20-12-2012

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Ahráyeph
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I think this qualifies, not just as Joke of The Day, but Joke of the Year also (well, aside from Cameron's 'christian values' soundbyte anyway). Virgin Media, Keepers of the English Morals...
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In a statement, a Virgin Media spokeswoman said: "The altered titles have been swiftly an*lysed and we're fixing any remaining glitches."
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A mate of mine used to work for the brewers Bass(who later sold out to Coors I think) and they has a similiar problem years ago,only after adopting a similiar filter for their email did it occur to them that they had a depot in c**t.

Edit; and bizarrely the same effect occurs here! I didn't type the censored word above at all! I typed the name of a town in Yorkshire that begins with Scun and ends with thorpe . How strange. Try it yourselves.
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ribbons69 wrote:Try it yourselves.
Test: c**t.

EDIT: Haha it does as well!
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Scunthorpe

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lazarus corporation wrote:This one's especially for markfiend:

Use caution – One does not simply walk into Mordor.

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