There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people:

religion

politics

and the Great Pumpkin.

~ Linus Van Pelt

It's EHAG Emporium time, and what better time to look at pumpkins??

Your very own Great Pumpkins

on etsy

on eBay

Why? Because We Like You.

 

Now it's time...

To say goodbye...

To all our company.

  

M-I-C-

See you real soon.

K-E-Y.

Why?  Because we like you.

M-O-U-S-E.

Earrings/bracelet on etsy.

Spammity Spam, Spammity Spam

I refuse to put CAPTCHA on my blog.  CAPTCHA is that annoying array of letters and numbers which you must replicate to prove you're not a robot.  Apparently I am a robot because I can't decipher those things for the life of me.  Then, of course, you are offered the audio version... which sounds like the squealie noise my tires make on a slick underground garage floor.  

I don't use CAPTCHA because 1) I don't believe in torturing my readers and 2) I love getting comments and no one is going to leave a comment when they have to decipher something like this:

Oh, I've been getting comments.  Lots and LOTS of comments.

 

Some of them, Google sends straight to the spam folder.  And some linger.  So I thought, why not use them in ways as inappropriate as the messages themselves. They always leave links to their websites, which I will not share with you here.

I get the most spam messages on my blog post about Schnauzers, where I wrote a silly poem.

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or...

Its like you read my mind! You appear to know a lot about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. Useful link!

This, right after the last verse which reads:

If you want a dog who is frisky

And always stays out of your whiskey,

You might try a Schnauzer

'Cause he's no carouser

Unlike, say, a Basset, who's risky.

This next comment came after a blog post about A Week's Worth of Halloween Earrings:

Its like you read my mind! You appear to know a lot about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. My blog post latest celeb new..

This comment came after "A Pack of Penguins on a Nearly Worldess Wednesday," on a particularly spammy day:

Howdy, i read your blog from time to time and i own a similar one and i was just wondering if you get a lot of spam remarks? If so how do you stop it, any plugin or anything you can advise? I get so much lately it's driving me mad so any support is very much appreciated. 

Complete with website link, of course.

This comment came with "Beltane: Fertility, Frolic, and Fire."

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This one arrived following ""Those With Webby Wings That Fold Up," which is a poem by Frank Jacobs, the poet laureat of MAD Magazine:

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And here's a comment that accompanied "English Bull Terriers on an Atypically Wordless Wednesday. "

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This one was a response to "Blooming Saguaro Cactus on a Nearly Wordless Wednesday":

Today, I went to the beach with my children. I found a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter and said "You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear." She put the shell to her ear and screamed. There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear. She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is entirely off topic but I had to tell someone!  Feel free to surf to my homepage...

I was hoping we were on a roll, and the posts would continue to amuse, but alas, I was mistaken.

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This one came in response to "Famous Gray Cats in History."

 Or this one from "Bird Nests on a Nearly Wordless Wednesday":

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What better comment could there be for  A Kitty Piku for Pi Day?

I rarely comment, but after reading a few of the responses on this page "A Kitty Piku for Pi Day". I do have some questions for you if it's allright. Is it simply me or do a few of the comments come across like they are coming from brain dead individuals? :-P And, if you are posting on additional sites, I would like to keep up with everything new you have to post. Could you make a list of every one of all your social community sites like your twitter feed, Facebook page or linkedin profile? Here is my webpage buy a bucket truck...

Here's someone with very exclusive content:

With havin so much written content do you ever run into any problems of plagorism or copyright violation? My website has a lot of exclusive content I've either created myself or outsourced but it seems a lot of it is popping it up all over the web without my permission. Do you know any ways to help stop content from being ripped off? I'd really appreciate it. Feel free to surf to my page;

And finally a warm comment for My Mother's Chocolate Valentine:

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