YSaC, Vol. 1345: Big Yellow Taxing
Here’s a headscratcher that was posted in “Rooms for Rent”:
LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…
LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT ME IF INTERESTED!!!
[address] 8am to ?? Baby items, toys, stroller clothes household
items lots of miscellaneous items[link to a roommate service]
Price is vital in products competing with each other on retail shelves, but delivery and reliability might be much more important for materials used by manufacturers in volume, for which a shortage can affect an entire production line.LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT… In the restaurant business, for example, competition might depend on reputation and trends in one part of the market, and on location and parking in another
Um – are you SURE it’s full of black ink? Looks like you ran out about halfway through, and all you had left was yellow. Now, dear readers, if you’re actually curious as to what the illegible yellow text says, you can make it easier to read by highlighting it with your mouse.
The problem is, while that improves the legibility, it doesn’t actually help it make any SENSE. But if you do end up buying whatever it is, I’ve got a table you can put it on. And then maybe you can open a restaurant. With a roommate. At a yard sale. With black ink. From 8 until ??
I think ?? about covers it.
Thanks, Ross!
How am I supposed to highlight the text with my mouse on my phone? Maybe I should use one of RW’s rats.
You are not missing so very much. Other than a ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!-style abuse of the color yellow.
Just for kelli –
You’re welcome to try, Kelli, but right now they’re asleep. And to be honest, they’re fairly unco-operative when they’re awake.
Full of ink, black and colored?
And a roommate locator service?
This sounds like a Lío comic strip–it’s a Squid orphanage rehoming scam!
I’m sorry, Sparky, but if your baby items, toys, stroller, clothes, and household items are full of ink of whatever color, then they’re not like new. Now, if they were filled with Spice Christ, colored and black, I might be interested.
I do not like green dregs and spam. Especially in baby items.
Awww… someone scared the baby squid.
:puts on festive party hat:
Deck the halls with lots of ink,
Fa-la-la-la, la la la la!
Black and yellow and even pink!
Fa-la-la-la, la la la la!
Don we now our baby items
Fa la la la la la… la la la
As we try to read the highlighted writings
Fa la la la…la la la la
O Sparkybot, O Sparkybot,
How crazy is your posting!
With yellow text and lack of sense
You’d sell it all for half a pence!
O Sparkybot, O Sparkybot,
How crazy is your posting!
I was going to do a song to “Paint it Black”, but my keyboard ran out of INK.
Black is black
I want my spectrum back
It’s gray, it’s gray
Since red went away, Ooh-Ooh
What can I do
‘Cause I-I-I-I-I’m feelin’ like Honey Boo Boo.
If I had my way
I’d clean the ashtray
But she don’t intend
To hit resend, Ooh-Ooh
What can I do
‘Cause I-I-I-I-I’m feelin’ like Honey Boo Boo.
Bad is bad
I love my tartan plaid
It’s time, it’s time
I used some yellow slime , Ooh-Ooh
What can I do
‘Cause I-I-I-I-I’m feelin’ like Honey Boo Boo.
Black is black
I want my rainbow back
It’s colored, it’s colored
Just like French’s mustard, Ooh-Ooh
What can I do
‘Cause I-I-I-I-I’m feelin’ like Honey Boo Boo.
‘Cause I-I-I-I-I’m feelin’ like Honey Boo Boo.
But… “rooms for rent”? So, the room is like new and filled with ink? How full are we talking, here? Because if the price is right, I might be able to deal with, say, an inch or so on the bottom, but full to the point of needing scuba gear? Maybe I’ll rent elsewhere.
Clearly, Dan posting this on Friday is designed to make sure the weekend drinking starts early.
I didn’t realize we needed an excuse..*hic*
I’ve had the blender warming up since 7am.
Well, there’s your problem right there.
You don’t need to warm up the blender (not even the 3HP ones).
What you want to do is the chill the glass part(s).
This is mo’ betta.
I’ve been swigging cough syrup all week. It doesn’t help much. Maybe I need to get the recipe for my grampa’s homemade version. I think moonshine whiskey features prominently, but I don’t remember the other ingredients.
I use one spoonful of honey mixed with one spoonful of whiskey, sipped slowly. It doesn’t always work, but after a couple of doses I don’t really care.
Nope, not falling for this again. The last time I bought colored lenses from Sparky’s Discount Contact Emporium, I ended up with two black eyes.
Could somebody corey me as to the purpose of nonsensical Craigsbot messages? I’m not getting who would respond to them or how they work. Color me curious/yellow.
I’ve always assumed that the scripts the spammers use to generate the word-salad ad copy are glitchy and the spammers either don’t care or aren’t familiar enough with English to know the difference.
Ah, in ‘regular’ phishing, you send out an email with an attachment or and embedded url link within it.
Even (some) sparkii can work out that “Do Not Click On The Attachment” really means just that.
With CL, you just leave the email link in place, then make an offer too good to be true (or just bizarre enough to reel in sparkii). They then click on the email link, which then passes a validated email address to the spammer.
Valid email addresses are worth money to spammers. So, a list of valid addresses is worth buying/selling.
While it is simple enough to just generate every IP possible and email them all, having a list of ‘good’ addresses cuts down on the overhead time.
Mechanism works like this.
You get some sawhorses, and some planks or plywood, or metal siding. Set 10-20 el cheapo–but working–computers (ever wonder who buys $25 386 or 486 computers?) on that surface. Load them with a dialer/addresser system that will then fire off 1 email per second, and press “Run.”
Repeat for each machine on your table.
86,400 seconds in a day.
Ten computers gets you 864,000 messages per day.
“Hit” rate is between 1 : 10,000 and 1 : 15,000–that will net you 50-60 “hits” per day.
For one table.
Start with a list of valid addresses (and probably gullible ones at that) your potential rate-of-return drops to 1 : 70-80.
Only 1440 minutes in a day, and your reel-them-in messages need closer to a minute each. But, that’s 18 per day.
The true limiting factor on spam at present is the less-reliable power/telco connections found where these operations run.
CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !!
CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !!
CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !!
CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !!
CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !!
CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !!
CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !!
All wOrk and no play; makes JacK’ a DuLl Boy
SJ, when next I’m sick, I want to bunk at your house. Honey and whiskey sound like a good remedy for lots of ills.
I know a duck, but not just any duck, this is the Demon Duck of Doom, DOOM!
I know a cat, but not just any cat, this is the ghostcat who snarks the room, ROOM!
Now this duck and this cat have been in the box all day, DAY!
If I let them out, they’ll snark and shout, so listen to what they say, SAY!
Punchity Punch Punch!
Good Morning, Mr. Roboto!
The thing’s hollow – it goes on forever, and MY GOD, IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK