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I'm trying really hard to figure out what's bad about 'Lightwater Country Park'

It says it above that group:

Innocuous strings which may be blocked by profanity filters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem)

I remember the struggles I had trying to book a hotel at Essex Junction in Vermont to visit IBM. Netnanny had serious issues with that town (name). I otoh thought it and the people working at the IBM ASIC plant was very nice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_Junction,_Vermont

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Ligh twat er country park.

("Country" is not obscene, but Shakespeare makes "country matters" into an obscene reference in Hamlet. There are a lot of innuendoes in the classics)

I'm sad about how many literature teachers give Shakespeare's works a treatment as dry as unbuttered toast.

Some of the best teaching of Shakespeare I've seen used the actual lines mixed with a little extemporaneity to better get the intent across. "Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance. Come on, stop being so emo! There are like a million other girls out there."

I figured that one out, but --- evaluate? mocha? expression?

mocha has a naughty german word in its middle, I'm fairly sure.

As a German native speaker, I'm unable to figure it out.

No it doesn't. I believe it can be used for Javascript injections like 'eval' as 'mocha' is/was common a test framework. At least that's the ostensible reason Yahoo replaced 'eval' with 'review', 'mocha' with 'expresso', and 'expression' to 'statement' way back in 2002 [0].

[0] https://www.newscientist.com//article/dn2546-email-security-...

"espresso", not "expresso".

"expresso" with "mocha", surely.

those puzzled me too

The commit message explains that the terms are verbatim from Wikipedia [1].

Wikipedia [2] attributes it to a Yahoo email filter "which automatically replaced Javascript-related strings with alternate versions, to prevent the possibility of cross-site scripting in HTML email".

[1] https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/com...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

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