Ridiculous library censorship.

Protagonist · Aug 19, 2008

Mustrum_Ridcully said:
my friends power cable

omg your friend is a robot!!11!

Tinker Gnome · Aug 19, 2008

protagonist said:
omg your friend is a robot!!11!

zomg teh robotz11!11!!1

hanasays · Aug 28, 2008

Maybe somebody at the library has a strange and over-reactive sense of what sorts of words are offensive. After all, nothing bad ever happens in the world -- ever -- and if we completely remove all references to bad things, the bad things go away, right?

Maybe there's some kind of weird story behind some of the oddball censored words. I wouldn't be surprised at someone getting enraged over random things and harassing the library until they just gave in and censored it. "Don't you know that I find roller skates offensive??? I demand that you remove all references to them!!!"

Maybe a bored librarian/intern/whomever got access to whatever software it is that determines which words are censored, and tossed a few completely random ones in just for giggles.

I think that I like the last explanation best, because it's the funniest...

Verdande · Aug 31, 2008

hanasays said:
Maybe a bored librarian/intern/whomever got access to whatever software it is that determines which words are censored, and tossed a few completely random ones in just for giggles.

That's what I'd do if I worked there.

I'd censor words like "the" "and" "if" and "or" and see what people did, just because being a librarian has got to be boring without some extra fun like that.

Mustrum_Ridcully · Aug 31, 2008

Protagonist said:
omg your friend is a robot!!11!

A hot female devil robot from hell!

I hope she never hears that I claimed that... She's definitely not a robot, but you guys don't have to know...

Relique du Madde · Sep 1, 2008

RangerWickett said:
red hand

Either the librarian likes spanking or her hands were red because she ... uhm... eeew.

Mustrum_Ridcully said:
A hot female devil robot from hell!

I hope she never hears that I claimed that... She's definitely not a robot, but you guys don't have to know...

That's good to hear because for a second I thought "power cord" was a euphemism.

Mustrum_Ridcully · Sep 1, 2008

Relique du Madde said:
Either the librarian likes spanking or her hands were red because she ... uhm... eeew.

That's good to hear because for a second I thought "power cord" was a euphemism.

*yuck* Rabbits don't eat meat, anyway... (On the other hand, they don't really eat plastic or copper, either...)

Relique du Madde · Sep 1, 2008

Which animal was it that you have to be careful of having it bit you because "it would develop a taste for human flesh?"

Anyways, I think a fun experiment would be to see how many Dr. Seuss stories will get censored by that library's computer.