I found this in a dusty corner of my code archive, and it made me laugh, and thought it might do the same for others. I wrote this when I was first learning a fancy new language called "Javascript." Apologies for the juvenile humor. Sometimes NSFW.
nstents 7 hours ago [-]
Reading Damn Interesting every day, I had no idea. Someone used your insults on AOL, or something like that, repeatedly. Thank you for the laughs.
7 hours ago [-]
stblack 1 hours ago [-]
Presaged the President of the United States, 27-years ago.
whacked_new 7 hours ago [-]
This is great! I remember being extremely impressed by Boris Johnson's "great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies" insult. How does one come up with such a string of words? I would've used this as a study resource.
YeGoblynQueenne 5 hours ago [-]
>> How does one come up with such a string of words?
By spending all day thinking about them instead of running a country.
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bityard 7 hours ago [-]
The modern web seems to know nothing about it at this point, but back when CGI scripts were a new curiosity, there was a Shakespearean Insult Generator which was popular and quite a lot of fun.
I wrote a conversational insult generator in AppleSoft BASIC, inspired by a program called "Abuse" that I saw advertised in a magazine, and of course by Eliza.
ChrisMarshallNY 7 hours ago [-]
I won't link it, here (the last time I did, it got flagged), but look up Guy Macon's Insult File.
Not a single word that would have tripped the content filters of the time.
karim79 6 hours ago [-]
I know we could easily code this by scraping but I would like to see an official REST API for this inspired service.
7 hours ago [-]
ljiljana 7 hours ago [-]
Y2K Certified too!
daoboy 6 hours ago [-]
So glad to see this preserved.
It was sad to discover zombocom finally died an undignified death earlier this year.
arthurcolle 5 hours ago [-]
Zombo still works
daoboy 5 hours ago [-]
The domain was purchased and redesigned. It still exists but lost something ineffable in the process.
srean 7 hours ago [-]
They have a nice ring and cadence. One could string some of them along into a Pythonic poem to be recited from castle tops.
here's a 1 paragraph complaint about Dang (which will be different on every load): https://www.pakin.org/complaint?title=&firstname=Dang&middle...
*: Ranked 2 on the google proxy I used, as the best SEO optimister just refused to return a result at all.
By spending all day thinking about them instead of running a country.
* https://philosophersguild.com/products/shakespearean-insults...
* https://www.amazon.com/Shakespearean-Insults-Coffee-Mug-Shak...
https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/checkout/src/usr.bin/mg/Attic/the...
https://apps.repebble.com/rude-time_543459b072a84da55500004c
Not a single word that would have tripped the content filters of the time.
It was sad to discover zombocom finally died an undignified death earlier this year.