Use of the word "P0RN" for display of pics of inst
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Hiw? By replacing the 'o' with a zero, 0. Thus p0rn works. Well, it does for some people anyway.Martin Milner wrote:Hiw did the word in the title slip through the filter? Is the filter case sensitive?
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Lost photo - never mind.Dale wrote:There seems to be some question about why, of the entire range of possibilities, I would have selected the word "lichen." This is your opportunity to explain my behavior to me because, frankly, I don't have a clue.
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The O is a zero.Martin Milner wrote:Hiw did the word in the title slip through the filter? Is the filter case sensitive?
I've just read this thread through and my mind is very confused. Mainly because of all the points where people haven't altered the word p0rn and it's been replaced with lichen. So now everyone seems to be talking about lichen being replaced with itself.
Relax, Cynth. It's just a burger. Topped with lichen.Cynth wrote:Then as people started responding, we grasped that apparently people were using the word "lichen" for these photos, even though we had never noticed it. And so, although relieved to find that Dale wasn't going crazy, we then started thinking we were going crazy for not having noticed this.
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I forgot about the new philosophy!fearfaoin wrote:Relax, Cynth. It's just a burger. Topped with lichen.Cynth wrote:Then as people started responding, we grasped that apparently people were using the word "lichen" for these photos, even though we had never noticed it. And so, although relieved to find that Dale wasn't going crazy, we then started thinking we were going crazy for not having noticed this.
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I forgot about the new philosophy!fearfaoin wrote:Relax, Cynth. It's just a burger. Topped with lichen.Cynth wrote:Then as people started responding, we grasped that apparently people were using the word "lichen" for these photos, even though we had never noticed it. And so, although relieved to find that Dale wasn't going crazy, we then started thinking we were going crazy for not having noticed this.
Exactly. See, at first it was incongruous, irrational, absurd. The idea of replacing the word "lichen" with "lichen". There's just no connection there. Definitely disturbing. Like:chrisoff wrote:I've just read this thread through and my mind is very confused. Mainly because of all the points where people haven't altered the word p0rn and it's been replaced with lichen. So now everyone seems to be talking about lichen being replaced with itself
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Then, when the computer makes it look like you are replacing a word with itself! So then it isn't incongruous but very definitely confusing and disorienting. It is ABSURD!!!! That is why it is so funny. It is totally insane, irrational. It is the ultimate non-sense. We should enjoy these situations when they come up !
I don't mean to be suggesting that the idea of replacing "lichen" with "lichen" was crazy because it wasn't. It solved a problem. But the idea just happened to lend itself beautifully to absurdity when it was discussed.
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Hey! I thought this thread was about "p0rn," not "prawn...."
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AHA! Months and months later, I finally get to the bottom of why there are no pictures of various bore fungi and/or mosses in the Flute Lichen thread.
I'm so disappointed.
(And I'm so slow on the uptake!)
I'm so disappointed.
(And I'm so slow on the uptake!)
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Good point, edited out, feel free to change my quote below.
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That would make a most cool bumpersticker in the best Dada tradition.I.D.10-t wrote:Why do I want a bumpersticer that says “lichen is not lichen!”
But what I want to know is, now that I see the cutesie way you got past the word filter, how does that affect our "friends" the spambots?
After all, it's the moderators that have to do the cleanup, in case you care.
Never mind that: the question of fouling one's nest comes to mind. In case anyone cares.
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