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This<\/a> made me chuckle, over at waxy.org<\/a>. For the past year or so I’ve been battling spam in both comments and trackback entries on this website; usually it’s about poker or Viagra, but occasionally you get a strange gem such as the one referenced here.<\/p>\n

“Think of every yellow antelope you know – they do not match!”<\/p>\n

Who writes this stuff? Why?!<\/p><\/div>\n

This made me chuckle, over at waxy.org. For the past year or so I’ve been battling spam in both comments and trackback entries on this website; usually it’s about poker or Viagra, but occasionally you get a strange gem such as the one referenced here. “Think of every yellow antelope you know – they do […]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-web","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/09\/apology\/","url_meta":{"origin":129,"position":0},"title":"Apology","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"9 September 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the past couple of months I've been having to deal with an increase in the amount of blog spam I've been getting. 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