Trouserpress

This original Trouserpress, alas, has pressed its last wrinkle. The PHP has gone delinquent on me, and rather than mend its ways, I have re-started the blog at a new address, and in snazzier form. I hope.

There are a few good posts on the old press and I leave them up.

If you are an avid and regular reader of Trouserpress (if there is such a person), you might want to consider bookmarking the new page or resetting the RSS because all future posts will appear there.

That new location again.

I just found this among the spam comments piling up in the back room here and I have to share it:

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A knee-pants bio, eh? Well, my knee pants are kind of old and have creosote stains and they were probably born in China or Indonesia. Is that bio enough?

Gotta love those spammers. They are getting more desperate or brazen. Today, among the usual deluge of offers of all kinds of porn, chemicals, credit I received under the grab line

I am really excited. Very useful. All the best!

adverts to buy compact refrigerators. Yes! Fridges! Well, I guess I need somewhere to keep all those pills I am buying, some place to cool off after ogling all that porn and a place to hide when the bailiffs come after me over the matter of unpaid loans — not to mention a place to keep my Spam.

If the compact fridge is not big enough for all that I can use it in conjunction with another product offered in the same gush of spam:

buy kitchen cabinets

buy kitchen cabinets

Yet another message offered me, and I quote:

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An offer I can’t refuse.

I believe that the only thing not offered in spam is Spam itself. But then with spelling like the last example, how would I know?