• (cs)

    This whole situation is just plain ricockulous. Or should that be riRichardulous?

  • The Wanderer (unregistered)

    I am reminded of a Web forum I came across at random once, some years ago, where a group of people had engaged in an apparently quite serious discussion of "homobad worduality".

    I don't remember what the forum was, or much of anything else about the discussion or the site, but that particular phrase has stuck with me ever since.

  • (cs) in reply to OgdenTechGuy
    OgdenTechGuy:
    This whole situation is just plain ricockulous. Or should that be riRichardulous?

    Given the correct spelling of "ridiculous", it's just as likely to be replaced with HorribleVinDieselMovieulous.

    Actually, that's redundant...

  • (cs) in reply to GalacticCowboy

    TRWTF is this website: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=pTj&q=site%3Abarossa-region.org+buttbuttination&btnG=Search

    "French President Jacques Chirac expressed his deep sadness for Hariri's buttbuttination and asked Syria to withdraw from Lebanon as an implementation of Resolution 1559."

  • (cs) in reply to BlueCollarAstronaut
    BlueCollarAstronaut:
    Butttounding.

    any idea what buttinine script produced this wtf all across the internet?

  • KG (unregistered)

    Am I the only one who doesn't understand the "Scunthorpe" jokes?

  • (cs) in reply to KG
    KG:
    Am I the only one who doesn't understand the "Scunthorpe" jokes?

    string message = "Scunthorpe"; Console.WriteLine(message.Substring(1, 4));

  • KG (unregistered) in reply to GalacticCowboy
    GalacticCowboy:
    KG:
    Am I the only one who doesn't understand the "Scunthorpe" jokes?

    string message = "Scunthorpe"; Console.WriteLine(message.Substring(1, 4));

    Never seen that term before, had to look it up. I realize now I shouldn't have done so at work ;)

  • The Piper (unregistered)

    I finally got it :-) Since I'm not an American, I didn't even think of all the intercoursing idiots trying to censor everything.

  • no way (unregistered) in reply to zip

    The daily WTF takes the second position in google's top!

  • MM (unregistered) in reply to anoncow
    anoncow:
    some smart-alec software thought that BUTT was less offensive than ASS
    This is the part I still find strange. Even if they'd put in the whole-word-only checks to make this work the way they intended without all the WTFs we've been laughing at, why would they want to replace one offensive word with another equally offensive word?
    Trevor:
    Though to be politically correcty, it should be "The Cldonkeyic Mistake" So as not to offend anyone with the word 'butt'.
    I could at least see what they were trying for there, however badly they mangled the implementation.
    anonymous coward:
    For example: "in several instances eve-teasing has been followed by more violent buttaults such as rape and liquidate"

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

    So they actually replaced the proper, legal term for it with a gangster slang synonym??? WTF? Are they trying to make it less offensive or more offensive? (That they didn't recognize the difference between noun and verb usage was minor in comparison.)

  • Dumbbutt (unregistered)

    I was reading a discussion on a message board about golfers. I was quite amused to see references to "Zach BLEEP" and "Brian BLEEP". Obviously "Johnson" and "Gay" are tagged as naughty words. I look forward to the day that a Richard (Dick) Wang joins the PGA tour.

  • Paolo G (unregistered) in reply to Dumbbutt
    Dumbbutt:
    I was reading a discussion on a message board about golfers. I was quite amused to see references to "Zach BLEEP" and "Brian BLEEP". Obviously "Johnson" and "Gay" are tagged as naughty words. I look forward to the day that a Richard (Dick) Wang joins the PGA tour.

    Not to mention the actor Peter O'Toole...

  • (cs)

    I'm surprised nobody mentioned Picbutto yet. (And there's even a result for Picdonkeyo).

  • Tony D (unregistered) in reply to zip

    http://www.bluegrassworld.com/music/Is-the-song-Dueling-Banjos-considered-blue-grbutt.html

    Bluegrbutt music????

  • G Money (unregistered)

    All because some developer went off all half-penised with his regex use.

  • clbutty buttbuttin (unregistered) in reply to Benanov

    ... is not half as bad as buttbuttination.

  • boyfarrell (unregistered)

    Ha! The BBC explain it quite well... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/sci/tech/2138014.stm

  • (cs)

    Reminds me of an overactive text filter in some old internet chat. It censored words like 'pocketwatch'.

  • George W. Pubichair (unregistered) in reply to shadowman
    shadowman:
    There's a tennis forum where when people goof up hitting the ball it gets called a misshoot or misstuff.

    At least, their filter is not gone totally crazy. I just imagine an innocent sport report, where the game suddenly turns about one player serving the other by hitting his testicles with a tennis racket in mid-air.

    Wellarrive to newspeak

  • Fan of TSR Hobbies (unregistered)

    One of those Advanced Dungeons and Dragons source books (from the days when TSR could not afford a full time editor) had lines like this:

    This spell inflicts 1d6 of dawizard to ...

    Apparently, someone did not like the term "mage" that much.

  • (cs) in reply to rycamor
    rycamor:

    I just found out that "clbehindic" is a Googlewhackblatt (i.e., it has only one result)! Apparently, these are very rare.

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

    What is bizarre, though, is the kind of site it appears on. Against better judgement (considering the domain name) I went to see the site anyway, in public. I caught only a glimpse, but what I saw was enough to give me shivers :S

  • Mikel Ward (unregistered)

    What if I wanted meaning 1: Any of several hoofed mammals of the genus Equus, resembling and closely related to the horses but having a smaller build and longer ears, and including the domesticated donkey.

  • (cs) in reply to Laszlo
    Laszlo:

    Not any more... oops

  • Yenja (unregistered) in reply to zip

    Anybody a fan of Frontline Buttembly band?

  • yah (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?

    yes, he's homophonic

  • Stumbler (unregistered)

    Funniest wtf is that if you apply that logic to this comment I still end up insulting people by calling them buttface.

  • Saddam Who's Sane (unregistered)

    Ahah, the first moron tried to be funny but didn't know how to spell "astounding". You fail at everything.

  • Terry (unregistered)

    Funny. That took me a second.

  • eric bloedow (unregistered)

    reminds me of how the Forums of the game Runescape used to censor the word "sextant". and yes, it was mentioned often, since there's a minigame requiring you to use a sextant to find buried treasure.

    oh yeah, then there was the person who used a word-processing program to change the names on the wedding vows the church used...first, "Will" got married, then "Richard"...resulting in the wedding vows saying "Richard you take this man..."

  • Billy Bob (unregistered)

    There's a forum that does this level of filtering

    Peacock Butterfly becomes Pea**** Butterfly.

  • Earlene (unregistered)

    265

  • zoomslot88 (unregistered) in reply to MadJo@Work
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