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...
“I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny.”
http://habitatchronicles.com/2007/03/the-untold-history-of-t...
Edit: and alas, at Blekko they never let me ship an April-fool's "Did you mean: Mother trucking son of a blintz?" module. No sense of humor.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
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.
However, players figured out a language to encode friend codes using speed chat phrases. So you would send a series of speed chat messages, the other player would send some back, and then you'd have each other's friend codes.
Oh wow, it's really that Douglas Crockford. Embarrassed to say I only knew of his Javascript work.