DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Testing. 1, 2, 3... => Topic started by: Mysterious Benefactor on April 01, 2005, 08:54:55 PM
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Please read this post if you haven't already:
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We've noticed that recently several people have been using "creative" spelling for certain words in their posts. However, there's really no need to do that. ...
Thanks. :)
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Please read this post if you haven't already:
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We've noticed that recently several people have been using "creative" spelling for certain words in their posts. However, there's really no need to do that. ...
Thanks. :)
I think creative spellings are like the bleeping over naughty words on TV. As Sharon Osbourne once observed, and the South Park film proved, the attempts to hide the vulgarisms make them seem funnier than they actually are.
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We've noticed that recently several people have been using "creative" spelling for certain words in their posts. However, there's really no need to do that. ...
Holy shit! Now THAT'S good to know, ain't it! ;D
- Foul-mouthed CLC
:-X
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Back in the seventies, a major Milwaukee newspaper employed one of the first primitive computerized systems for editing stories, making sure that no naughty words slipped by accidentally. And then a problem arose. In the Sunday edition, there was a column in the entertainment section which listed the top-requested songs in the Milwaukee area. The name of the column was Milwaukee's Hit Parade. For some reason, the computer program kept kicking the title out, refusing to have it go to print. The befuddled editors kept scratching their heads until they finally noticed why. See if you can find in the name what the computer did, but the editors initially did not.
Gerard
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See if you can find in the name what the computer did, but the editors initially did not.
I see it.
How appropriate it would be for today's top 40. ^-^
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I see it too... It was funny once you actually saw it and you are right Dom that would be a perfect title for today's top 40.
FireRose
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Back in the seventies, a major Milwaukee newspaper employed one of the first primitive computerized systems for editing stories, making sure that no naughty words slipped by accidentally.
What a, um, crappy program. Primitive is right.
How appropriate it would be for today's top 40.
Oh, I don't know - there's still a lot of good music being produced today. But that's a discussion for a completely different forum. ;)
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Back in the seventies, a major Milwaukee newspaper employed one of the first primitive computerized systems for editing stories, making sure that no naughty words slipped by accidentally.
What a, um, crappy program. Primitive is right.
It's the same way now I think. On my board having to do with medical disasters and problems with the medical system, I tried to do a thread on someone's "Spoon Theory". The "Spoon Theory" is a way someone came up with to explain to well people what being sick long-term is like. I got this from www.butyoudontlooksick.com (http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com). I reccommend that everyone in the world spend some time there.
Every time I tried to make this thread, it kept coming out "The Sthingy Theory". It said "sthingy" in the link too, so the link went noplace. It took a while for it to hit me what was happening. At first I thought "sthingy" must just be some term I'm unfamiliar with.
It may take you a moment or two, but I doubt I need to tell you what MY board was doing to me... though the swear word in question isn't one of the most common ones, and they chose a peculiar euphemism. In the end I had to avoid the word "spoon" altogether. Funny world, isn't it?
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I found the spot to change my list of censored words on my board. "Spoon" is no longer vorboten. I changed the list of "thingy"s to various euphemisms and when I'm done, anyone can go to my board and swear just to see what weirdities pop up instead.
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Hey Trask. ;D
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Where'd Millicent go, anyway? I lured her here from a Gilmore Girls board, and now she's not even there anymore. But then, the show stopped being good this season. Lots of people bialed, unfortunately. I don't need a show to be currently good or even currently on the air.
Oh I almost forgot.... f**k. That sure felt weird. I'm not sure I'm doing that again.
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Well, turns out you can't curse after all.
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Back in the seventies, a major Milwaukee newspaper employed one of the first primitive computerized systems for editing stories, making sure that no naughty words slipped by accidentally. And then a problem arose. In the Sunday edition, there was a column in the entertainment section which listed the top-requested songs in the Milwaukee area. The name of the column was Milwaukee's Hit Parade. For some reason, the computer program kept kicking the title out, refusing to have it go to print. The befuddled editors kept scratching their heads until they finally noticed why. See if you can find in the name what the computer did, but the editors initially did not.
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Ok, I'll admit I'm naive---I don't see it! Can someone solve the mystery? I want my halo to slip, too! [angel12]
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Milwaukee's Hit Parade
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That's what I figured, except surely there is a space between the s and the H, so I don't understand why that would happen.
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That's what I figured, except surely there is a space between the s and the H, so I don't understand why that would happen.
Because whoever wrote the routine to catch censorable words wasn't particularly adept at programming and s/he didn't account for spaces and/or define a word adequately enough. ::) And as I'm sure we've all realized only too well by now, computers do exactly what we tell them to do - not what we really want them to do. [wink2] Everything has to be spelled out specifically or one can end up with really strange results. :D
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All parades used to be like that...that's why the street-sweepers came last. Hint: horses.