Category Archives: Just For Fun

Saturday Spam Fun

I’ve decided to make my “Fun With Spam Comments” a Saturday feature. I don’t get good ones every week, but when I do, I’ll compile them for the weekend. I promise you these are exact quotes. Punctuation criticism from a credible source: Although My partner and i honestly such as this submit, I believe there …

January 21, 2012 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun | Tagged , | Comments (0)

I’m Cow-fused

Okay, now I’m confused. A few days ago I wrote Listen! You’ll Hear It! (Reductionism Fails), with music as the main theme. Now I need someone to help me figure out how that works alongside this: Hat Tip: Swiss Miss via Makoto Fujimura

January 17, 2012 – 8:42 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun | Comments (3)

What’s That About a Rucksack?

Comment spam fun time again. This was fairly run-of-the-mill computer-translated gobbledygook, but something about the twist it took at the end made me laugh: Remorseful for your massive analysis, still I have to be actually nurturing the revolutionary Zune not to mention desire it, as well as the good critical reviews several other folks include …

January 12, 2012 – 2:04 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun | Tagged | Comments (0)

2011 Highlights

The Thinking Christian blog ends the year ranked at number 20 among religion blogs on the Internet, and number 73 among all blogs in the “Living” category, according to the premier ranking service Technorati. Those rankings bounce around a lot, based on who has linked here recently. Without your encouragement as readers, I never would …

December 31, 2011 – 8:15 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun, Miscellanea | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Comment Spam Poetry

Today in the comment spam quarantine I found this treat: I’ve discovered an exceptional will become even quicker as opposed to I did so your regular way. Maybe this is the kind of thing only a writer could love, but try reading it aloud. It has a rhythm to it. For best effect you need …

December 29, 2011 – 7:38 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun | Tagged | Comments (1)

Insight Into the World of Spam

This is a partially obscured screenshot from my comment-spam screen earlier this week. These two comments advertise two different commercial interests and were posted from two different IP addresses, both served from the same Seattle-based Internet Service Provider. Apparently they relied on two different computer-based translation tools. Otherwise the two comments obviously came from the …

December 15, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Spam Comment Fun

My latest spam comment here started out looking so encouraging, just what a Christian blogger hopes for most. I quote it exactly as it was written: Thank you for this valuable post. It changed my Thank you for this valuable post. It changed my policy Oh, well.

November 17, 2011 – 5:03 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun | Tagged | Comments (2)

“Moon Not Made of Cheese, Physicist Explains”

Not as trivial as you might think it is: “Don’t think that you fully understand the properties of lunar green cheese…. The answer is that it’s absurd to think the moon is made of green cheese. “And the formalization of that absurdity is that we are allowed to use other things we know about the …

October 21, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Calling All Physicists

There are a bunch of physicists and a few chemists who comment here. Do any of you want to respond this request? Short and sweet, it landed in my spam comments folder the other day, sent by someone who goes by the name “Foge”: Could you write about Physics so I can pass Scneice class? …

October 18, 2011 – 5:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun | Tagged | Comments (1)

Of Interest: Metaphysics and Football

If you like sports and if you’ve ever debated naturalism, you’re going to love how Alexander Pruss reached the conclusion that some people just can’t consistently talk football.

October 9, 2011 – 7:26 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun, New Atheism | Comments Off