Category Archives: Just For Fun

From the Department of Double Standards Department

A student at York University in Ontario called for a professor’s firing after he said, “‘All Jews should be sterilized’ would be an example of an unacceptable and dangerous opinion.” Her reasoning reportedly went like this: Grunfeld said Tuesday she may have misunderstood the context and intent of Johnston’s remarks, but that fact is insignificant.

“We Ought to Contemplate About Attempting This Myself”

Another in my occasional series of comical comment spam. This one came in overnight: You have some super musings! Maybe we ought to contemplate about attempting this myself. To which I might respond (if I were to respond), That’s exactly what we ought to contemplate. You go right ahead, yourself. And good luck to you.

How to Mistreat Your Money (Comment Spam)

Disabling comment captcha has had the unexpected benefit of giving me some good laughs. I’ve already posted some of the funnier comment spam, and I’m going to keep doing it from time to time. Even if it means twice in a row, like this time. This one falls under the heading of electronic translation gone

Hilarious Spam Comment

This comment was just left here on this blog from a website that sells term papers: After reading your post i have a better understanding of the Article. Your post have the information that is helpful and very informative. You know how to make your post understandable for most of the people. Oh, yeah, I’m

Love Those Spam Comments

A spammer whose website will remain unnamed—but which has something to do with phentermine (very important, I’m sure!)—left this comment here on Monday. I thought you’d enjoy it as much as I did. What I like best about it is that it actually makes sense, in an Internet-translation sort of way. But I need someone

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U.S. or Detroit

I just came through security on a flight home from Flint, Michigan. On the way out of the security zone I said thank you to the TSA agent, and told her I appreciated their work, adding, “It means something good about your work, that it’s been almost ten years since the last incident on a

Funniest Phishing Scam Yet

I needed a laugh this morning. I got one by way of an email supposedly from Cox, our family’s Internet provider, but with a “Reply-to” address of …@qatar.io. The body of the message reads: Attention, We are bringing to your notice that our customer service will be damaging down some email users in our database,

“Time Travel Conference « Bradley Monton’s Blog”

Bradley Monton writes: I’ll be speaking at this conference on time travel at North Carolina State on April 9; it should be enjoyable! I wanted to let him know I thought it was a great conference and I enjoyed it a lot.

“Maverick Philosopher: Dreaming and Waking”

William Vallicella wrote: When I wake up from a dream I realize I was dreaming; but when I go to sleep and dream there is no parallel recognition that I was awake. Serious philosophical juice can be squeezed from this observation. Some other time. [From Maverick Philosopher: Dreaming and Waking] He could have added (some