I bin SLIMED!

May 07, 2009 22:29

I'm not opposed to making a little money. I've sold ads on my website before. Usually tattoo equipment ads, interestingly enough. So when someone from a UK company contacted me with a request to buy a small text-based ad, I was open to the idea. They wanted to put it on Annabel's restoration page, so I figured they were probably a car-related business.

NOT SO MUCH.

They were an online gambling site. Uh, guess what, online gambling is a felony is Washington State. (Yeah, I know, that's kind of a retarded law. I think you'd have to be, well, retarded to gamble online anyway, but I don't like the GUVMINT telling me not to. But that's neither here nor there. The point is, FELONY.)

That in itself isn't all that slimy, although they certainly hadn't said up front what they did. The slimy bit comes along when they sent me the code for the ad. They wanted  it inserted INTO MY CAPTION TEXT on the page. Here's what my text says:

Look at that pretty silver powdercoat on her manifold. And her sporty red spark plug wires. She's got the sexiest rumble! (Although the first time I ever fired her up, a mummified mouse shot out of her tailpipe.)
Here's what they sent me. I have copied and pasted the latter half of the email, for your entertainment and/or horror. Slime text in red.

Look at that pretty silver powdercoat on her manifold. And her sporty red spark plug wires. She's got the sexiest rumble! (Although the first time I ever fired her up, a mummified mouse shot out of her tailpipe.) This is how all engines should be! Annabel's more valuable to me now, not even a http://www.evil fucking website I'm not going to name because I want to stay out of jail.com/">texas holdem worth of money would get me to part with her!

Note: This content was written by one of our in-house writers and as you can see it fits the flow of the page perfectly. If you wish us to change or tweak it some more, please let me know.

Yyyyyeah. That sounded EXACTLY like my copy, didn't it? (Hint: if you say yes, I will put a boot up your ass.)

There's gotta be a more honerable way to earn sixty bucks. I think I could start DOWN ON THE DOCKS AT NIGHT and feel much better about myself.

Off to take a shower or three.

weird stuff

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