My favorite aspect of blogging is interacting with you guys. I’ve been doing this for years and don’t think I’d still be at it if it weren’t for the interaction in the comments section and in person, as it makes it all the more fun.
Speaking of comments, while 99% of those left on this blog are “legitimate,” there are some that obviously aren’t. With one notable exception I don’t moderate comments, so what you see is what I get. 
Most interesting has to be the “plants” and “trolls,” either because they’re trying to promote their travel provider, trying to prevent other people from getting in on a deal, or something else. This most commonly comes in a couple of forms:
- Those that leave a comment intentionally deceiving people in hopes of others not taking advantage of the deal
- Those from a hotel or airline that will leave a favorable comment months after the review when it’s clear they work for the hotel (a problem TripAdvisor faces on a much larger scale)
But this morning I woke up to a couple of comments that had me literally laughing out loud. When you leave a comment from an IP for the first time it has to be manually approved, and I always try to do that as soon as I can.
This morning one of those comments pending moderation was on my review of the Lufthansa First Class Lounge JFK, which I wrote back in May. In and of itself that’s not strange, since a lot of my old posts get new readers thanks to the Google machine! That comment read as follows:
Okay, fair enough. The grammer iz a bit of, but who m I 2 juge?
Then the next comment in the moderation queue, left just six minutes later, was this one (mind you, the above comment didn’t appear publicly at the time the second one was left, so “Tracy’s” comment wasn’t visible when “Philp’s” was left):
Of course I’m certain this is simply a combination of mind reading and a coincidence…
The only part of this that’s a bit puzzling to me is who compliments themselves (or their friend or family member) and mentions “space teeth?” Unless, of course, I’m misinterpreting this, and her space teeth would go well with my astronaut ice cream…
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October 11th, 2012 at 7:14 pm
1K said,
LOL…omg.
October 11th, 2012 at 7:14 pm
1K said,
This is awesome, thank you.
October 11th, 2012 at 7:33 pm
David said,
A product of Google Translate?
October 11th, 2012 at 7:43 pm
BothofUs2 said,
LOL thanks for this, funniest post I have read all day. Maybe they meant well ‘spaced teeth’ ?
October 11th, 2012 at 7:57 pm
Despina said,
@Ben, I love it! Too funny and a sincere thanks for sharing.
October 11th, 2012 at 7:58 pm
gluedtothewindow said,
This deal is dead folks, can’t book any more seats in F
October 11th, 2012 at 8:08 pm
BR said,
LOL! And the names sound fake too
October 11th, 2012 at 8:11 pm
Philp Johns said,
Lucky, Space tooth r space btw teeth
October 11th, 2012 at 8:27 pm
BBTBphile said,
It’s all about the space tooth! First it was all about boobs, then all about behinds, now it’s all about large luscious tooth spaces!
October 11th, 2012 at 8:31 pm
Philp Johns said,
If space tooth present, short and curlys will get caught
October 11th, 2012 at 8:38 pm
Sam said,
This is great!!!!! I love it. I’m still laughing
October 11th, 2012 at 9:20 pm
Jonathan said,
This seriously just made my day. Love it! S
October 11th, 2012 at 10:03 pm
Dax said,
I can confirm that Tiffany has a terrible case of Space Bite and dresses extremely sloppy. She’s very rude and obnoxious and it’s hard to understand whatever it is she’s trying to say.
October 11th, 2012 at 10:21 pm
Steelsnow said,
From space teeth to space needles, we get it all here at One Shower At A Time!
October 12th, 2012 at 1:04 am
Gregorygrady said,
Glad you posted that first link. I always wondered what happened to that clown “frank”, and now I finally know. I guess I missed your original post about him.
October 12th, 2012 at 2:48 am
Shimon said,
Yes Terminal 1! No it wasn’t Tiffany or Jill. I think his name was Juergen though
October 12th, 2012 at 5:40 am
mike d. said,
This was so funny. You go girls!!
October 12th, 2012 at 6:11 am
Lucas said,
LOL
I agree with BBTBphile.
Do we know if Swiss is offering space teeth? Otherwise I ain´t travelling with them no more. One more reason to choose Lufthansa
October 12th, 2012 at 6:14 am
Naif said,
lol..desperation at its peak
October 12th, 2012 at 6:37 am
Rasputin said,
bah, posts about women and space teeth, but no pictures. I wonder if we can email that poster and ask for a pic of this nicely dressed lady and her space teeth.
October 12th, 2012 at 8:31 am
snic said,
Even if the commenter were trying to say “nicely spaced teeth”… what on earth does that MEAN? Who compliments somebody on how well spaced their teeth are? Except maybe for orthodontists… does the poster’s ip trace to an orthodontist’s office?
October 12th, 2012 at 8:51 am
Dax said,
To be fair, it’s still entirely possible that this Tiffany girl is not actually responsible for those posts and that they are either the work of an overactive admirer or the reverse psychology of a detractor.
October 12th, 2012 at 9:15 am
steve64 said,
Some people use the “warm nuts” theory to determine if they will have great service during a flight.
Myself, I can tell much earlier. At boarding, I always look the FA in the eye and say hello. If I get a good smile then the flight will be good. If Space Teeth are behind the smile then the flight will be fantastic
October 12th, 2012 at 12:37 pm
Kevin said,
This is probably a case of “Link Spam” – the users leave a URL in the “Website” field of the comment – the theory is that having a bunch of links from established sites back to a new site “link juice” can help up the Google Page Rank of that new site.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:24 pm
lucky said,
@ Kevin — The link they were leaving was actually just to yahoo.com. So don’t think it was even intentional that they left a link.
October 12th, 2012 at 9:59 pm
Dax said,
According to Yahoo.com this is what Space Teeth looks like…
http://th07.deviantart.net/fs70/300W/i/2010/159/7/9/Space_Teeth_by_headstrong15.png
October 15th, 2012 at 3:21 pm
emily said,
philp. that is a good name.
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