please empty your brain below

Oh dear! Was still chuckling at 'achieves' by the time I reached the end of your post!
DG, surely you mean "formely know as"
in the restaurant piece.
now I know why my polite request to read my short story got ignored... :)
Bravo,DG. Keep them at bay - we all appreciate your determination.
Coming straight after your 'sales' piece yesterday, I note.....

dg writes: Tut.
Jason and Josh,
Jessica, Joanne
Dean and Doug and Daisy
(and don't forget Cliff,
Who might be Jason getting a little lazy)

Jason and Josh,
Jessica, Joanne
Daisy and Dean and Doug
Can jump off a Cliff
They've wasted their time
'cause DG won't give them a plug
Never mind the red line under "achieves", why didn't Daisy's question mark have a green line under it?
Aah, bless their little cotton socks! I wonder what their general spam - success ratio actually is?

At least you get interesting spam. All I seem to get are those for male enhancers, nutritional supplements, and a ton of American-based crap to the tune of around 400 a day!
You know, at first I read "achieves" as "archives", and had to go back to find the incorrect word.

Does that mean I should be a marketer?
I wonder if "achieves" is just "yoof speak" for achievements so it almost makes sense to the Twitter generation who need to keep character count to a minimum!
I'm sorely tempted to send you a ridiculous marketing email in the hope that my prowess with marketing-speak would feature in a future post

or maybe not ....
People emailing that they have found broken links in sites seems to have got very common recently.

I was daft enough to reply the first couple of times. The broken links they give are not broken at all, but they then go on to suggest spammy sites they want you to add to your links page.
It could all be an informal competition to get their particular piece of spam mentioned in one of your blogs.
I totally understand your aversion to all the commercial bullpoo you receive, but I hope this does not extend to the odd suggestion from your loyal readership as to how you might follow up some of your blogs.
DG - has an out of the blue email ever interested you? Surely once somebody has contacted you with something of merit.
Several out-of-the-blue emails from readers have interested me. I wrote about one of them (first and last postcodes) last week.

But emails from PR folk with a service to sell or an event to plug, they never get followed-up.
Just curious. It's obvious that such emails never make it more likely that you will mention their event. I'm wondering if they actually make it less likely, in the sense that for an event you had already heard of some other way, and were considering attending and/or mentioning, whether you would decide not to attend or mention it specifically because of a spammy email which you later received about it.
@solar penguin: I suspect Daisy's question mark originally did have a green squiggle underneath, suggesting a change to the question mark because of the use of the word 'which'. (Open up MS Word, try it, and see...)
I bet you'd soon change your tune if I offered you some Merseyrail flip flops.










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