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[Metrogirl]

Yahoo won't allow "Allah" in email addresses, but "God" is fine ... Of course, if you're called Callahan, you're screwed: Yahoo bans Allah

Reminds me of the unfortunate citizens of Scunthorpe, England, who could't put their address in AOL messages because of the four-letter word detected inside the town name  

[Hagar]

I had the same problem with a public-sector firewall/proxy once: we couldnt get hold of ethernet drivers because they were "9xxx series" & the 3 xes were blocked.. Also our collaboration with a project in sweden was severely hampered by the fact that "swedish" was blocked too...

[Beringer]

You're not allowed to have your new iPod engraved
If your name is Nigel.

http://www.theregist..._war_on_nigels/

I wonder how many austrians have gotten an iPod engraved:

http://www.urlaub-sa...wanker/Haus.htm

And, of course, in the UK they have Timothy Bottoms and Tony Woodcock..

Compared to that, Husband and McCool (SS Columbia) sounds almost sane.

Almost..


Ah yes, i almost forgot:
The (likely) next city to host LinuxWorldExpo:

http://www.f***ing.a...**ing/eOrt1.htm

But, as you can see, this forum does the same, breaking
an otherwise perfectly good URL.

[Metrogirl]

Beringer, that's brilliant!  I laughed so much over those...  

PS I used my moderator powers to fix the link in your post so you can now go to the f***ing website by clicking on it.   I didn't attempt to fix the visible part because no doubt Mash would get a PM saying I was a Bad Girl

[Beringer]

Glad you liked it, MG!

Here's another:


First there was eMail, then eConomy

Now we bring you the original, one and only eWanker!

http://www.mdc-berli...stem/wanker.htm

Notice the email-addy at the bottom..



regards

[Metrogirl]

I think the term "wanker" is lost on many Americans, though - it doesn't mean much over here, which is great, if I call someone a wanker they're not sure if it's an insult or a compliment!

They even have an American 'Wanker' beer, believe it or not, and the rest of the English speaking world thinks it's hysterical!   Wanker Beer 'Rude foods website'  - There's plenty more inappropriate names on that site!

I particularly like the name of that sushi restaurant in Singapore, see below.  Oh, dear.

[Eggman]

Metrogirl, on Feb 22 2006, 04:18 PM, said:

I particularly like the name of that sushi restaurant in Singapore, see below.  Oh, dear.

Wonder how many American tourists away "on business" went there...  

[bluedragon1971]

The profanity filter at Neowin.net mangles the name of the company Matsushita, for obvious reasons.  It shows up as Matsu****a!  It has even done that in news posts there!

[Beringer]

http://www.jdbshow.com/bad_name.html
http://www.cockeyed....astyparade.html

http://en.wikipedia....iki/Dick_Assman
http://www.amazon.co...113564?v=glance
http://www.theregist...u_be_descended/

And then of course there's Randy Bender, Novell's Chief Evangelist. He was made famous by The Register, but the original page is gone now..

[Metrogirl]

Ah, yes, Spotted Dick!   A really tasty English pudding which I love to serve to my American guests    There's also a steamed suet-based pudding called 'Boiled Baby'...