• Jon (unregistered)

    I'm installing a glbutt window with brbutt fittings. Or is that style too pbutte?

  • (cs) in reply to Ven'Tatsu
    Ven'Tatsu:
    I used to work for a movie retail site that did things almost as clueless as this. We carried movies like "Octokitten" and "Josie and the Kittencats".

    Come on now, tell the truth... we all know you were really looking for "Shaved Kittens 29".

  • (cs)
  • ForcedSterilizationsForAll (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Andrew:
    Well, at least "authentification" & "intelligentize" make logical sense.

    <pet peeve>Is there any other kind of sense?</pet peeve>

    Sense of sight, sense of smell, fashion sense, sense of direction, sense of pride, etc. So yes, there are multiple types of sense.

  • (cs) in reply to Fant
    Fant:
    Last time I checked "ass" was a synonym for equus asinus, an animal in the equine family.

    Yes, and Dick is a nickname for Richard, a cock is a male chicken, and a pussy is a synonym for cat. You have a problem with homophones?

  • Fant (unregistered) in reply to SuperousOxide
    SuperousOxide:
    Fant:
    Last time I checked "ass" was a synonym for equus asinus, an animal in the equine family.

    Yes, and Dick is a nickname for Richard, a cock is a male chicken, and a pussy is a synonym for cat. You have a problem with homophones?

    Me? Absolutely not! And I enjoy watching the tits in my garden...

  • (cs) in reply to Benanov
    Benanov:

    I did that search and found some newsgroup-regurgitator web site that 'censored' the post. The coup de grace, though, was the ad on the side (next to one for a pyramid scheme) saying that Israel shoots babies and decrying US "military buttistance".

    In other news, it's too bad that nobody ever screws up the regex so it goes the other way. "Now add half a stick of asser..."

  • Josh Peters (unregistered)

    < and > are good things.

    so is \b

  • (cs) in reply to jpaull

    I couldn't work it out. Even with the post immediately after highlighting the exact problem.

    http://blog.deckmonster.com/archives/192-I-learned-a-new-non-word-today....html

    That TOLD me the answer.

    It is along the lines of "Hi, I'm Virginia from Scunthorpe" not being allowed language on various chat boards.

    s/ass/butt/g

    Sheesh.

    Nice one for the morning, got me thinking at least.

    Ex

  • mspak (unregistered)

    Sometimes it's difficult to tell whether it's a joke...

  • Buttessor (unregistered)

    Stupid buttwipes! Buttfornicators! The list goes on...

  • Troy McClure (unregistered)

    Lawyers are such ssemen-sucking leeches. They never do enough rectalysis of the issues before coming to a conclusion.

    Fornicate!

  • derek haas (unregistered) in reply to jpaull

    I see what you did there, but let's be honest - no one uses buttembly language any more...its so old i feel like its from the jurbuttic period

  • Complete Looney (unregistered) in reply to jpaull

    Speaking of word filters, Supreme Commander wouldn't let me have "spike" as a nickname. No idea why.

  • Yep (unregistered) in reply to Complete Looney
    Complete Looney:
    Speaking of word filters, Supreme Commander wouldn't let me have "spike" as a nickname. No idea why.

    Maybe they were picking up "spik" as a racial slur. I don't think that's even spelled correctly, but you never know.

  • incoherent (unregistered)

    This is a clbutty thread.

  • One BadButt MotherPucker (unregistered) in reply to Fant
    Fant:
    The real WTF is that apparently Americans can't spell "arse" correctly.

    Last time I checked "ass" was a synonym for equus asinus, an animal in the equine family.

    well, way to rain on our parade. Just know that this wouldn't be as funny if it weren't American, cause finding replacements for "arse" would be very spbutt. So spbutt, in fact, I had to use my fbutteing mental abilities (the internets) to find a word that works.

    I'll gladly pbutt on the arse, butt. :P

  • (cs) in reply to anbsur
    anbsur:
    TRWTF is that the guy is talking about how great NeXT's are.
    Actually, NextStep is the single greatest system ever made. Once you program in it, you will understand object-oriented concepts with a clarity words can never manage. It's just that good.

    What killed NeXTs was their sky-high prices. The cheapest model available was a grayscale machine which was US $3000 in 1990.

  • (cs) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    Welcome to "Bottom of the Barrel Monday", apparently.
    One hundred dimwit posts on -- not only apparently, but really (to misquote the title of a Phil Dick biography).

    Seconded.

    The motion is put to the House...

  • schnitzi (unregistered) in reply to jpaull

    Yes, but to make fun of them would amount to nothing more than than character buttbuttination.

  • Trevor (unregistered)

    You know it took me a while to figure out what clbuttic meant. It wasn't until I though, huh, what is another word for butt? Though to be politically correcty, it should be "The Cldonkeyic Mistake" So as not to offend anyone with the word 'butt'.

  • flownez (unregistered) in reply to Trevor
    Trevor:
    You know it took me a while to figure out what clbuttic meant. It wasn't until I though, huh, what is another word for butt? Though to be politically correcty, it should be "The Cldonkeyic Mistake" So as not to offend anyone with the word 'butt'.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=Cldonkeyic

  • (cs) in reply to woohoo
    woohoo:
    so that's what we get from over-the-top (american?!) political correctness.

    ... but if pc really is the way to go, then this site must be renamed!

    WTC - what-the-copulation or what-the-coitus

    What The Fuck? Why does the site need to be renamed? Everyone knows WTF stands for "Worse Than Failure."

  • (cs) in reply to anoncow
    anoncow:
    I just figured it out!!!!!! "Clbuttic" means "Classic".

    I did a Google search as recommended. Something caught my eye, some web page source that includes the following line of code. This is Real WTF (tm):

    So I searched for "Clbutt". And I got this result:

    "We [Greater Kansas City Wine Clbuttic] held our 7th annual amateur wine contest last weekend. Best-Of-Show and Best-Of-Clbutt winners are shown here with their prizes. A full list of all winners can be seen on our web page www.cellarmasters.org"

    So I was looking at this, and it finally dawned on me.

    Butt == Ass

    clASSic == clBUTTic

    Maybe some smart-alec software thought that BUTT was less offensive than ASS!

    I think we'll find that all occurrences of 'Clbuttic' originated in some automated, screwed up way like this. Can anybody refute that?

    lol captcha : haero

    WOW! Thanks Sherlock! So you think this was automated? I just thought it was someone manually keying in C L B U T T I C because they just couldn't get themselves to type in A S S.

  • Mark (unregistered) in reply to PeriSoft

    Apparently, China is worried about trademarks of clbuttic breastles

    http://www.jucee.org/China/What-did-the-British-Embbutty-do-for-this-British-National-Overseas-pbuttport-holder.html

    "If foreign companies put inappropriate content into games using the breastles of the Chinese clbuttics, it could have serious bad influence on young people. The protection of the intellectual properties of these Chinese clbuttics relates to our traditional culture and the education of our children," he added.

  • captain obvious (unregistered) in reply to Someone
    Someone:
    Hmm, someone needs to learn about whitespace quantifiers!
    They probably just tried to be smart and catch ass, asshole, assfisting, etc. with the one rule.
  • (cs) in reply to z
    z:
    No suggestions for "clbuttic", but I have encountered similarly baffling non-words on "engrish" foreign websites- apparently certain languages intuitively suggest that "intelligentize" (Chinese) and "complectation" (Russian) should be actual words.
    One of my favorite examples of this that I've stumbled across is "mrvhsnidm". (No, really, Google it!)

    I can only assume that the compiler of some Chinese-English dictionary had his left hand off by one key when typing that translation...

  • (cs) in reply to anonymous
    anonymous:
    I always like "blueuce" and "greenuce".
    Oh, yes, I particularly love that variation. It's quite inspiyellow.
  • jstr (unregistered)

    And now if you google clbuttic thedailywtf.com is the second hit.

  • Rebecca (unregistered)

    I did something very, very similar to this when I just started developing and had been introduced to my first search+replace method.

    I wrote everything saying 'we this, we that'... and when the circumstances changed and I was working on the site alone.... search for 'we' replace with 'I'... let's just say, because it was a website I was working on... it was now an Ibsite. And many other such stupid things.

    I was tempted to search+replace back, but was smart enough to realize that would cause even more problems.

  • joemck (unregistered) in reply to s.
    s.:
    I'd like to read an article about African Wild Butt.
    http://aro.wingdreams.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2774&st=20
  • nny76 (unregistered) in reply to jpaull

    Classic story.. really classic.

  • v.dog (unregistered)

    A friend told me of a New Zealand forum where the admin got sick of people using 'ass' instead of 'arse', so he wrote a script.

    It was all well good, until they started talking about Assassins.

  • csrster (unregistered) in reply to SuperousOxide
    SuperousOxide:
    Fant:
    Last time I checked "ass" was a synonym for equus asinus, an animal in the equine family.

    Yes, and Dick is a nickname for Richard, a cock is a male chicken, and a pussy is a synonym for cat. You have a problem with homophones?

    Ok, but can we all agree that "Jesus entered Jerusalem riding on a butt" is an improvement on the original?

  • anonymous coward (unregistered)

    So this one took us some time to figure out. On the same page as the ever amusing "loveual harbuttment" we found repeated, and unwarrented, use of "liquidate".

    So what were they talking about? For example: "in several instances eve-teasing has been followed by more violent buttaults such as rape and liquidate" http://www.plex86.org/computer_2/No-nudes-Playboy-alters-look-for-India.html

    It took a thesaurus, but liquidate == murder. ......wtf

  • (cs) in reply to Andrew
    Andrew:
    Compare them to a man who only speaks English, and has an Ivy League degree. He came up with "misunderestimate", which means the opposite of what he likely wanted to say.

    Yes, but by saying it... he also proved it to be true.

  • bas (unregistered)

    Hmm ...buttumptions.... 926 Google hits Webster : no luck

    ...someone care to explain? ....

  • The Mage of Oz (unregistered)

    Three pages of comments and nobody mentioned another classic search and replace mishap: the "Encyclopedia Magica", a 4-volume compilation of magical items from various Advanced Dungeons & Dragons sources, published by TSR in its last delusions of grandeur.

    The terminological oscillation between calling the main spellcasting character class of AD&D "wizard" or "mage" had been decisively resolved by the editors of the Encyclopedia Magica: throughout the four large volumes all those annoying characters became "wizards", and all magical effects caused "dawizard". Hidden mages were also purged from the much fewer "iwizards" and similar words.

    We can safely assume that the reputation of TSR was slightly dawizarded...

  • Metal Lord (unregistered) in reply to s.
    s.:
    I'd like to read an article about African Wild Butt.

    I'd like to see it on the cover of National Geographic

  • (cs)

    I once got banned from IRC for mentioning that a friend of mine lives in Scunthorpe.

    http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=scunthorpe

    Chortle.

  • Wodin (unregistered) in reply to mare
    mare:
    Fant:
    I can add "planification" to this ever growing list...
    And consumation.

    Not quite the same thing, but what about:

    united arab emigrants

  • Anony-mouse (unregistered)

    I can just see the QA process on this one. More disturbingly, I can see myself five years ago, performing the QA on this one.

    [me@localhost /]$ echo ass | ~/scripts/replace_butt.pl butt [me@localhost /]

    "Success!"

    [me@localhost /] lpd < ~/invoices/parser_invoice_$2k.rtf

    (Don't point out my sh mistakes, I don't use lunix day-to-day)

  • ReggieB (unregistered) in reply to jpaull

    I don't know what they have against donkeys and such other animals. Now if the original word had included 'arse', then I can see that action was required.

  • ranasrule (unregistered) in reply to jpaull

    lol

  • (cs) in reply to Ritchie
    Ritchie:
    I first came across this sort of issue about 15 years ago in an online Eliza bot. The first release didn't check for whitespace, so you could really annoy it by saying "Scunthorpe" again and again.

    "Nottingham is a fine city with a fascinating history. It's well documented in official records that the city's original name was 'Snottingham', or 'Home of Snots', but when the Normans came, they couldn't pronounce the letter 'S', so decreed the town be called 'Nottingham' or the 'Home of Notts'. It's easy to understand why this change was resisted so fiercely by the people of Scunthorpe."

  • Mr Cow (unregistered)

    It just goes to show you that the grbutt is greener on the other side of the fence.

  • Knight Online (unregistered)

    This online game once implemented a bleeping out policy for any word that was mildly negative. Not just expletives but words like 'evil' and 'kill'. Warrior was ***rior, and jewels became ***els (is it offensive that they find that word offensive?). Like most of these systems, it ended up drawing attention to every semi-swear that was typed, some of which were obscure enough to warrant looking up.

    It could have been a joke, because the patch with this feature appeared near April 1st, and was reverted less than a week later. What's amazing is that the entire game is written in horribly broken english, but the localization team managed to get a list of hundreds of '***' words down.

  • Spudley (unregistered)

    Hmm.... Reminds me of the famous incident in the town of Scunthorpe, England, when the town council's email system suddenly started rejecting every single email, after the installation of a new spam filter.

  • Anonymous coward (unregistered)

    My son's 2007 Yankees calendar talked about the "African American armband" that all the players wore in remembrance of Thurman Munson.

  • Paolo G (unregistered) in reply to Jon

    The first time I saw "clbuttic", I thought it was something to do with culbute, which is French for "tumble" or "somersault", or culbuter, which is French for "to have sex with"... Anyhow, "cul" is French for "ass", so maybe that should be "buttbute" and "buttbuter" :)

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