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In attempts to censor profanity on the Internet, the first try is almost always with search and replace, or as smart people call it "regular expressions."

The Daily WTF today reminded us all of the result.

This clbuttic howler is easy to find now with Google. There's a world full of blue-glbutt banjo, paranoid theories about buttbuttination from the grbutty knoll and systematic chemical mbuttacre, and Big Mouth Billy Bbutt.

It reminds me of the possibly apocryphal news story in which the suspect fled in a late model African-American Dodge sedan.

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Date: 2008-02-27 10:02 am (UTC)
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This reminds me of a story in a Missouri newspaper about a pubic bear hunt in the Ozarks.

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