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 Auto-correct - With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Auto-correct - With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
In a bid to show themselves as sensitive, the American Family Association made sure that the word gay would never appear in any of their literature by setting up an auto-correct macro to change any instance to homosexual.

You know it's a plan just begging to go wrong. picked by pocksucket 5 months ago
tags auto-correct autocorrect american family association homosexual
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 pocksuck...
5 months ago
Reminded me a tiny bit of this, and, well, any excuse...

<a href='http://www.plime.com/redir.p?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDtwB1on1yc' class='plime' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><b>flash video</b></a>



NSFW

Not by a long chalk.
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 restless...
5 months ago
and to think, 'gay' originally meant being giddy or merry.
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 Bornbad
5 months ago
Man, that is so queer.
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 roarkmei...
5 months ago
We must now question the use of autocorrect. especially the way that it replaces my boss's name with "eiddluocihcumoskcidekili"

If you choose to figure out what that says, be my guest.
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 kidsized...
5 months ago
Reminds me of a recent AP story about the presidential race, that replaced about half of the instances of "Obama" with "Osama".
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 mango-fo...
5 months ago
"In Saturday's opening heat, Homosexual pulled way up, way too soon, and nearly was caught by the field, before accelerating again and lunging"
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GOLD!
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 amit56
4 months ago
check out
, it has this really cool viral called “Hello Babloo” as well as some really wacky ways to win free talktime!
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