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Post by Mark 138 on Jul 30, 2006 1:04:16 GMT -5
No, not that guy who keeps breaking the rules and getting banned. I mean a nice, friendly gentleman who has the unfortunate bad luck of having his name forever associated in the American lexicon with a part of the male anatomy. I'm talking about good ol' d!ck.
Imagine if you will that your name is Robert, but everyone calls you Bob. Everyone likes a Bob. A nice, friendly name. But what if someone decided one day that Bob should be the new euphimism to describe the female genitalia. Then everyone starts accusing you of being a Bob if you don't want to do something dangerous. Men start saying things like "hey, did you see Sharon Stone's Bob in Basic Instinct 2?" (don't worry, no one else did either.). And guys start going out on the weekend looking for Bob. Before you know it, this message board won't even allow your name to appear without being changed by the "filters", put in place to keep "bad words" from polluting our youths minds.
When that happens I guess we can say Robert Orton Jr. was being a complete richard when he got hammered and went out on the balcony wearing nothing but his cowboy hat, exposing his richard to the world. Meanwhile, Richard Butkus may have been one of the toughest SOBs (if I use initials the filter won't catch it but anyone old enough to read knows what it means) to ever play in the NFL, but he sure looked like a robert in those commercials he did a while back.
So free d!ck and let his name be read correctly and filter-free. Come one, don't be such a bob.
(please not the satire and sarcasm here and realize I know the mods have no power over that filter. I just felt the need to illustrate the absurdity of "bad language".)
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Post by Chris Ingersoll on Jul 30, 2006 13:01:55 GMT -5
LOL, cute stuff.
Seriously, though: if there were any way for the filter to distinguish between the name and the slang, we would use it. :-\
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Post by offspring515 on Jul 30, 2006 13:53:32 GMT -5
I went to high school with a family with the last name Head. I graduated with a young lady named Amanda Head. Her younger brother graduated the next year. His name? Richard.
I still, to this day, wonder what his parent's were thinking.
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Post by Chris Ingersoll on Jul 30, 2006 16:09:41 GMT -5
That should be grounds for having your kids taken from you.
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Post by blueraider1 on Jul 30, 2006 16:30:47 GMT -5
i went to school with with a guy named head.
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Post by canadianpittbull on Jul 30, 2006 17:27:19 GMT -5
OMG!!! Mark that killed me! That is so true but funny at the same time! Thanks for making my day! ;D
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Post by Darth Turkish on Jul 30, 2006 21:36:46 GMT -5
I went to high school with a family with the last name Head. I graduated with a young lady named Amanda Head. Her younger brother graduated the next year. His name? Richard. I still, to this day, wonder what his parent's were thinking. I believe a few grades ahead of me there was a Richard Head.  Worse than Thomas Thomas, Lemonjello and Orangejello, but not better than Sh!thead Smith. (pronounced Sh!th- eed). Yup that one really exist! My good friend pulled out his yearbook and showed me.  |
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Post by Dave on Jul 31, 2006 0:51:45 GMT -5
One of my friends wants to name a future child Richard Edward. She wants to call him Dick Ed when he gets in trouble.
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Post by Werner Mueck on Jul 31, 2006 1:17:43 GMT -5
Kids in school used to call me "Weiner", I guess I'm the German version of Richard. Glad the filter doesn't know German  Fun post Mark. |
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Post by Trent Lawless on Jul 31, 2006 4:11:03 GMT -5
A couple friends of mine one night in the days before call waiting and in the early stages of post-21 alcoholic splendor ( ) went looking through the phone book at about 1:30 am, on the hunt for funny names. Their first idea was to find a "Harold (aka Harry) Ball," but they settled for Richard Ball. My friend Steve calls the guy up. When the poor unfortunately-named sucker sleepily answers, Steve says, "Is this D--- Ball?" After hearing an affirmative answer, Steve simply drawls, "Aaaaaaallllll right!" and hangs up. Maybe you had to be there, but it kills me and my friends to this day to remember this when we get together. There was also a professor at my college named Donald Duckson. Never found out if he had a sense of humor about it, though. |
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Post by gwffantrav on Jul 31, 2006 9:08:02 GMT -5
We used to prank a guy in Louisville all the time named Chick Livers
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Post by Chris Ingersoll on Jul 31, 2006 9:42:45 GMT -5
but not better than Sh!theed Smith. (pronounced Sh!th- eed). Yup that one really exist! My good friend pulled out his yearbook and showed me. (I'm going to assume that the name's real spelling should have ended in "-head".)  Once again: totally resonable grounds for having your kids taken from you, and in this case probably your right to reproduce as well. There's simply no excuse for that nonsense. I had a guy I used to work with whose family name was Read (pronounced in the present tense, not the past tense). He had a brother named WIlliam, which usually became "Willy" (not so bad, but still an inconvenience during childhood, I bet); he had also considered naming a hypothetical son of his "Kant" (as in Emanuel, for the philosophy fans out there), which would have been wrong both in the "Kant Read" respect as well as what you know the other kids would have called him once they learned a particular piece of vulgar slang. |
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Post by Darth Turkish on Jul 31, 2006 14:10:34 GMT -5
but not better than Sh!theed Smith. (pronounced Sh!th- eed). Yup that one really exist! My good friend pulled out his yearbook and showed me. (I'm going to assume that the name's real spelling should have ended in "-head".) Yeah, lemme fix that! |
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Post by offspring515 on Aug 1, 2006 12:49:40 GMT -5
I also went to school with a girl named Aereola. She was from Romania.
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Post by GrumpyBigBee on Aug 1, 2006 13:17:11 GMT -5
for some reason this reminded me of the "dont be a dick" commercials about drinking and driving. =)
"See Dick drink, see Dick drive, see Dick die! DONT BE A DICK!"
classic!!!
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Post by Mark 138 on Aug 1, 2006 13:40:54 GMT -5
See! There's my point, Grump! You can't even write the man's name because of these bob filters!
I know you didn't type "Richard" there!
They need to quit being bobs and let d-ck go!
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Post by Chris Ingersoll on Aug 1, 2006 14:13:29 GMT -5
See! There's my point, Grump! You can't even write the man's name because of these bob filters! You could; you just have to know how*. Although it's still technically bypassing the filter, the "name exception" would apply. *And no, that's not information I'm about to advertise.  |
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Post by Darth Turkish on Aug 1, 2006 15:25:13 GMT -5
let me try: Richard
edit 1: crap that did not work
one more time
edit 2: Nope. Silly
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Post by Mark 138 on Aug 1, 2006 17:32:04 GMT -5
It's not hard to figure out how to do it. I just bypassed the filter two different ways. Of course I edited them out. Maybe I'll go do this in my results page of the fed forum so I can get banned and get a whole bunch of hits out of it.
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Post by canadianpittbull on Aug 1, 2006 17:56:23 GMT -5
Then you can add this thread into a storyline and get even more hits! ;D |
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IPPON!!
Fun post Mark.
