Overzealous profanity filters

[MadMike]

Exactly! You would be amazed at the number of words that have c-o-c-k somewhere in them.

That was one of the words that would get caught in our filter. I was in a rare mood once, and I made a post that ended up looking something like, "Sorry, didn't mean to get so ****y. Guess I can't even **** my gun. ****-a-doodle-doo!"

There used to be a guy at my job whose last name would have come out looking like "****lin."

[Fire_on_High]

Here I had a post all typed out about how a side effect of any swear filter I created would be to force correct spelling... when I realized that would wreak havoc with names. Oh well.

Back in the days of yore I used to occasionally run an IRC script my ex had picked out for me that featured spell correction. At the time there was a reg in my channel named Tathaenhi; the script dutifully corrected it to "Thataenhi"

[Ginger Tea]

How about replacing slang with medical terms?
Penistail dress
Peniser Spaniel
Don't be such a Donkey Hole (I know it's not quite the same)

Hell I got my Pirate name as one of my supervisors got offended by the word Pubic, granted in the context of the overheard convo I was having I did mean lady hair, but fuck me, my beard is nothing but pubic hair, so is whats under my arms and those few sprouts by my nipples.

me = me
cd = Captain dickhead
via text and phone some days after

me "I've got a Pirate name."
cd "Really what is it?"
me "you will have to guess the first two words, blank blank the pirate."
cd "blank blank the pirate?"
me "yeah second blank is easy."

I might finish off the conversation including his failure to get the first word.

edit:
DonkeyDonkeyin's Creed
and c u next Tuesday / See you next Tuesday, if I didnt post this a few pages back, I now think of werewolf porn.

[SkullKing]

personally I like Wrath of Heroes' solution: Optional filter.

You can turn it on and off at will.

[Lachrymose]

Penistail dress

Bwahahaha

[Andara Bledin]

So.... "Going off half-penised" would be a phrase, then?

^-.-^

[MadMike]

So.... "Going off half-penised" would be a phrase, then?

Don't get penisy!

[Lachrymose]

I'm not really much of a Family Guy fan these days, but I loved Blue Harvest. And that line had me rolling.

[Hyena Dandy]

I remember on a forum for a group of trolls I used to be a part of, moderators occasionally got in a playful mood and decided to censor things to random things.

We always had the Hanpenis dresses and whatnot, but sometimes we'd do other stuff, too.

For example, change every vowel to a y for a day. Or switch around our ends of sentences. Questions stayed the same, exclamation points became ellipses, that sort of thing.

[Ginger Tea]

Fuck censoryatch

[Lace Neil Singer]

Exactly! You would be amazed at the number of words that have c-o-c-k somewhere in them.

Worse when the word "ho" or "ass" is being censored... XD One such victim of an overzealous profanity filter was the word "grasshopper", or, as the censor would have it, gr*****pper. Note; cuz the admin was American, you could use the word "arse" with impunity.

[Salted Grump]

I have to admit, having spent a lot of time over at SA as a bored lurker (read: Let's play subforum), some of their censor program's substitutions if you haven't registered are uproariously funny.

'Gently Caress' = 'Fuck'
'Enjoyable Human Being' = 'Fag'
'Making GBS threads' = 'shitting'
'rear end in a top hat' = 'asshole'

ANd so on; it could be argued that lurking in the thread is funnier than logging in, simply because the substitutions are, while contextually accurate, designed to make your brain take a backstep and go 'wait, what?'