randomly generated obscenities

Bradley M. Kuhn bkuhn@ebb.org
Tue, 16 Feb 1999 01:01:39 -0500


Thus spoke Kragen Sitaker:

> One possible solution (from _Programming As If People Mattered_, which
> Zippy told me was the most boring book he'd ever read, but I thought
> was most amusing)

I love that book.  :)

> is to simply not use vowels in your randomly-generated strings.

Still:

mthr fckng sht

still looks mildly offensive.  :)
 
> (You can probably think of more than seven four-letter words you
> wouldn't want to appear in your magic cookies.)

:)

BTW, don't use hex numbers either.  They can offend vegetarians [0] easily:

0xdeadbeef

:)

[0] Although, as a vegetarian, I must admit that doesn't offend me.  :)

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