No jokes about the family tartan

[sigma7]

The American Family Association runs a site called OneNewsNow. I suppose it's your run-o-the-mill news aggregator site with one heretofore unremarkable quirk: an automated script that, for style purposes I guess, replaces the word "gay" with "homosexual." Which I don't necessarily see as an unreasonable decision. From a technical standpoint, though, it's not a good idea for such a context-insensitive filter -- particularly if you're world-record-breaking sprinter Tyson Gay. Then things get a little weird.

Bonus: From the story Wolves trade Mayo to Memphis for Love (which is pretty awesome in and of itself): "Memphis Grizzlies backers hit the hay hoping that Kevin Love would open things up for Rudy Homosexual in the frontcourt."

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[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, someone got paid to come up with that list. Or several someones. ("Hey guys! 'Kumquat,' yes or no?" No, as it turns out.) Funny, "INSEST" is on the list; "INCEST" is not. "SHAWTYPIMP" is, "SHAWTY" is not. Consistency, people!

Interestingly that list would have to be modified for use with the NHL to accommodate my favorite Czech hockey star, Miroslav Satan, who seems to have been given the (usually-arbitrary) database number of 666 by ESPN, SI and Yahoo Sports.

I love life when it's this unrepentantly weird.