I humbly present, for your approval, evidence that most spammers are really, really schizophrenic and need to get back on their meds. We’ve got some serious derailments, thought blocking, and loose associations going on. Some recent messages:

with lower spurs of the Mountain. Two of these here thrust forward west
from the main mass in long steep-sided ridges that fell ever downwards
towards the plain. On this western side there were fewer signs of the
dragons marauding feet, and there was some grass for their ponies. From
this western camp, shadowed all day by cliff and wall until the sun
began to sink towards the forest, day by day they toiled in parties

if they saw him stoop; and even grownup he had still spent a deal of his
time at quoits, dart-throwing, shooting at the wand, bowls, ninepins and
other quiet games of the aiming and throwing sort-indeed he could do
lots of things, besides blowing smoke-rings, asking riddles and cooking,
that I havent had time to tell you about. There is no time now. While
he was picking up stones, the spider had reached Bombur, and soon he

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You see, when some schizophrenics are really sick, their speech gets all garbled up. People start speaking circumstantially –you ask a question and they’ll eventually answer it, but only at a very roundabout way. If they’re speaking tangentially , they go off on a tangent, and never actually answer your question. Even worse, they might start to have a flight of ideas –they start saying phrases that are somewhat related to each other, perhaps the last word of one sentence starts the next sentence: “All around the mulberry bush, the monkey chases the weasel… Weasels are great pets!” (Sometimes if it’s all rhyming words together, that’s clanging .) The most confusing are phrases using loose associations –the sentences don’t even relate to each other anymore. Thought blocking occurs when patients stop talking mid-sentence, and report having their train of thought totally disrupted.

I’d say the spammers need some Haldol, stat.

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