Gimme Your Wurst (Words)
Never one to shy away from an easy scripting project (cheers to brother Mad for the idea), I’m revamping my captcha class (comment spam thwartin’ image doohickey) with some intelligible-yet-still-fairly-random words, and I need some help in compiling a list. I’ve already got A through C fleshed out, but i’d like a little input from you wordsmiths out there on the rest of the alfa... alpo... you know what I mean. Do me a solid and leave a comment with some words I can use, will ya?
A few things:
- Words need to be 8 letters or less; 9 is okay if there aren’t too many m’s or w’s (its a fixed-width sort of thing).
- Be creative.
- Dictionary words? What’s a dictionary?
- Vulgarity is always welcomed… nay, encouraged here.
- Each word goes on its own line (helps me cut and paste them into an array). ex:
goggled
grumper
gherkin
ganked
gleeked
ganja
... you get the picture. - Anything A through Z is cool. Mix it up if you want, but if you get going on a particular consonant (immolated, implosion, invertednipple! Aiiieeeeegh!), much obliged.
- I’m thinking ten-to-fifteen words is enough for each letter of the alphabet, but if you have more than that, feel free to purge your fecund brain – I’ll pare them down as I go.
- Do you think stream of consciousness exercises like this are an accurate measure of an individual’s personality? Well I do too, you sick fuckers.
- Make me laugh, I dare you.
19 Missives So Far
01 Mad said on Mon Jan 23 4:59:43 EST
Yay!
*Does the "I helped spawned a Hinkybox innovation" soft shoe shuffle*
I suggest:
Gadzoiks
and umm
Sporking
Eureka
Felching
If I think of any good ones I will return later Josh
:D
02 mokiejovis said on Mon Jan 23 8:09:52 EST
Capdabbler
Chewtality
Craptacular
Cromulent
Following cromulent, of course, requires that I enter
Embiggens
03 josh said on Mon Jan 23 11:28:33 EST
Aye. 'Tis a noble spirit. Let's marry our cousins.
04 anonymouscoworker said on Mon Jan 23 12:07:15 EST
grundle
taint
foobert
smegma
packle
festoon
gimlet
gibbers
gristle
nuglet
gnarf
spooge
buggery
parsnip
Nuts. I'd be able to give you more and better if I wasn't sick and hopped up on DayQuil.
05 tfg said on Mon Jan 23 18:57:13 EST
twat
twit
twaddle
tweed
weed
reed
read
bead
analbead
steed
heed
peed
peepee
schlong
dong
kong
dong of kong
wrong
wren
wrench
wrap
wrapper
crapper
zapper
flapper
rapper
rap
par
pare
pear
reap
rape
ape
pea
This is just like Yahoo Text Twist, except I don't lose all the time.
07 josh said on Wed Jan 25 19:42:35 EST
San Antonio, Texas Bubs. I'm heading out there next month to check on a place to live -- I'd like to live here or here -- but the goal really is to bide my time until I can convince IBM to hire me so I can live closer to here.
You gonna swing through on your way to see your pops? It's only about 10 hours to Tulsa, which is like a trip to the corner store out west. :)
08 josh said on Wed Jan 25 19:52:10 EST
Oh, and - BTW - you really should steal these Vista fonts -- they were designed specifically for the screen, and they're pretty cool. If you can't get them through bittorrent, email me and I'll shoot 'em over.
09 prying1 said on Thu Jan 26 1:01:11 EST
Ringup
rangup
whaster
limbod
qwelk
asdug
zaxter
pollyg
galter
phixer
plammer
jimberf
pallup
slinjun
grupe
philler
losted
I suggest keeping them shorter if you can. As a four finger typist that has to look at the keyboard I hate to spend 10 minutes to get the verification right.
I will say too I'd rather see the verification on your comment section than a bunch of spam. - GBYAY -
10 Psychophil said on Thu Jan 26 8:21:19 EST
Mini rant: I can't stand those 'captcha' anti-spam methods. I've got two family memebers who are sight impaired and captcha effectively locks them out from commenting on the blogs that use it or sites that require it for registration.
11 tfg said on Thu Jan 26 18:57:58 EST
In the immortal words of George Carlin:
ratshit
batshit
dirty
old
twats
sixty
nine
assholes
tie
them
in
a
knot
hooray
lizardshit
fuck
12 josh said on Thu Jan 26 20:42:03 EST
Mini rant: I can't stand those 'captcha' anti-spam methods. I've got two family memebers who are sight impaired and captcha effectively locks them out from commenting on the blogs that use it or sites that require it for registration.
I sympathize with blind folk; in fact I spent the majority of a mindless shift at Tarjay today mulling your somewhat direct assault on my working premise and thinking of a way to accomodate folks who use screenreaders. Not because of how you said it mind you -- I'm pretty sure you didn't mean to come off like an arsehool.
Kidding, of course.
There are a few methods I know of that do Bayesian filtration or behavioral heuristics ('referer' peculiarities, time spent between page load and comment) and other methods, most of which are dicey at best. I'm still thinking about it. I know my man wheat would appreciate some help with his version of wheatblog -- he got nailed 40 times within a few hours not too long ago.
There's a W3C WG Note on this topic that I read over dinner tonight, and it provided some insight into the problem.
Thanks for your input. It was ultimately helpful.
13 Mad said on Fri Jan 27 9:57:22 EST
Yeah man, like it or not I'm gonna drop in on you. :D
.o0(Oooh I got "drooling", kewl)
14 josh said on Fri Jan 27 11:44:24 EST
You and yours are always welcome at the Circle-J ranch.
Wait a minute. Dammit. I gotta think of a better name.
15 Affordable Portable Services said on Mon Jan 30 13:44:39 EST
i must confess i don't understand the exercise i'm about to participate in but in my defense i got a bit fuddled last night. so what makes a vagina suspicious anyway? by the way, i've been taking advice from a man from san anton' for the last several years. i can't say yet how good the advice has been, so at the least, i urge you to use caution.
Tipsy
fuddled
boozy
groggy
elevated
prime
did
edit
her
Hellborn
elfchild
roadhog
mountain
fortune
hunter
man
beheaded
her
Fat
bulk
expanse
mass
lump
block
clod
Rabid
victim
martyr
stranded
level
headed
boy
ya
better
bend
Soon
your
luscious
honey
sugar
mellifluous
life
is
gonna
end
16 josh said on Mon Jan 30 19:44:47 EST
Is that you, Shafran?!?!
If so:
Man, what are they teaching you out at that university of yours? Is that a legal name change? If so, it is quite clever. Couldn't stand to part with your monogrammed bath slippers, eh? :)
If not:
Get help.
17 Mad said on Wed Feb 1 4:57:15 EST
Oh and I've had the Vista fonts for aaaaaages ;)
IE7 Beta 2 eats half of your post button Josh.
.o0(I got "derelict" this time)
18 josh said on Wed Feb 1 12:13:00 EST
I noticed. Still working on the conditionals I need, but they should be up within the week.
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