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Re: Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

#111

Post by travisgriggs » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 4:39 AM UTC

#BADA55 is brown.

Giggle.

Re: Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

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Post by phabricator » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 4:39 AM UTC

idontpost wrote: post #87

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tangentially related, and equally juvenile, I own the telephone number in Australia: 08 80087355 Still gives me a chuckle. Grow up.

RIP your voicemail

It's 2022: RIP the concept of voicemail

Re: Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

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Post by phabricator » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 4:41 AM UTC

Thanks for making an interesting article and only plugging your site at the end. I don't mind submarine ads if I can learn something from them.

Re: Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

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Post by techbelly » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 4:46 AM UTC

Nicely done. This is a fun idea that comes up time and again.

I think I might have made one of the first implementations way back in 2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20111117062015/techbelly.com/sem...

And someone quickly made a better version inspired by it here: http://lexadecimal.pixielabs.io/

Re: Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

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Post by bee_rider » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 5:13 AM UTC

failTide wrote: post #105

bee_rider wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "dirty" use seems pretty silly (sounds like something out of a crass 80's movie or something), but I can't really imagine using it in a non-dirty manner either. I mean I know people have hunted and trapped beavers, but when the capture them they don't just, like, thwack them with a giant cleaver, right? Would ruin the pelt if nothing else.

Not sure if you're messing with me, but Beaver Cleaver is the name of a famous sitcom character. Awesome show IMO, you can watch the entire series for free on archive.org https://archive.org/details/leave.it.to.beaver.complete.seri...

I wasn't -- I was not aware that his last name was Cleaver, haha.

Re: Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

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Post by turtledove » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 5:28 AM UTC

Found a slur in the dataset, not sure if these are programmatically generated (I assume so) but may want to consider filtering those out.

Re: Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

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Post by langsoul-com » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 5:32 AM UTC

Reminds me about when people had to generate a string of random characters but take anything out that's close to a slur.

Forgot what the end result was, no vowels and numbers?

Re: Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

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Post by turtledove » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 5:34 AM UTC

failTide wrote: post #105

bee_rider wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "dirty" use seems pretty silly (sounds like something out of a crass 80's movie or something), but I can't really imagine using it in a non-dirty manner either. I mean I know people have hunted and trapped beavers, but when the capture them they don't just, like, thwack them with a giant cleaver, right? Would ruin the pelt if nothing else.

Not sure if you're messing with me, but Beaver Cleaver is the name of a famous sitcom character. Awesome show IMO, you can watch the entire series for free on archive.org https://archive.org/details/leave.it.to.beaver.complete.seri...

TIL. That said, I'm sure if you polled most folks these days, beaver would mean animal or women's genitalia, and not leave it to beaver.

Given the relatively common crass meaning for beaver, beaver cleaver sure sounds like a sexual innuendo to me.

Re: Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

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Post by gtm1260 » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 5:35 AM UTC

Ya'll are missing my favorite one, although I guess its technically two words. "Dad CEO": #dadce0

Re: Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words

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Post by joshuahaglund » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 5:45 AM UTC

turtledove wrote: post #116

Found a slur in the dataset, not sure if these are programmatically generated (I assume so) but may want to consider filtering those out.

For the curious, I think they mean decimal values 16408693 and 16410119. Which have other archaic meanings but their primary modern meanings are a slur. 16410349 is apparently British slang for exhausted, so maybe gets a pass?