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List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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Post by minimaxir »

stevenmays wrote: post #21

Not to be confused with the big list of naughty strings... https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

Someone tried to PR a large amount of curse words which I vetoed because it was redundant. Which is why I'm happy to see a more comprehensive list. :)

Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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Post by greglindahl »

jejones3141 wrote: post #49
jasoncartwright wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, the Scunthorpe problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

Yes. I used to frequent a message board that implemented a really dumb profanity filter. It got to the point that its users would greet one another in face to face meetings with "Hecko!"

I see people on dating websites writing c* cktail with the '* '. Not nearly as funny as Hecko, though!

Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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Post by c3534l »

Pitarou wrote: post #38
cormullion wrote: post #8

Hilarious. See if you can find: - a word from the 10 commandments - a great jazz album from Herbie Hancock - a James Bond film - the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination

What a fun and educational quiz! Thank you. And the answers are: - a word from the 10 commandments ass , of course. An easy start. - a great jazz album from Herbie Hancock Today I learned that Herbie Hancock is a jazz musician who made an album called Mr Hands. I also learned that there is a video of a man being buggered by a horse called Mr Hands. Thank you for enriching my life. - a James Bond film And at this poin…

Mr. Hands died in that video, hence why it's kind of legendary.

Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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Post by Tenhundfeld »

teddyh wrote: post #9

For anyone thinking of using this: You will never be able to make people not say “bad” things. “ I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny. ” http://habitatchronicles.com/2007/03/the-untold-history-of-t...

So true. People will always find a way to talk euphemistically. And on the other end of spectrum, you can't really filter out borderline-offensive phrases.

Reminds me of a system I worked on where we generated temporary passwords for tens of thousands of invitations to a big event. Somebody tried to be clever and generate "user-friendly" passwords by combining words from a public 1st grade vocab list. It seemed like overkill for a temporary password, which had to be changed upon initial login, but whatevs, we had extra time on the project. It looked good in testing.

Within hours of sending out the first batch of invitations, we started getting complaints of people "not comfortable" with their passwords. I don't remember all of them, but some great examples were things like "donkeybanana1014", "drunkgod9488", "devilboy4593". It wasn't a huge PR problem, mostly just caused some laughs and little support scrambling, but I filed it away as yet another example of someone getting burnt by trying to be clever.

Re: List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words

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Post by peterwwillis »

punkcoder wrote: post #16

George Carlin would be proud...

I think he'd be disappointed. Here is his extended list of dirty words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSlbEq0roEM#t=35s or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0ee4wqZvf8 (try the closed captions button!)

I'm especially fond of bearded clam, and i've actually used 'gleet' in a poem.

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