Flattery will get you nowhere!

Like all obscure bloggers (although my "pageviews all time history" number is 79,602 to date, I don't kid myself), I receive plenty of spam comments, none of which actually comment on the content of my blogposts, all of which serve their own purposes, advertising some other website. I routinely delete them unread, especially the ones written in Kanji or Cyrillic, but occasionally I'm amused by the computer-generated gibberish in the message that's been left, or the "comments" that have obviously been processed through Google Translate:

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