xkcd fora Mod Madness Information
This page will also contain (when I get around to it) lists of wordfilters from previous Furious Doodlings.
If something is in parentheses in italics, the filter was removed before the end of the Madness. Usually this is followed by a replacement filter, but if not, then the italicised-parenthesised filter was temporary.
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Mod Madness 2015 (20150505 - 20150508)
(* → ook)
(* → ooooook)
(* → eeeek)
(* → 'k)
(* → Woof Woof bloody woof)
(* → SQUEAK)
(* → +++Error. Redo From Start+++)
(* → +++MELON MELON MELON+++)
(* → +++Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe and Reboot +++)
(* → HO.)
(* → bark bark give that little doggie a biscuit bark)
(* → Ook? Oook.)
(* → Gold)
(* → +++Universe Reinitialising, Please Stand By+++)
* → GNU Terry Pratchett (explanation)
(*[qxyz]* → ++Symbol Not Found++)
" → quotation mark
' → apostrophe
( → open bracket
) → closed bracket
, → comma
- → hyphen
. → Full stop
: → colon
; → semi colon
(? → question mark)
([ → open square bracket)
\ → forward slash
_ → underscore
!!!!! → (five exclamation marks, a sure sign of an insane mind)
1190: "Time" → She doesn't wear trousers
20th century → century of the fruitbat
21st century → century of the rat
3 → many
4 → lots
5 → lots
(a → the)
a → Thee
a black hole → a bookshop that hasn't learnt to read
a bookshop → a bookshop (A good bookshop was just a genteel somewhere in Thee library that knows Who beside read.closed bracket
a Christian → an Omnian
Actual Important Announcement → PROCLAMATION FROM THE SOAPBOX IN SATOR SQUARE
Adelaide → Didjabringabeeralong
a forum → a soapbox
admin → Assassin
administrators → Assassin's Guild
admins → Assassins
Africa → Klatch
a law → some lore
(am → are)
am → being
A.M. → a.re.
ambicioso → Something in Genoan?
AMD → Ant Manipulation Drive
a million → lots
a miracle → (Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still) a miracle.
a movie → a click
an → then
an airplane → a broomstick
android → golem
Angua → Constable Igor
are → being
Asia → Counterweight Continent
Australia → XXXX
Austrailian → Ecksian
automatic → pseudothaumatic
automatically → pseudothaumatically
autumn → Back to School
a week → juste 7 dayes
awesome → awethome
Azrael → DEATH
BASIC → Basiceros
BFFs → Cable Street Particulars
bigger → not-as-wee
black hole → somewhere in the library
black holes → bookshops that haven't learnt to read
blind quartets → Millenium hand and shrimp
broken → broken (but possibly mended)
C++ → Cephalotes
C# → Centromyrmex
cheesed → cheesed (like creamed, but takes longer)
Christ → Grandson Richard, 39
COBOL → Colobostruma
Cockney → Dimwell
cocktails → stories about chickens
(coding → technomancy)
coding → ant farming
confusing → confuthing
count to → count two
count up → If you can count two two, you can count two anything
course → courthe
crossword → Miss Grace Speaker is devilishy good at making these
cyborg → golem
day → Opened time
day's → Opened time's
dentist → dentisht
dentistry → dentishtry
dentures → denturesh
despised → dethpithed
devil → Prices Slashed
Did you know? → Did ye ken?
Discworld → Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
double post → inappropriately frivolous buggers
duck → what duck?
(earth → Disc)
earth → thith Bromeliad
(earth's → Disc's)
earth's → thith Bromeliad's
Easter → Soul Cake
economical → echo-gnomical
economics → echo gnome-ics
economy → echo gnomy
Egypt → Djelibeybi
email → clacks
e-mail → clacks
especially → ethpecially
evangelize → smite the unbelievers with explanatory pamphlets
evening → Closing time
FaiD → the Shades
fax → clacks
(filter → thing that changes a thing to another thing)
filter → thing what changes a thing to another thing
(filters → filterth)
(filters → things that change things to other things)
filters → things what change things to other things
five → lots
(FleetingThoughts → FleetingThoughtth)
FleetingThoughts → Hit by inspiration particles. Can use a tinfoil hat to help prevent
for → was
Fortran → Formica
(forums → turtles all the way down)
four → lots
Free as in Destitute → Ankh-Morpork
from → beside
fuck → -
fun → !!FUN!!
funny → inappropriately frivolous
gloom → glom
(God → Glod)
God → Arnold Bros (est. 1905)
(God's → Glod's)
God's → Arnold Bros (est. 1905)'s
Greece → Ephebe
gun → gonne
happy → happy as a cat full of sixpences
Haskell → Harpegnathos
heaven → the heavens
hell → The Boiler room
hilarious → inappropriately frivolous
hot dog → sausage-inna-bun
how → Who
humor → inappropriate frivolity
humour → inappropriate frivolity
I → we
I'd → we'd
i.e. → we.e.
I'll → we'll
Intel → Anthill
intro thread → You there! It was you what done it, wasn't it? Tell us your name!
is → was
I've → we've
Java → Iridomyrmex
JavaScript → Iberoformica
Jesus → Grandson Richard, 39
justice → just ice
kippers → plates-of-meat
laws → parts of the lore
lawyer → lorist
lawyers → lorists
lettuce → turtle-food
lexicon → Necrotelicomnicon
light speed → slightly faster than the speed of sound
lisp → lithp
m → re
ma'am → ma'are
mad → contradictory to the democratic view of reality
madness → Madnethth
magistrates → Cable Street Particulars
Mary | Bargains Galore
master → marthter
masturbate → have a date with Rosie Palms
masturbating → having a date with Rosie Palms
masturbatory → date with Rosie Palms
me → us
millions → lots
mine → ours
mission → mission from Glod
(moderators → Night Watch)
moderators → Closed time Watch
mods → The Watch
morning → opening time
my → our
myself → ourselves
New York → The Big Wahoonie
NSP → NTHP
night → nit
OCaml → Octostruma
of → about
Olympus → Dunmanifestin
operating system → beehive
operating systems → beehives (title of xkcd 1508)
opposition → oppothition
outstanding → outthtanding
particle → itty bitty bit
pastry → figgin
pavement → cobbles
Pavlovian → pavlovian (will, at the ringing of a bell, eat a strawberry meringue)
PD → Unmentionables
people → things
Perl → Perissomyrmex
(philosophy → throwing on a silly dress and getting piss-drunk)
philosophy → throwing on a inappropriately frivolous dress and getting piss-drunk
phlip → Sergent Haddock
(php → Pheidologeton)
physics → high-energy magic
pink → empinkened
P.M. - p.re.
Poker → Cripple Mister Onion
poster → large piece of paper that is for looking at
Pratchett → Tolkein
programming → ant farming
Prolog → Proceratium
pun → pune, or a play on words
Python → Prolasius
*que* → ++What Not Found. Reinstall FTB. Whaaaaaaaaa++
rain → Sprinklers
Randall → Vetinari
REPORT FOR DUTY → When I say jump, you say WHAT COLOUR!
robot → golem
Ruby → Royidris
Santa → the Hogfather
sausage → sausage-inna-bun
Scheme → Simopelta
science → magic that we just don't understand yet
scientific → magical (but with more words)
Second Talon → Cheery Littlebottom
seconds → thecondth
SecondTalon → CheeryLittlebottom
seems → theemth
seven → a little less than eight
shrill → justified
silly → inappropriately frivolous
*sin* → ++Piety Not Found, Reinstall Universe++
small → wee
smartphone → Dis-Organizer
soup → shoop
special → thpecial
splendid → thplendid
spring → Spring Sales
ST → CL
stick figure → anatomically-correct and photorealistic
strange → particularly peculiar
substitute → thubthtitute
substitution → thubthtitution
summer → Summer Clearance
super → thuper
support → shupport
surgery → thurgery
surgical → thurgical
sweet → thweet
Sydney → Bugarup
teatime → teatime (pronounced "Teh-ah-time-eh")
telephone → clacks
Terry Pratchett → Neil Gaiman
the → Thee
the black hole → the bookshop that hasn't learnt to read
the fora → The Disc
the forum → The Disc
the forums → The Disc
the internet → L-space
the law → the lore
the north → The hub
the south → The rim
the speed of light → really not very fast at all
things → thingth
this → thith
thread → threat
three → many
to → beside
trolly problem → Ly Tin Wheedle is going to need another drink for this one
tug-o-war → with Captain Carrot (wub wub wub)
Upside-Down Map → Looking at the Disc from the other edge
uranium → Uselessium
VB → Vitsika
veterinarian → dog-botherer
weiner → sausage-inna-bun
what → Why
when → whence
where → When
wiener → sausage-inna-bun
wig → prunes
wind → Air Conditioning
winter → Christmas Fayre
wizard → wizzard
Woman thread → Lady Sybil's thread, here there be dragons
word → phrase
(wordfilter → thing that changes a word to another word)
wordfilter → thing what changes a word to another word
(wordfilters → thingth that change words to other words)
wordfilters → things what change words to other words
xkcloud → xkWatchOutForThoseRocks
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