Bad (Banned) Forum Words

[Uncle Cracker]

...and Heather Locklear (sorry UC), don't return my calls either.

At least I know I'm not the only guy whose blip is not on Heather's radar...

[smorris]

adult site blocker consultant

Hate to say this, but I actually do that as part of my job. I review the proxies and firewalls and have to go look at questionable sites to see if they are actionable. So, yes, they do pay me to look at porn LOL.

[Alex Franke]

We wrote a content management system nearly a decade ago now and we left the "dirty word list" up to a kid on the team -- told him to enter everything he could think of. It took him a couple of days and the list got pretty darn big.

Works like "suck" were censored only if the were combined with words like "me" and "off". "h*ll" was bleeped only when preceed by "go to" or "what the" or things like that.

We had a couple of flub-ups. In one case, we were accidentally censoring "shitake mushrooms" -- because of how it starts, of course. (This means we couldn't just filter out the first four letters -- that kid had to think of all the related compound words!

I got burned here once for tryping to type out the full name of one of my fav linux distros, DSL... Seems maybe a little strict to me, but then again it's not my house, so who am I to compalin?

[Russianwolf]

Worked at a place one time and had major email issues with one client. The IT department was blocking all the emails that were sent from this guy, so I never knew when he would send something.


All because his name was Dick. it was in both his signature and email address, and IT wouldn't budge.I had to set up a email address (gmail) for him to send things to that I had to check periodically. royal pain.

[Russianwolf]

Reminds me of the George Carlin act of his 7 words you can't say on TV.
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the thing I find the funniest about Carkin's 7 words, is that the list made it to the supreme court.

[scmhogg]

Back when my computer was a Tandy CoCo with 16K Ram, I bought a speech cartridge that came with a face on the screen that mouthed the words spoken by the cart.

If you typed in a bad word it bowdlerized them to something suitable. The F-word came out "fudge" , Sh**, came out shoot, da** as darn, etc.

Steve

[pierhogunn]

Bruce, I do believe that a list detailing the spelling and proper usage of Yiddish curse words is long over due, after all swearing in a foreign language always sounds more educated than swearing in one's own language

neat thing about marriage, it can simultaneously occupy two states at once, heaven and ****, ain't love grand

(should've stopped at 1 margarita for lunch)

[germdoc]

Here's a link to Carlin's classic routine, still hilarious after all these years:

http://www.erenkrantz.com/Humor/SevenDirtyWords.shtml

Interesting what words are asterisked by this forum engine. I mean, who decided that p---, c---------, and t--- (you all know what they are) were OK, and not s***, mother******, etc.?