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The classic Mcsweeney's for the HN crowd is "E-mail Addresses That Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-m
by chadd 3mo ago
The classic Mcsweeney's for the HN crowd is "E-mail Addresses That Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone"
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-mail-addresses-that-would-be-really-annoying-to-give-out-over-the-phone https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-mail-addresses-that-wo...
- evtothedev 3mo agoI love that gmail was only 4 months old when this came out.
- NikolaNovak 3mo agoMy father in law has email address that is about his small dog. He's Scottish and his dog growls a lot. So his address is weegrrrr. Oh let me tell you the fun of spelling that one over the phone. He's also not the most patient man in the world either :-)
- dafugg 3mo agoTell him to be careful. The chinese government might try to re-educate his email address.
- NikolaNovak 3mo agoHow so?
- folkrav 3mo agoTook me a while admittedly (probably a "me problem") but it's a word play of "Uyghur".
- Fezzik 3mo agoThe Chinese government has been rounding up Uyghurs (pronounced like we-gir) to reeducate them. And the government really does not like it when people talk about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_Chin...
- orthoxerox 3mo ago"The WiFi password is fourwordsalluppercase. One word, all lowercase."
- tremon 3mo agolol, that's what I'd call a dense piece of text: (header) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (end article)
- pjc50 3mo agoIs that being injected by an extension or something? It's perfectly readable to me.
- tremon 3mo agoIt's address (de)obfuscation via javascript, meant to prevent harvesting of spam targets via simple scraping. The HTML plain-text reads what I wrote, there's a javascript hook to replace the placeholders with actual e-mail addresses. But the amount of substance on that page did not merit a reload with javascript enabled.
- mixxit 3mo agoi laughed at that for five straight minutes thank you
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- ddmf 3mo agoI was considering changing my name to Mark Withasea because I keep getting asked so many times "Is that Mark with a K, or a C?"
- oniony 3mo agoDuring the dot-com boom I registered dotcodotuk.co.uk and set up dotcodotuk@dotcodotuk.co.uk. Strangely the novelty of this wore off very quickly.
- pjc50 3mo agoOccasionally on here is user fanf with email address dot@dotat.at