New Kind of Spam

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charlpic wrote:Absolutely ! I saw the poll after I replied and was like... WT* ?
I'm right there with you! How did I miss the poll in the first place?
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Oh bother... I am no native speaker, please help me:
What is a "humdinger"?
What does "like... WT* ?" mean?
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nachtkrabb wrote:Oh bother... I am no native speaker, please help me:
What is a "humdinger"?
What does "like... WT* ?" mean?
Thanks
Ruth
:) I googled "humdinger" too ! Ended up with "A remarkable or outstanding person or thing of its kind".

With WT*, I meant...
"What the ...(insert your favorite expression)"
could be Heck, Hell, or the Fword.
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Been seeing this on my forum too. I joke that soon the spam will be so advanced it'll actually teach us things.
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nachtkrabb wrote:Oh bother... I am no native speaker, please help me:
What is a "humdinger"?

In the context of that off-topic poll question, which had nothing to do with the post, "humdinger" refers to something particularly extraordinary or unusual.
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PoC wrote:Been seeing this on my forum too. I joke that soon the spam will be so advanced it'll actually teach us things.
Yeah, no kidding. Darryl caught this and let me know about it. I think it is probably a way to "sucker" people in and get a lot of attention in that direction. Strange that the rest of the post seems so relevant. :dontknow:
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newest one...
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Its gone! :)
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charlpic and tumamoc,
thanks for your help!
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Some junk from user owen in 'cacti places->new area' post.
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Two in 'Identification' :roll:
There's no 12 step programme for Cactaholics...so I shall just have to get some more!!
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Evil spammer: 2 in cacti identification, 1 in succulent identification
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gone now :thumbup:
incurable cactoholic
growing rebutia's with a mix of others.
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I see that that type of spam is catching up with cactiforum as well. We have had some problems in my Clan's page for an on-line game I play. (also recently we lost all of our gold as someone hacked in and transferred it to the leaders... I guess in some sort of attempt to make us stop beating everyone in the game lolz)
Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.
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3 posts by member andy111 in cactiguide.com comments
With apologies to the late Professor C. D. Darlington the following misquotation springs to
mind ‘cactus taxonomy is the pursuit of the impossible by the incompetent’ - Fearn & Pearcy, Rebutia (1981)
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