Bob, I suspect this is the reference:
http://www.goofball.com/jokes/jokela...00621_jokeland
As for stopping the spam, use a confirmed opt in registration - send automatic email when someone signs in, user has to confirm email address by clicking link to open up a page with a captcha system to filter out spam robots (captcha is the squiggly distorted words -see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha)