Meanwhile, there is red sauce with meat that needs to be cooked. And it needs another ten cloves of garlic.

Looking at the 'Previous Comments' list, I was wondering WTF was up with Benjamin Wolfe; happy to see this explanation, as opposed to 'soul possession'.

"Victor? What are you doing down there?"

I hope no one walks in on you! That would be soooo embarrassing.

I must confess that I did not look that quote up; I remembered it from many years ago. I am a nerd.

I never thought I'd be disappointed not to see spam.

If it were not for this sneaky spammer, Jim would not have posted a post about the suitability of emus.

If Jim had not penned his words, I would not have used the excellent Google invention to search Making Light.

If it wasn't for the diligence and speed of the members of the Fluorosphere, I would not have ended up on page ten of Google's instantly returned results.

Without this unlikely chain of events, I would never have come across this delightful post on 'That Topic' and my day would have been much poorer for it.

Maybe not as much fun, but couldn't you have posted a placeholder comment to make the ghost spam disappear, then deleted the placeholder comment?

Besides, we have things in the archives that should be revived.

Could my comment be released from durance vile? It is innocent I assure you.

Thanks!

Your earlier comment shows up in the back-end lists of approved comments for this thread. It falls between "#27 ::: siriosa ::: (view all by) ::: July 20, 2011, 03:20 AM:" and "#28 ::: Rob Rusick ::: (view all by) ::: July 20, 2011, 11:11 AM:"

But it doesn't appear to the world.

I don't know what's up with that.

While I'm asking about things which apparently ought to be obvious, I googled the quote from #6 and all that came up was this post. So maybe someone could explain that too.

And I told you not to call me that, Mycroft W!

About that topic, the least said the better.

As to the quote, it's from a short story by Eric Frank Russell ("Top Secret") involving a super-secure communication system that, unfortunately, created garbles. The phrase "Will emus do?" when transmitted and received, became "Will amuse you."

In case it's another quiet day at work tomorrow, does anyone have more Greatest Hits of the Flourosphere suggestions?

Let's raid that back catalogue, people!

Anyroad, it's all about the conversation. You want warnings? James Earl Ray and Robert Fletcher. You want emergency preparedness? We got it here from James MacDonald. I mean, I could go on, but let me stop with saying: there's very little here that's not potentially interesting.

Do you write poetry?

(Funny how, when reading disemvowelled text, it seems less natural to put a vowel *before* the remaining consonants than between or after them.)

--Dave, bloody vikings

Coming back to this planet now.

If your against brtn,
then don't have one.

Oops. You are invited to disemvowel my @50, if that would be appropriate.

Fvzvyneyl:

Vs lbh bccbfr fynirel,
Qba'g bja bar

The nswrs yh spammer's taint is gone.

Joseph @49 thanks for the link.

Perhaps an 'Entertain Me!' random post link could be added to the front page?

... nah, just ain't working, and you'd gotten them all before I read the thread. But Yahoo! They're gone.

Having just gotten to the bit about the bread mix in "Rule 34", I got a shiver when I read comment #58 in that thread. It's really true! Everything is connected!