Acronym

Many off you saw earlier this week, either via Scott's FYI post or via the comments feed itself, that Acronym has been experiencing a heavy onslaught of spam comments lately (a "spambush," if you will), enough to force us to turn on comment moderation for the time being.

If you paid close attention to the spam comments that snuck through the filter before we turned on moderation, you may have also noticed that, despite being rather cryptic and not quite coherent (as spam usually is), each one began with an odd quote or maxim. So, in an effort to make light of an annoying situation, I've compiled some of the best pearls of wisdom offered up during the spamstorm.

As Lisa Junker noted, most of these, if not all of them, appear to be quotes from actual people. Some of them may just be nonsense. And none of them are related to association management, but we all need a distraction every now and then. Enjoy.

• The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
• Nothing is said that has not been said before.
• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
• All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors.
• What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
• Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
• The only difference between a rut and a grave is in their dimensions.
• Facts are the enemy of truth.
• Feet: why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
• Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
• You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
• There are two types of people: those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."
• Editor: a person employed by a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff and to see that the chaff is printed.

In this case, the chaff has been blogged.

Thanks again for your patience, everyone. We hope to have the spam issue resolved soon.