YSaC, Vol. 1345: Big Yellow Taxing

2012 September 21

Here’s a headscratcher that was posted in “Rooms for Rent”:

LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…


LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT ME IF INTERESTED!!!
[address] 8am to ?? Baby items, toys, stroller clothes household
items lots of miscellaneous items

[link to a roommate service]

Price is vital in products competing with each other on retail shelves, but delivery and reliability might be much more important for materials used by manufacturers in volume, for which a shortage can affect an entire production line.LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT… In the restaurant business, for example, competition might depend on reputation and trends in one part of the market, and on location and parking in another

Um – are you SURE it’s full of black ink? Looks like you ran out about halfway through, and all you had left was yellow. Now, dear readers, if you’re actually curious as to what the illegible yellow text says, you can make it easier to read by highlighting it with your mouse.

The problem is, while that improves the legibility, it doesn’t actually help it make any SENSE. But if you do end up buying whatever it is, I’ve got a table you can put it on. And then maybe you can open a restaurant. With a roommate. At a yard sale. With black ink. From 8 until ??

I think ?? about covers it.

Thanks, Ross!

28 Responses leave one →
  1. 2012 September 21
    kelli permalink

    How am I supposed to highlight the text with my mouse on my phone? Maybe I should use one of RW’s rats.

    Adores: 1
    • 2012 September 21
      CapnMac permalink

      You are not missing so very much. Other than a ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!ROOFER!-style abuse of the color yellow.

      Adores: 5
    • 2012 September 21

      Just for kelli –

      Price is vital in products competing with each other on retail shelves, but delivery and reliability might be much more important for materials used by manufacturers in volume, for which a shortage can affect an entire production line.…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !! CONTACT… (ALLCAPS text is repeated 16 more times) In the restaurant business, for example, competition might depend on reputation and trends in one part of the market, and on location and parking in another

      Adores: 4
    • 2012 September 21

      You’re welcome to try, Kelli, but right now they’re asleep. And to be honest, they’re fairly unco-operative when they’re awake.

      Adores: 3
  2. 2012 September 21
    CapnMac permalink

    Full of ink, black and colored?
    And a roommate locator service?
    This sounds like a Lío comic strip–it’s a Squid orphanage rehoming scam!

    Adores: 4
  3. 2012 September 21

    I’m sorry, Sparky, but if your baby items, toys, stroller, clothes, and household items are full of ink of whatever color, then they’re not like new. Now, if they were filled with Spice Christ, colored and black, I might be interested.

    Adores: 8
  4. 2012 September 21
    Ralph permalink

    I do not like green dregs and spam. Especially in baby items.

    Adores: 7
  5. 2012 September 21
    LimeLolly permalink

    Awww… someone scared the baby squid.

    Adores: 11
  6. 2012 September 21

    :puts on festive party hat:

    Deck the halls with lots of ink,
    Fa-la-la-la, la la la la!
    Black and yellow and even pink!
    Fa-la-la-la, la la la la!

    Adores: 11
    • 2012 September 21
      LimeLolly permalink

      Don we now our baby items
      Fa la la la la la… la la la
      As we try to read the highlighted writings
      Fa la la la…la la la la

      Adores: 8
      • 2012 September 21

        O Sparkybot, O Sparkybot,
        How crazy is your posting!
        With yellow text and lack of sense
        You’d sell it all for half a pence!
        O Sparkybot, O Sparkybot,
        How crazy is your posting!

        Adores: 8
  7. 2012 September 21
    One Moving Violation permalink

    I was going to do a song to “Paint it Black”, but my keyboard ran out of INK.

    Adores: 3
  8. 2012 September 21
    mud "static noise" slicker permalink

    Black is black
    I want my spectrum back
    It’s gray, it’s gray
    Since red went away, Ooh-Ooh
    What can I do
    ‘Cause I-I-I-I-I’m feelin’ like Honey Boo Boo.

    If I had my way
    I’d clean the ashtray
    But she don’t intend
    To hit resend, Ooh-Ooh
    What can I do
    ‘Cause I-I-I-I-I’m feelin’ like Honey Boo Boo.

    Bad is bad
    I love my tartan plaid
    It’s time, it’s time
    I used some yellow slime , Ooh-Ooh
    What can I do
    ‘Cause I-I-I-I-I’m feelin’ like Honey Boo Boo.

    Black is black
    I want my rainbow back
    It’s colored, it’s colored
    Just like French’s mustard, Ooh-Ooh
    What can I do
    ‘Cause I-I-I-I-I’m feelin’ like Honey Boo Boo.
    ‘Cause I-I-I-I-I’m feelin’ like Honey Boo Boo.

    Adores: 7
  9. 2012 September 21
    KatyCat permalink

    But… “rooms for rent”? So, the room is like new and filled with ink? How full are we talking, here? Because if the price is right, I might be able to deal with, say, an inch or so on the bottom, but full to the point of needing scuba gear? Maybe I’ll rent elsewhere.

    Adores: 11
  10. 2012 September 21
    Irregular Fractal permalink

    Clearly, Dan posting this on Friday is designed to make sure the weekend drinking starts early.

    Adores: 8
    • 2012 September 21
      LimeLolly permalink

      I didn’t realize we needed an excuse..*hic*

      Adores: 6
      • 2012 September 21
        mud "static noise" slicker permalink

        I’ve had the blender warming up since 7am.

        Adores: 4
        • 2012 September 21
          CapnMac permalink

          Well, there’s your problem right there.
          You don’t need to warm up the blender (not even the 3HP ones).
          What you want to do is the chill the glass part(s).
          This is mo’ betta.

          Adores: 3
    • 2012 September 21
      Rabbit Roulette permalink

      I’ve been swigging cough syrup all week. It doesn’t help much. Maybe I need to get the recipe for my grampa’s homemade version. I think moonshine whiskey features prominently, but I don’t remember the other ingredients.

      Adores: 3
      • 2012 September 21

        I use one spoonful of honey mixed with one spoonful of whiskey, sipped slowly. It doesn’t always work, but after a couple of doses I don’t really care.

        Adores: 4
  11. 2012 September 21
    Demon Duck of Doom permalink

    Nope, not falling for this again. The last time I bought colored lenses from Sparky’s Discount Contact Emporium, I ended up with two black eyes.

    Adores: 2
  12. 2012 September 21
    Demon Duck of Doom permalink

    Could somebody corey me as to the purpose of nonsensical Craigsbot messages? I’m not getting who would respond to them or how they work. Color me curious/yellow.

    Adores: 2
    • 2012 September 21

      I’ve always assumed that the scripts the spammers use to generate the word-salad ad copy are glitchy and the spammers either don’t care or aren’t familiar enough with English to know the difference.

      Adores: 3
    • 2012 September 21
      CapnMac permalink

      Ah, in ‘regular’ phishing, you send out an email with an attachment or and embedded url link within it.

      Even (some) sparkii can work out that “Do Not Click On The Attachment” really means just that.

      With CL, you just leave the email link in place, then make an offer too good to be true (or just bizarre enough to reel in sparkii). They then click on the email link, which then passes a validated email address to the spammer.

      Valid email addresses are worth money to spammers. So, a list of valid addresses is worth buying/selling.

      While it is simple enough to just generate every IP possible and email them all, having a list of ‘good’ addresses cuts down on the overhead time.

      Mechanism works like this.
      You get some sawhorses, and some planks or plywood, or metal siding. Set 10-20 el cheapo–but working–computers (ever wonder who buys $25 386 or 486 computers?) on that surface. Load them with a dialer/addresser system that will then fire off 1 email per second, and press “Run.”
      Repeat for each machine on your table.
      86,400 seconds in a day.
      Ten computers gets you 864,000 messages per day.
      “Hit” rate is between 1 : 10,000 and 1 : 15,000–that will net you 50-60 “hits” per day.
      For one table.

      Start with a list of valid addresses (and probably gullible ones at that) your potential rate-of-return drops to 1 : 70-80.
      Only 1440 minutes in a day, and your reel-them-in messages need closer to a minute each. But, that’s 18 per day.

      The true limiting factor on spam at present is the less-reliable power/telco connections found where these operations run.

      Adores: 2
  13. 2012 September 21
    Malfunctioning Spambot #4 permalink

    CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !!
    CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !!
    CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !!
    CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !!
    CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !!
    CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !!
    CONTACT…LIKE NEW, AND IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK !!
    All wOrk and no play; makes JacK’ a DuLl Boy

    Adores: 3
  14. 2012 September 21

    SJ, when next I’m sick, I want to bunk at your house. Honey and whiskey sound like a good remedy for lots of ills.

    Adores: 2
  15. 2012 September 22

    I know a duck, but not just any duck, this is the Demon Duck of Doom, DOOM!
    I know a cat, but not just any cat, this is the ghostcat who snarks the room, ROOM!
    Now this duck and this cat have been in the box all day, DAY!
    If I let them out, they’ll snark and shout, so listen to what they say, SAY!

    Punchity Punch Punch!

    Good Morning, Mr. Roboto!

    Adores: 1
  16. 2012 October 1
    Chester Allman permalink

    The thing’s hollow – it goes on forever, and MY GOD, IS FULL OF INK COLORED AND BLACK

    Adores: 2

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