I'm not sure how it started, but I've taken an interest in the letters blogger asks for as word verification. Love it or hate it, this little anti-spam device seems to be here to stay (and by the way, if anyone knows how I can avoid spam comments without it, please let me know). I've been writing them out in the comments I leave on other blogs for a while, and others have been leaving them in comments for me here (strange how traditions like this start, eh?).
Lately I've developed the sneaking suspicion that these apparently random strings of letters are not as random as they seem. Sometimes they're names, or verbs, or strange hybrid-compound words. Sometimes I think that there's a code inside the letters, or something that the blogger bots are trying to tell me about the future. And so I've decided to initiate a little experiment.
If you drop by and feel like leaving a comment, could you please type in the word verification that you are asked for in the comment window. Once I have enough letters I plan to put them together in an anagram generator and see what comes out. I'm betting that it'll be like playing a Beetles record backwards or staring at the sun for too long, and that some deep and mystical secret of the cosmos will be revealed. Either that, or whatever blogger has been trying to tell us in its own way could be cleared up.
Thanks in advance for your help. I'll post the results as soon as I have them...
25 comments:
Great idea Jon :)
wv= cultenom
I had to get in on this one, although I must say that I have had more interesting word verifications than this particular one:
dantersv
That "v" could be problematic...
EDIT: Oh, this is good! Scratch that last one. When I went to submit, it informed me that my entry didn't match the word verification. My new word is:
Makewor
What a curious development. Coincidence?
inesli
hmmmm
great project, Jon... what was it Martin Luther is claimed to have said: love God and sin boldly
this, is bold!
Derliwall,
We'll see where it goes, eh?
Bard,
No coincidences here... the blogger gods have spoken!
Harle,
I'm hoping that the bold god of the blogger word verification prompts didn't hear you...
;D
yerses
Good lord knows the WV is a PIA
I smile and WV 'bobeth' (so what does that mean? Now you have got me thinking/puzzling over such and no doubt will for evermore; every time I see the little buggers!)
I have been wondering about them some myself, after seeing some too-relevant words!
Secretia
Hi Jon,
Good that you are ready to examine this strange fascinating thing called word verification, which does not seem so random at all.
Here we go. Word veri:
ablerit
Interesting! Looking forward to finding out if something comes of this idea of yours... and the word verification is ... scocout
relest
If I write my thoughts for an entire day
Remove all the modifiers, junctions and joiners
Trip past the vacant observations
Filter what is left through some iconic cheesecloth
This might be what you would have left
relest
Hi Jon, it has always struck me that rarely do they have a proper word or even one that can be made into an anagram. Perhaps the powers that be have a machine that stops this.
cocler
interesting
zoigne
I think google trying say saometing to us.
alkies
that's almost "alkis" in Swedish, menas "boose man"
howdy jon,
a mighty interesting post. man, i sure wonder what these words are telling us. it may be something nasty or something neat.
here is my contribution: speriz
Looking forward to the cryptic message Jon.
wv: mobugen
I tried using several of them as "found" words to build my last poem. Some of the more gibberishy ones I had to manipulate a bit though.
wv = redifed
red, I fed?
ofrows
word verf
is annoying
the point of leaving
[word verf] in comments
is a reminder to the blog owner
that they are annoying many visitors with word verf
i don't use word verf on any of my blogs, although i did early on -- instead, i look at the occasional spam meassage as a secret of the universe and play with it -- if it is truly offensive, then i remove it as a courtesy to my visitors -- this is a small price to pay to have a blog and not annoy my visitors
[mandu]
/t.
This is fantastic. Though I accept these letter-strings as a necessary evil, I HATE THEM. I don't know if it's my failing vision or what, but often I can't make out letters and fail, which can be agaonizing if it's a particularly long form. But anyway,
protiess
a female protege? how quaint.
wv's are more innocent
as they are spontaneous
spams have some intentions
and they are so superfluous
:D
Hi Jon,
I haven't been around here lately so I came today to say hi. Hope your new year is off to a great start. I'll be back again. :)
PS
There was no word verification needed.
Odd.
That never happens.
Did you turn something off?
you're too genius! see you around soon hopefully :)
Jon when you post more?
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