Brightwaters and Scunthorpe

[womzilla]

In a comment to an f-locked post, someone left this memory:

I remember an online discussion board that had anti-rude filters placed on it after a change in ownership. This immediately resulted in somebody finding themselves unwittingly discussing the "buttbuttination" of Archduke Ferdinand.

"Arse" got through just fine, however.

I think this surpasses even The Richmond Times's reference to "The Spanish War of Northern Aggression" as my favorite "inappropriate global search-and-replace" story of all time.

[Edited to correct spelling of "Scunthorpe". Thanks, Del_c.]

Comments

[del-c.livejournal.com]

Scunthorpe's only got one "t". That's why it's an amusing search and replace error, because it wouldn't happen if Anglo-Saxon place names weren't concatenated.