I Get Spam

Regular readers will know I occasionally dip into my spam filter and take a look at the comments that WordPress has prevented from posting on the site.

Most of them are generic “buy these pills” or “ladies want to meet you” type of things, but every now and then something makes me smile. Like so:

Every now and then I have thought about having a guest writer . . . but you’re clearly a bot so no, not going to extend the offer to you.

This was attempting to post on a Mash-Up . . . so a post which had nothing to do with a video. It’s almost like these bots don’t pay attention.

You’re right, completely off topic but it did make me smile – but was it your iPhone or your iPad?

Still, 83 views, eh? I hope your cousin’s happy.

Mash-Up #227 Power Girl vs Green Goblin

You can say what you like, the Green Goblin isn’t standing a chance against Power Girl, even if Mark Bagley’s art makes it look like she only has one leg.

Now That’s Some Prize!

Last week I took delivery of some 60s and 70s GREEN LANTERN issues – still trying to get a complete collection of that series though I’m now edging into the serious money section of my missing issues.

Anyway, while browsing through them I came across this ad:

Wow! The 60s were crazy, man! Like, really far out, you dig? You could totally win a

Like the ad says:

This was for real! You get to win a full size Gemini spacecraft!

Yeah, how’s it going to feel when you donate your prize to your city so that . . . wait, what?!

What a gip! You didn’t even get to keep it – you had to donate it to a city for a museum!

And one quick hunt on the internet seems to show that’s exactly what happened – a post from 2012 on this blog claims

a 13 year old from … Portland, Oregon won the prize.

and it ended up in the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, but if it’s still there, I can’t find a mention on the website.

But hey, at least a bunch of other kids got to enjoy it rather than it just sitting in some kid’s back yard until their parents got bored of it and sold it for scrap or something.

Mash-Up #226 Danger Girl and Domino

I’ll be honest – I don’t know a great deal about either of these characters but the guns, the costumes and the lighting all seemed to scream team-up to me so there you go.