Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Fart on Pet

English teachers at Ben Franklin Junior High in Fargo, only a block away from this sign, must be patting themselves on the back. Some students actually paid attention on anagram day:

I'm not sure what they did with the extra 'R' when rearranging 'APT FOR RENT', but they did 'fix' both sides the same way.

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Automated Censors and Context

It could be paralysis, but given the asterisks, the struck-out words must be 'anal,' yielding 'analysis' for those of us without as dirty a mind as this computerized censor.
It reminds me of when Fark censored "...their egg in.." because in that phrase is a series of letters that, when spelled backwards, is a slur against african-americans. it's hard for me to see without actually retyping it backwards...and someone had to think that might happen and be worth censoring to write a program that checks for it.

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