Spambot of the day
I bask in the heartfelt praise:
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Cormac McCarthy wrote that.
Just read my first Comrac MCarthy novel – Child of God. Trippy.
Sounds like a sincere post from Kamala.
I haven’t read the word “thrice” in a sentence since Jesus’ warning to Peter about his denials.
Kamala being a bit terse, I would say.
Mike Plaiss:
Read Blood Meridian and the three novels of The Border Trilogy (All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain).
Masterpieces all.
(Full disclosure: I corresponded with Cormac McCarthy, back when he was writing the trilogy.)
Enthusiastic praise indeed! Did it come with a link perchance?
Jerry:
If you are replying to my post (not sure): our correspondence was private. We exchanged letters. The old fashioned way, handwritten, via U.S. Mail.
One cannot really argue with that.
I think you once told us, Neo, your thinking on why spammers send such ridiculous messages, but I forgot what you said. What’s the point?
AI has got a ways to go.
Must be an AI spam entity.
No human today uses words like these, expecially “thrice”
John Guilfoyle, see II Henry IV Act V, sc. v, line 54!
Furthermore, Orthodox people sing the Thrice-Holy hymn (Trisagion) every Divine Liturgy. The term also plays a role in the Cherubic Hymn.
I love ‘thrice’ – ‘thrice’ is twice as nice as rice. 🙂
And Edward, I use ‘consequently’ at least a couple of times per month. It’s very useful at work. 🙂 Of necessity, I juggle a variety of permutations: ‘hence,’ ‘thus,’ ‘therefore,’ ‘consequently,’ that sort of thing.
I never liked Mitt Romney–never felt that he was straight, or terribly honest. His new book makes it very clear that he will say anything to destroy Trump. Here is the review from The Atlantic. Read it and weep:
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/09/mitt-romney-retirement-senate-constitution/675327/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20230914&utm_term=The+Atlantic+Daily
You know you have an erudite readership when they use “thrice” in their comments.
brimming with a thrilling time is a comically oddball locution. It’s the sort of thing that can only be produced either a non native english speaker using a direct translation, a poorly trained and tuned LLM, or the mind of a madman. Such wacky phrases are fantastic as the title for an album or an autobiography.
Very cool IrishOtter49, and you’re the second to recommend Blood Meridian, so that will be up next.
Without Googling, does anyone know if the word “thrice” comes up in the Holy Hand Grenade instructions? That was the first thing I thought of.
Mike Plaiss:
Brace yourself. Blood Meridian is ferocious.
Blood Meridian is widely considered to be one of (if not the) grimmest, bloodiest, darkest novels of modern American literature for good reason.
A commentary on our times, and on a lot of the grotesque crap which passes for “fashion” these days.
I happen to think that this is hilarious, as a guy, a pretty chunky prankster, managed to get in, and to walk the runway during prestigious New York Fashion Week.
His outfit?
A trash bag and a shower cap.
The viewers on the sidelines apparently thought that this was just “fashion,” and didn’t apparently catch on but, partway down the runway, security, which had caught on, chased and caught him, and removed him from the runway.*
* See the video at https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/09/13/prankster-crashes-new-york-fashion-week-wearing-trash-bag-only-security-noticed/