Friday, November 18, 2005

When Your Spammers Suggest You Shouldn't Blog....

Recently recieved (and deleted) spam (emphasis added, links removed):
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Dressed in a flowing black robe that seems to float off his body rather than hang, Mr ... Last July, "Bloggers Need Not Apply," an essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education about an anonymous Midwestern college's attempt to fill a position, laid out the perils for academic job-seekers who blog.
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The image of "Ivan Tribble" in a floating, flowing black robe, suggesting that blogging academics will end up in road repair advertising positions....

2 comments:

Rebecca said...

That is freakin' hilarious!!! I'd rather pictured Ivan Tribble looking like Ivan the Terrible, complete with a penchant for boiling bloggers in oil... Now I'm picturing a kind of Tribble-Scalia hybrid, only bald...

Ahistoricality said...

I pictured him as tall, pale (but a bit red-nosed) and with one of those really loud "Hello!" voices and hearty handshakes; the kind of person everyone likes on first meeting and only realizes later is death in committee meetings....

Oh wait, that's someone else...never mind.