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The classic Mcsweeney's for the HN crowd is "E-mail Addresses That Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone"

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-mail-addresses-that-wo...

My father in law has email address that is about his small dog. He's Scottish and his dog growls a lot. So his address is weegrrrr.

Oh let me tell you the fun of spelling that one over the phone. He's also not the most patient man in the world either :-)

Tell him to be careful. The chinese government might try to re-educate his email address.

How so?

Took me a while admittedly (probably a "me problem") but it's a word play of "Uyghur".

The Chinese government has been rounding up Uyghurs (pronounced like we-gir) to reeducate them. And the government really does not like it when people talk about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_Chin...

I was considering changing my name to Mark Withasea because I keep getting asked so many times "Is that Mark with a K, or a C?"

I love that gmail was only 4 months old when this came out.

"The WiFi password is fourwordsalluppercase. One word, all lowercase."

lol, that's what I'd call a dense piece of text:

(header)

  [email protected]
  [email protected]
  [email protected]
  [email protected]
  [email protected]

(end article)

Is that being injected by an extension or something? It's perfectly readable to me.

It's address (de)obfuscation via javascript, meant to prevent harvesting of spam targets via simple scraping. The HTML plain-text reads what I wrote, there's a javascript hook to replace the placeholders with actual e-mail addresses. But the amount of substance on that page did not merit a reload with javascript enabled.

During the dot-com boom I registered dotcodotuk.co.uk and set up dotcodotuk@dotcodotuk.co.uk. Strangely the novelty of this wore off very quickly.

Occasionally on here is user fanf with email address dot@dotat.at

i laughed at that for five straight minutes thank you

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