• (cs)

    In Troy, Michigan, on I-75, exit 69 is Big Beaver Road. I swear I'm not making this up.

  • (cs) in reply to dcardani
    dcardani:
    In Troy, Michigan, on I-75, exit 69 is Big Beaver Road. I swear I'm not making this up.

    That must be where Helen lives.

  • Fatt Moley (unregistered) in reply to bif
    bif:
    About a mile from where I live, there is a body of water called Beaver Lake. Surrounding this are a number of streets and roads with names like "Beaver Lake Road", "Beaver Lake Ave", "Beaver Road", "Beaver Lake Street" - basically any combination of Street, Road, Lane, etc. that you can combine with Beaver Lake and Beaver. I'd estimate several hundred addresses.

    Oh, and don't forget about the store where you buy booze: Beaver Liquors.

  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to KattMan
    KattMan:
    An example, Here in Indiana we just had a law passed and go into affect that states that you can no longer use the term "Special Needs" you are now required to say "Gifted".

    Maybe it's "gifted" as in Greek gift.

  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to Loren Pechtel
    Loren Pechtel:
    But that's only half the joke. Remember who is VP? *DICK* Chaney.

    I recently saw this on a banner held up by anti-war protesters:

    Practice abstinence. No Bush. No Dick. Pull out now!

  • Michigan Commuter (unregistered) in reply to dcardani
    dcardani:
    In Troy, Michigan, on I-75, exit 69 is Big Beaver Road. I swear I'm not making this up.

    I can also verify this - I commute by this exit (coming and going, tee hee hee) twice a day.

    Funny part is, there is a big bend (tee hee) in the road so I-75 goes parallel to Big Beaver that I SWEAR is only there to increase the distance so that this fortuitious circumstance would happen and that Big Beaver wouldn't be Exit 68.

  • joe shmoe (unregistered)

    I Seriously Hate Bank of America

  • Slutty Squirrel (unregistered)

    Mother's maiden name:

    Answer: Wanker

    So, BOA would be in trouble if they ever wanted to expand into the Austrian market, where this surname is quite common..

  • BOACust (unregistered) in reply to Firethorn

    Some people have misunderstood what the SiteKey is and how it works. When creating a new account, a BoA customer initially selects an image out of a gallery and then types a short description of that image that he will be able to associate with that image later - these two pieces of data together comprise the SiteKey.

    However, the BoA Customer never has to type in the description they assigned to a SiteKey or select the SiteKey image from a selection after that initial process in order to log in. He will type in the userid (without the password), BoA shows the SiteKey image and description that were set up when the account was created, and if the user recognizes both the image and the description, then he is supposed to proceed to enter the password. The intent was faudulent site detection for the user, not additional passwording protection. e.g. if a user clicks a link in an email and the "BoA" site either doesn't show any SiteKey or shows the wrong image and/or description, he isn't supposed to enter the password.

    A phisher would never need the SiteKey - if they have your username and password they wouldn't care what the real BoA site showed, they would type in the uid/pwd and log into your bank account. It isn't an additional password that is required to log into the site. In fact, I'm sure many BoA users never pay any attention to the SiteKey and as far as they can tell BoA just moved from a single page with userid & pw input fields to separating the uid and pw inputs to two separate pages, requiring a button click to move to the "password" page.

    Whether you think this method of fraud detection is successful is a different matter.

  • Camden (unregistered) in reply to bif
    bif:
    Also, a quick check of the phonebook reveals that Beaver is actually a real last name, not terribly common, but there's a couple in my phone book (although they appear to be related, based on the addresses).

    Yeah, I had a house-mate in grad school with the last name "Beavers". Even worse, her first name was "Candace", so of course she was known by one and all as "Candy Beavers". Some parents really need supervision...

  • jimmy (unregistered) in reply to Michigan Commuter
    Michigan Commuter:
    dcardani:
    In Troy, Michigan, on I-75, exit 69 is Big Beaver Road. I swear I'm not making this up.

    I can also verify this - I commute by this exit (coming and going, tee hee hee) twice a day.

    Funny part is, there is a big bend (tee hee) in the road so I-75 goes parallel to Big Beaver that I SWEAR is only there to increase the distance so that this fortuitious circumstance would happen and that Big Beaver wouldn't be Exit 68.

    I can verify also. I worked on Maple Rd in Troy, and took the Big Beaver exit every morning. Made me smile every time!

  • vDave (unregistered) in reply to DaveAronson
    DaveAronson:
    > Beaver, Beaver, Beaver, Beaver, Beaver, Beaver, Beaver, Beaver, Beaver, Beaver, > Beaver, Beaver, Beaver, Beaver, Beaver, Beaver, Beaver, Beaver, Beaver, Beaver,

    SNAAAAAAKE!

    ...and I was this close to posting Mushroom, mushroom! and had just decided not to, before reading your post.

    Glad i'm not the only depraved one here... =)

    -dave-
  • Lovemaking PC (unregistered) in reply to Slutty Squirrel

    Actually, the joke is on a company called "Anker" (meaning Anchor). They are a Bakery in Vienna (Wien, in German it's written with a W) and wanted vanity license plates for their cars. They got a "W" for Wien, a "-" and "Anker"

    I even found the image, you have to scroll down a bit: http://sofa.digitalien.org/sieben/7bpraschl/names.html

    The PC-thing reminds me to a Terry-Prattchet novel, where some brutes are forced to say "lovemaking", when they curse.

  • ELIZA (unregistered) in reply to Firethorn
    Firethorn:
    Not to mention that censorship is the essentially the reason we have this problem to begin with.

    We wouldn't need to use the name of a dam building semi-aquatic mammal for certain part of the female anatomy if it wasn't for stuff like this.

    Also, filters that are wide enough that they also block a common north american animal are obviously to the point of loosing effectiveness.

    Let's see:thesaurus.com:prostitute B-girl, bag, bawd, bimbo, blower, broad, call girl, camp follower, cat, chicken, chippie, concubine, courtesan, fallen woman, floozy, harlot, hooker, hostess, hustler, loose woman, midnight cowboy, model, moll, nymphomaniac, painted woman, party girl, pickup, pink pants, pro, scarlet woman, slut, streetwalker, strumpet, tart, tomato, tramp, trollop, white slave, whore, working girl

    Now, there are a some like 'slut' that more implies 'easy sex' than 'sells sex for money', but wow!

    By the same token if you're trying to eliminate written references to a sex trade worker, you'd have to eliminate at least two animals, a vegetable, a confection, and two legitimate p*******ns / ED: word for prostitution */.

    And language would still adopt.

    You missed: bdband bdcast plastic bgs, paper bgs, packing one's b*gs pop-tts™ (a breakfast food which other tarts presumably are like) innocent terms like po basketballers, coders et al (or is a po developer an attractive coder hired as a company benefit for the other programmers?) the word p****n itself (for sex-work as a career, as in Mrs Warren's Pn) jb, cl, s****e (as in sing one's car) (for the individual assignations, as in s****e a p****e) your word for ute (if you can't stomach that or utility, go back to Henry Ford's Kangaroo-chasers) c****n c****es™ (another foodstuff, speaking of which I had them last night: mmmm, tastes like c****n) a psychiatric disease (as in clinical n****a, though I suppose they might tend to become pes) probably at least two colours given the way we mutilate phrases (just as maid replaced maidservant in all but formal discourse, p-**s will vert (if you say pea is the singular of peas, you can't point fingers about me mutilating the language) to pk and st will replace s-**n, and what about s**-**l, oh, and I heard of a woman who was a real rose-pants, so it might only be a matter of time before rose goes as well) the innocent adjectives pd, fn, l*e, and w**g, the noun py, and the letter b followed by a hyphen, unless you want to block their use modifying all human nouns and their pluralisations individually (videlicit woman, man, men, girls, lady, et al) so as not to let offensive terms like py boy (who else would women hire as entertainment at stagess pies, girls) through where they could, you know, cause offence. Oh, I almost forgot, the word master and its gender-modified sistren such as mistress are also used as words for prostitutes in obscure sections of the BDSM community (not only must we talk about se drives we also have to talk about mr drives), as is the word submit as one of their terms for mating, and once the censors find out about them, we'll have to talk about light s**hes and s***h statements in our code.

  • ELIZA (unregistered) in reply to ELIZA

    PS, for those who will inevitably ask, peas is not a plural, it is an uncountable noun, just like wheat, maize, rice, and penne (for all of you philistines out there, penne is a form of pasta, also an uncountable). Also, the usage of vert is that one verts to version 2.0 and reverts to 1.3 if 2.0 has a problem.

  • neminem (unregistered) in reply to Fatt Moley
    Fatt Moley:
    Oh, and don't forget about the store where you buy booze: Beaver Liquors.
    And, yet another example of a comment that nobody else will probably ever see, but that I feel compelled to post anyway:

    Near where I went to college, there was a store actually named "Mountain Liquor". Sadly, they've apparently renamed it since then to "Mountainview Liquor and Deli", which isn't nearly as funny.

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