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  Re: Lavender Brick Society
 
(...) Seriously, can someone explain to me why pics of the GA's hair color always appear to have been altered in Photoshop? :-) JOHN (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people, FTX)
 
  Re: Profanity again
 
(...) That and without a way to edit posts, typos can make it look like you swore. I found a few accidental typos while searching for swears the other day. Things like someone who misspelled "cut" by inserting an extra letter. Also you've got to (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
 
  Re: Profanity again
 
(...) In practice I wouldn't have a problem with it, because I generally don't resort to profanity and wouldn't therefore have to worry about any word-substitution in my posts. But one dilemma is that it would imply that LUGNET as an entity is (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
 
  Re: Profanity again
 
(...) The odd part, however, is that it makes it difficult to talk about various clone brands. For instance: "I MegaBloks hate stupid Megabloks" but the best part is, not just curse words are filtered out - certain other terms/words that offend yer (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
 
  Re: Profanity again
 
(...) It's good to read you're OK with it. When I saw this the other day I thought "Hey! That's a very good idea!" An idea came to me this morning- how about a poll? It would a rating type with a list of clone brands in alphabetical order and (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
 
  Re: Profanity again
 
(...) As much as I don't care for the implied disparaging of my favorite brand, I have to admit that this is a pretty funny failsafe. Dave! (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
 
  Re: Profanity again
 
In lugnet.off-topic.fun, David Eaton wrote: (snipped Lester entirely, and most of what David said) (...) IIRC classic-castle.com has implemented just such a mechanism in their chat, everything profane that the filter substitutes for gets turned into (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
 
  Re: Profanity again
 
(...) I always figured it'd be funny to replace people's swears automatically on the server. So if someone swore, their text would quickly get turned into something a bit tamer. Something like: s/freaking/buttermilk buscuit/gi s/bullpoop/muffin/gi (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
 
  Re: Chicago LEGO Builders Meeting @ Woodridge Public Library
 
(...) Has anyone seen my thunder? I know I had it around here somewhere. Huh. :P Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> | (URL) CLB> (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.org.us.clb, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
 
  Re: Just reach for Lugnet
 
(...) Shhhh, I'm sorting and booking hotel stays, I might mix up my accomodations. e (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)


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