bravis reminded me in another thread of these fine tools.
We wouldn’t want inappropriate words to be spoken or written. Ever.
Post here the funniest cases.
Mine: this comics forum had one of those, and Robin’s name being D.ick (hope you can see it bravis) Greyson was always ** Grayson. I guess his momma shoulda named him Penis Greyson. That is appropriate.

I had a friend named Joanna Dick (say it very quickly with a question mark at the end).

Her surname was disallowed on the internet. Which is mad. The whole name is filthy. It should have been banned completely.

I believe even words like ‘buns’ and ‘baps’ are banned, which leaves online greengrocers screwed.

Screwdriver is something I always remember as being hit by a content filter in a post I made somewhere.

The harmless “screw in the screw with the screwdriver” becomes “XXXX in the XXXX with the XXXXdriver” which is clearly just pure filth.

I’m at home now so I can happily read all the forum threads, even this one.

Best stupid names I’ve come across in my 10 years teaching…

Rude ones:
Ewan Kerr
Will Lee
Ria Dye (reverse the names like on a school register)
Chris Peacock

Just funny:
Olly Wood
James Brown
Jethro Flowerdew
Bertie Steggles

I mean, what are these parents thinking?

How about Phoebe Koontz (my 8th grade English Teacher). Fanny Lipschitz (Girl in my high school, no kidding) And my favorite: Gertrude Piadonkowitz. She was an Army Brat and arrived in October, 6th grade and left before summer.

I attended college with a CASH REGISTER!!!! The guy bummed money from me all the time.

Not a genuine funny name as such – but to do with names anyway.

In between my first and second years at college, I worked in the GPO (postal service sorta thing in England) as a summer job. One task was transferring hand written forms to the computer.
One man ignored the instruction and put Grimshaw in the surname field and left the forename empty. He was actually G. Rimshaw.

Anyway, back to my second year at college, the first year students kept pestering me and asking my name. I grabbed the Grimshaw, plus another name I thought went with it. “Maurice Grimshaw”
They then called me “Morris”, and to this day some still think that was my name.
(It isn’t, my real name is totaly different – a really nice name, honestly, it is, really).

What about the runner (athletic/sports/guy in spandex running fast) with the surname Gay? He won a race, and a headline in a newspaper (don’t remember which). Anyhow, the newspaper had an automated editor just to make sure none of the journalists allowed any slips. So, because Gay is an offensive word (officially; I know several gay and lesbian folks who refer to themselves as ’gay’) his headline read:

HOMOSEXUAL WINS RACE

Are we really that afraid of words? Technicalities? Humans can’t be trusted to edit their own work properly when that is how they make their living? This is a bit much…modern times…ahhhh…

Heh ‘gay’ is a funny word. First it meant ‘happy’, then ‘homosexual’, then ‘lame’. Wonder what’s next…

I think it might evolve to mean ‘slapdash writers’ or ‘those who pretend to like Metallica.’

I’ll be funnier later on. Maybe. After a few vodkas.

I thought it was funny. Possibly more prophetic than comedic, but still funny ;P

And I’ve had no vodka yet! Honest!