spammed them well after they were posted. Strange!

Furthermore, three of the four replies were replies I had written. The site is seemingly spamming comments/replies posted by the blogger of the blog post. How can a comment/reply I submit on my blog be regarded as spam? Yet more strange!

Do you regularly check for spam on this site?
Do or did you like eating Spam meat?

Spam, a brand of canned and processed pork and ham, was introduced in 1937 and became popular to eat during the Second World War. The billionth can of Spam was sold in 1959, and the eight billionth can was sold in 2012.

Though I've eaten Spam, always frittered, as a child, I've always hated the meat and still do.

However, there are still aficionados of Spam throughout the world. From 1978 to 1987, Spamarama was an annual festival held in Austin, Texas. During the last week of April, an annual Spam Jam is held in Waikiki, Hawaii. In Shady Cove, Oregon, a Spam Parade and Festival is held every year.

There is the Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota. And 8th of August is the day of celebration in honour of Spam.

Spam has become part of popular culture. In particular, Spam was a sketch performed by Monty Python in 1970 and was also mentioned in a song in their Monty Python and the Holy Grail film released in 1975. And based on the film, the Spamalot stage musical was first performed in 2004.

In 1989, 'Weird Al' Yankovic released the song, Spam, as a parody of the R.E.M.'s Stand song released a year earlier.


Comments

  1. JNMay 7, 2024 at 2:39 PM

    Spam is popular among Pacific Islanders and even in Okinawa. It’s too salty for me so I won’t eat it, but there were always a few cans of it in the pantry when I was a kid.

    The way comments are marked as spam here runs on the same logic as the denied comments over on the other site. My HNW post just got denied 😐

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    1. Bow and Arrow ManMay 8, 2024 at 3:30 AM

      Comments seemingly arbitrarily spammed are equivalent to comments arbitrarily denied, though at least spammed comments can be retrieved.

      Delete
  2. JoyMay 8, 2024 at 12:44 AM

    I ate a lot of Spam growing up as a kid and did not mind it.My Mom would add in some mayonnaise and relish to it for sandwiches and would fry it also. As for Spam here on site I try to check mine daily. Not good that you found a lot of it in yours.

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    1. Bow and Arrow ManMay 8, 2024 at 3:31 AM

      I still can't understand why this site spams my replies on my blog.

      Delete
    2. JoyMay 9, 2024 at 12:23 AM

      It is strange that it does that as it should not be..

      Delete
  3. Debbi (Enigma)May 8, 2024 at 5:19 AM

    I get the odd one here and there that ends up in the spam, but not much. Nothing like what you're talking about. I probably check it once a week, more if I see a comment in my inbox but not on the post.

    I do not like spam, the canned meat. I've never liked it and I'll probably never like it. Generally speaking, mechanically separated meat makes me gag. I can't even eat bologna.

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    1. Debbi (Enigma)May 8, 2024 at 5:19 AM

      And, I forgot to click the notify me.

      Delete
    2. Bow and Arrow ManMay 8, 2024 at 6:24 AM

      Except for bacon and sausages, I'm not a big fan of processed meat.

      Delete
  4. smartyMay 8, 2024 at 7:01 AM

    My mom used to prepare it as sort of a fake ham - she would glaze it, stick cloves in it and bake it. I didn't know any better so I ate it, lol.

    As for spam here, only upon reading this post did I figure out that I could change the dropdown under comments to just show spam. There were two there, one was my own.

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    1. Bow and Arrow ManMay 8, 2024 at 7:11 AM

      It's quite odd how our comments on our own blogs get picked up as spam. I know I'm wordy sometimes but I hope I'm not spam-worthy!

      Delete
    2. Debbi (Enigma)May 8, 2024 at 9:59 AM

      After reading your comment, smarty, I went and filtered mine. What did I find? three spammed comments. One of which was mine.

      Delete
  5. Saul (OddsAgainst)May 8, 2024 at 12:38 PM

    I do not like spam nor Spam.

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