# Yikes! What's with the mattress spam??? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 19, 2012, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992 "2012-01-19T09:43:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992/1 "2012-01-19T09:43:33Z")
[Yikes!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14683994#post14683994) ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992/2 "2012-01-19T10:11:16Z")
Eh, just a spammer who managed to avoid the automatic spam detecting software. I took care of it. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992/3 "2012-01-19T10:17:22Z")
Very similar MO to one that was on yesterday posting links to download movies. Bot or lonely spammer in a shed in India somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992/4 "2012-01-19T10:19:41Z")
I guess these are the hours spamers spam. I noticed a few. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992/5 "2012-01-19T10:27:07Z")
It wasn’t just spam for mattresses but for some kind of memory enhancement product, some kind of foam. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992/6 "2012-01-19T10:45:45Z")
Still spam. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992/7 "2012-01-19T12:05:46Z")
> [@the lone cashew](#): > > It wasn’t just spam for mattresses but for some kind of memory enhancement product, some kind of foam. Don’t click the links man! It only encourages them. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992/8 "2012-01-19T12:39:26Z")
> [@the lone cashew](#): > > It wasn’t just spam for mattresses but for some kind of memory enhancement product, some kind of foam. I think it was for “memory foam” mattresses. Foam that enhances your memory…that sounds kind of cyberpunkish actually. “Just in from Singapore, black market silicon foam memory implant chips.” ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992/9 "2012-01-19T12:49:28Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > I think it was for “memory foam” mattresses. > > Foam that enhances your memory…that sounds kind of cyberpunkish actually. “Just in from Singapore, black market silicon foam memory implant chips.” Cool. I’ll be able to take the SDMB intelligence test soon then to lengthen my edit window. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992/10 "2012-01-19T12:50:53Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > I think it was for “memory foam” mattresses. > > Foam that enhances your memory…that sounds kind of cyberpunkish actually. “Just in from Singapore, black market silicon foam memory implant chips.” Whoah, man, that stuff is full ROM. It’s probably got a couple of MEGAbytes in it! ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992/11 "2012-01-19T12:54:49Z")
I read this as mattress **sperm** , and I was thinking, “Dude, get a tube sock!”.😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992/12 "2012-01-19T13:05:12Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Don’t click the links man! It only encourages them. Haven’t clicked any links, just trying to make some fail jokes about memory foam. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992/13 "2012-01-19T13:45:25Z")
> [@the lone cashew](#): > > Haven’t clicked any links, just trying to make some fail jokes about memory foam. 🙂 Ooops… whoosh… completely missed that from your post. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992/14 "2012-01-19T13:47:49Z")
> [@the lone cashew](#): > > Haven’t clicked any links, just trying to make some fail jokes about memory foam. 🙂 It must worry you that people took you seriously. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992/15 "2012-01-19T13:48:32Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > I read this as mattress **sperm** , and I was thinking, “Dude, get a tube sock!”.😛 I’ll bet that memory foam wishes it could forget a lot of things… ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992/16 "2012-01-19T13:53:08Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > I’ll bet that memory foam wishes it could forget a lot of things… If only mattresses could talk… ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992/17 "2012-01-19T18:56:23Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > If only mattresses could talk… They do on Sqornshellous Zeta, although they are very dim-witted and incapable of carrying on a stimulating conversation. And it’s hard to keep track of who said what because they are all named Zem. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-whats-with-the-mattress-spam/609992/18 "2012-01-19T19:04:42Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > I’ll bet that memory foam wishes it could forget a lot of things… > [@brittekland](#): > > If only mattresses could talk… “Kill me now!”