If your comment went AWOL within the last 12 hours
Bookworm on Nov 14 2008 at 8:39 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
As you all have noticed, sometimes the Askimet spam blocker eats your comments. What you may not know is that, for reasons that are entirely unclear to me, they can get channeled into two separate areas: comment moderation or spam. I check both routinely, and make sure to release from captivity any comments that aren’t spam. Last night, however, I was hit by a spammer that sent out more than 300 spams. Askimet caught them all and properly channeled them into its spam function. With so many of them, I did not first review them to make sure that one of your comments hadn’t mistakenly been fed into that trap.
What this means is that, if you posted a comment in the last 12 hours and it hasn’t shown up, assume that it got caught up in my last mass spam delete. Sorry.
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Bummer on being spammed BW.I’ve spent the last three hours updating three computers and a few upgrades and general cleaning of cookies and email and a few other things.This is my first post in a spell.
Say, Book, I wanted to tell you about a great new ground-floor opportunity.
You’re too young to remember the Royal Jelly craze of the 1950s, when a hormone made for honey bee queens came on the market as a restorer of youthful skin. Well, thanks to years of scientific research since, Royal Jelly not only restores skin, but also libido and ambition!
I can get you a Marin County Royal jelly franchise. It’s pretty simple: Just sign up some “junior partners” and take a percentage of their sales — pretty soon you’ll be sitting pretty!
Also, did I tell you about my acreage near Victorville in the Southland? I own 6.6 acres of prime “high country” at the west end of the Mojave Desert, a spectacular ecology that the Sierra Club says “looks a lot like what most of America will look like by 2050, thanks to George Bush and his ineradicable legacy.”
So, why not be in the avant garde, Book? Water and power hookups are now within a 5-minute driving distance of the property, which also has glorious sunsets and a spot-on view — if you’re train buff — of gigantic 8- and 10-engine Union Pacific trains in the marshalling yard just beyond the property.
Let me know if you’d like “in!” My number is 555-621-8437.
Chuck
>>and a spot-on view — if you’re train buff — of gigantic 8- and 10-engine Union Pacific trains in the marshalling yard just beyond the property.>>
Heh. I doubt this. Not much in the way of train tracks of any kind on that side of the mountains. On the other side, though, a different story. One of the fascinating stories is one about the climb from Bakersfield to Tehachapi…it has some amazing number of switchbacks due to the steepness of the grade. I’ll see if I can find a link.
http://www.tehachapirails.com/
There’s another grade(Portrero Rd) that comes down from Thousand Oaks to the Oxnard Plain…it was the original road used by the stagecoaches to come out of the Malibu mountains before the 101 highway was built in any form. Tell you what…stand at the top of the grade and think about a stagecoach going down that grade…it’ll give you nightmares! Although from a fact standpoint, I don’t know if the passengers got out and walked, but I’ll tell you for sure that had I been one of them, I sure as heck would have! And I’ll bet they made the passengers walk up the mountain as well!
Hey, suek, you know your stuff!
I shoulda said Tehachapi, but when I’m BSing Book, who cares about facts? (I’m a leftist that way.)
I remember the last time I was in Tehachapi. I stopped at a Burger King or Jack in the Box right across the highway from where the big engines were idling. I love that stuff — the smell, the sound, the look and the sheer horsepower of those bad boy diesels.
Thanks for the link.
Love the train site. I’ll have to log on to that site. Also give everyone here my blog address so you can see where I live here in CNY. Chuck you shouldn’t put your personal info so everyone can see it.Just a safety precaution so as to not get spammed as happened to BW.
Mike
http://www.miketrani dot com slash blog slash gallery. If it’s done this way spiders and crawlers can’t get to you.I need to put more pictures on that gallery.I’ll get to it this weekend. I hope.
Ehhhh … Mike?
555 numbers usually aren’t good numbers for personal numbers. They’re usually sort of a “reverse the charge” type numbers, if I recall correctly. Or something like that. For example…1-800-555-1212 is information for all the 800 numbers. And I think some of the “if you want your personal horoscope read” numbers used to be 555…or was it 998…something like that. There’s one of those prefixes that you pay for by the minute. In other words, that’s a fake number..!
Charles…my FIL was a train buff. We also had a board game that was about the various train routes that you bought, sold and traded. Sort of a Monopoly of the railroad companies and routes. There’s a big “hole” in the basin north of LA. But that Bakersfield-Tehachapi route is unique…hard to forget!
555+ anything routes you to directory assistance aka “information.” If you pay attention you will note that telephone numbers in movies/TV etc since about 1975 all begin with 555. This is because every time a TV show included a phone number, loonies would flood the phone lines dialing the number in the show. And the person who had the number featured in the show would be unhappy.
Sue is correct 800+555 routes you to 800 “information.”
All those pay by the minute — horoscopes, sports, lottery — are mostly 900 numbers.
Please deposit 25 cents.
>>We also had a board game that was about the various train routes that you bought, sold and traded.>>
Finally remembered the name…”Railroad Baron”. Then of course, I had to look for it…but couldn’t find it. I may have given it to one of the kids for their family. It seems to have disappeared, in any case. So naturally, then I had to look online for it…
Didn’t find it here, but you might find these interesting:
http://www.wargamersheadquarters.com/category/railroad-games/?gclid=CPeVoNrn95YCFQQCagoduHZlXw
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/293443
Did find it here. First link is the general link, second is specific to the game.
http://www.insystem.com/rbp/
http://www.railgamefans.com/rbp/rbgame.htm
Then – since that general link had an ebay link, I _had_ to check it out!
Holey Moley!!! I think I better check out the attic for that old game!!
http://shop.ebay.com/items/_W0QQ_nkwZrailQ20baronQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZ
Heh. Just did a comment with many links…too many, apparently. It’s in moderation…
“Please release me …Let me go…!!!”