Why does this happen? For some reason, perhaps the oddity of ordering milk from an online bookseller, has attracted a large number of spoof reviews — Lovecraft, Coleridge, romances, haiku. Here’s a bit of Tuscan Whole Milk flash fiction:
This milk was so good, I passed out. When I woke up 3 weeks later, apes ruled the earth. It was crazy. DRINK THIS MILK!
Via BoingBoing, which credits ytmnd.com for the meme.
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Thanks for the note, Christopher! I had to stop reading because my eyes were filling with tears, I was laughing so hard.
They’re b-a-a-a-a-a-ck!
Oh, that’s a shame! Thanks for the update. I wonder how long it will take the million monkeys to restore that page to its former glory?
Amazon has deleted everything.
Fantastic writing in reviews of milk on amazon
Via Dennis Jerz via Boing Boing, word of hundreds of fake reviews for a real product on Amazon, a gallon of Tuscan whole milk. Jerz imagines quite rightly that the novelty of ordering milk from an online bookstore is the…