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June 21, 2008
From the Mailbag
This is part of something that was in my e-mail today.
Dear delmer.com webmaster,
Your web site appears at the our top of the best sites by Ron Jeremy theme.Our web site www.WhatAppearsToBeAPornSite.xxx has the similar content and we would like to place a link to your web site in order to allow our visitors to enjoy your web site content as well.
If you find this offer useful for your business and are interested to keep the link for extended period of time, we would like to ask you to place receiprocal link to our web site on yours.
Ron, who I'm sure is a delightful man, needs to hire a better PR firm if my site is one of the best referencing him. (In all fairness to Mr. Jeremy, I'm guessing he's not affiliated with this promotion.)
So, visitors to that site would be treated to links for porn, porn, porn, then, boom, stories about me wearing my underwear for a week at a time. Oh, and, I guess, a shot of my backside, which is hardly porn-worth. (Hey! Would it have been too much for any of you folks commenting about my tushy to have tossed a "sweet" in there? I don't ask for much people.)
I ran this next one through Notepad to destroy all the links. It sort of destroyed the formatting as well.
Spanish is not one of the languages I barely speak and the only thing I recognize are my name and the reference to Alaska (both highlighted). The colors used in the original mailing were very festive and had a party feel to them.
Bem-vindo ao Habbo, delmer!
Usted tiene un asno dulce
Obrigado por registrar-se no Habbo.com.br e Habbo.pt.
Por favor ative sua conta clicando aqui.
Aqui estão seus detalhes de usuário:Nome Habbo: delmer
Nascimento: 30/05/1985
Guarde as informações acima com segurança - você precisa do nome de usuário e da data de nascimento para recuperar a senha no caso de perdê-la.
I suspect the part that says "you have a sweet ass" might translate correctly to "you have a sweet donkey," as I put that part in myself. I'm guessing, too, that this might have something to do with somebody wanting to use Delmer as a trademark or something in a Spanish-speaking country; I get a similar sort of spam from a dude claiming to be in Hong Kong and concerned about what a Chinese person might want to do with Delmer.
Technorati Tags: SPAM
Posted by delmer at June 21, 2008 9:37 AM
Comments
Are you sure this isn't a porn site? Then I was totally wrong about what a Delmer looks like.
Oh well, I'll keep coming back, just in case.
Posted by: Mad William at June 21, 2008 2:18 PM
The only thing that translated for me on that foreign stuff was "you have a sweet burro."
I kid you not.
Posted by: Ginger at June 21, 2008 5:09 PM
I ran the Spanish stuff through Google translate and got a garbled response, except: "You have a sweet ass".
Posted by: Michael at June 21, 2008 6:28 PM
Mad William: Sometimes, lately, it has been porn-site like. That will end as soon as my mom gets her computer hooked back up.
Ginger: Burro ... ass. It all makes sense.
Micheal: It's good to know Google appreciates me. (Though, I'm not really surprised.)
Posted by: delmer at June 22, 2008 12:19 AM
Geeez, what am I? Chopped liver?! (I love that expression even if I have no idea what it means). I said you had a sweet arse! You just ignored me, as you also ignored my sweet cleavage shots!
Are we even? ;o)
Posted by: Lady P at June 22, 2008 2:34 PM
Lady P: Firstly, you have used, "What am I? Chopped liver?!" correctly. Secondly, we don't know what an "arse" is over here.
Mostly, I just like to bitch a little.
:)
Posted by: delmer at June 22, 2008 4:11 PM