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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fido on August 15, 2008, 05:11:04 PM
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I hit the chat button accidentally on Monday or Tuesday, and the board reveals that I have been there ever since despite repeated attempts to leave. It's a lonely place to be.
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sounds like the FOT room on soulseek
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It's punishment for something you did in FOTchan.
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Hey, it didn't change it to Chinatown. Does this mean I can finally type Bill Hicks?
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Yeah, I noticed creepy is back too. :'(
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i know, Martin. its kind of totally tubular to see it.
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aw, word filters is part of what makes a board awesome! Sort of a forced FOT lingo. I guess it's confusing for new posters, and could be seen as esoteric, but I really enjoyed the filters. Especially totally tubular. I guess there's nothing stopping me from using the filter words, but it's just not the same.
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When/why did the Bill Hicks filtering start? I recently added him to my mental "I Don't Get It" list.
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I thought it was a prank for anyone who typed Bill Hicks (a pretty good comedian) to have it rendered unwittingly as Benny Hill (the worst ever). This is what happened to me. Is there more to the story?
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I dunno about the Hicks/Hill thing, but I figured it was something like what Fido said.
The filters had been around long enough that I'd started typing "Chinatown" and "totally tubular" instead of the words I actually wanted to use.
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chinatown, yes. totally tubular I spelled c-r-e-e-p-y out every. single. time.
strictly out of habit/never learning.
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And then there's Juno and Diablo Cody, forever in my mind as Under Siege 2 and John Ford.
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Now it's all MINE MINE MINE. 8)
First time I've ever been in the chat, actually.
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fucking dammit.
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I would always spell the actual word, even if I knew it would be filtered, just in case something like this happened.
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I always wrote Chinatown since it pretty much became the actual name for it in my mind.
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I would always spell the actual word, even if I knew it would be filtered, just in case something like this happened.
Sometimes I used both Chinatown and FOTchan in the same post, for the same reasons. I've honestly never given more thought to anything as meaningless as that.
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I thought it was a prank for anyone who typed Bill Hicks (a pretty good comedian) to have it rendered unwittingly as Benny Hill (the worst ever). This is what happened to me. Is there more to the story?
I think it was more because people talk about Hicks with such over-the-top reverence.
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I thought it was a prank for anyone who typed Bill Hicks (a pretty good comedian) to have it rendered unwittingly as Benny Hill (the worst ever). This is what happened to me. Is there more to the story?
I think it was more because people talk about Hicks with such over-the-top reverence.
That's what I figured was going on. Which is probably true, and reminds me of how lots of musicians and comedians are lionized when they die, often out of proportion to their merit or significance, however considerable, when they were alive. (I'm not arguing this phenomenon necessarily occurred with Hicks, of whom I was a big fan.)
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I think it was more because people talk about Hicks with such over-the-top reverence.
I tried to write a post last month about not getting Bill Hicks and thinking he was under-the-top unfunny but I gave up when the post-preview kept changing everything to Benny Hill. Probably for the best.
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I think it was more because people talk about Hicks with such over-the-top reverence.
I tried to write a post last month about not getting Bill Hicks and thinking he was under-the-top unfunny but I gave up when the post-preview kept changing everything to Benny Hill. Probably for the best.
The filter did it for you.
That's right, Jason blows minds for a living.
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FOTchan jumped the shark when people actually started talking about it outside of FOTchan.
Back into chat for me!