Evading the CNN.com Nannybot

I frequently hang out on the CNN.com message boards, and I've learned to loathe its idiotic nannybot, which prevents people from posting comments that contain any occurrence of certain forbidden character strings. For example, you may speak of attitude, entitlement, or constitution without ever noticing the female breast lurking within, but the literal-minded nannybot evidently "thinks" you're a filthy purveyor of decadent pornography and will just politely inform you that "Your comment is awaiting moderation.", which means it'll get posted something like 6 weeks after hell freezes over.

So I've created this page as an easy-to-refer-to public service. The nannybot is not case-sensitive.

Forbidden Words

.com
arse
asshole
bastard
bitch
boner
cock
coon
cum
cunt
douche
effing
fag
ftw
fuck
homo
horny
jackass
jap
jism
kooch
nipple
orgy
pis
porn
poo
prick
rape
sex
sh@t
shit
slut
snatch
spic
tit
twat
vag
whore
wonderful us (WTF? And, speaking of which ...)
wtf

Examples Thereof

internetsite.com
arsenal, Carse
cockatiel, cockleshell, cocktail, stopcock
raccoon, cocoon

document, accumulate, circumnavigate, circumstance, cumbersome, cucumber

Scunthorpe, England

software, delftware, swiftwater, aftward
homo sapiens, homosexual, homogenous

thorny

Japan, jape

koochie koo

pistol, lapis, pissed, therapist, pistachio

prickling, prickles

skyscraper, trapeze, grape, therapeutic, sarape
Essex, sexual

Matsushita

reslut (common typo)

Bandersnatch

despicable, hospice, conspicuous, suspicious, spicule, spice

constitution, attitude, entity, altitude, beatitude

wristwatch, nightwatchman

extravagant, vagina, vagrant, vague, savage

Acceptable Words

anal

anus

ass

boob

crap

damn

execute

hell

kill

masturbation

murder

penis

pubic

raping (rape is not ok)

shat (sh@t is not ok)

sphincter

testes

testicles

Common Dodges

The most common dodges are simply to insert spaces, periods, or hyphens to break up the forbidden character strings, like atti tude, ent.itlement, or consti-tution, but a slightly less obtrusive approach is to replace a single letter with something that looks very similar. Here are the ones I've hit upon, along with how to generate them using a Macintosh keyboard:

a –> accented á (hold down "a", choose from pop-up list)
bastàrd
fàg
jackàss
jàp
snàtch
twàt
vàgue
e –> cent sign (¢; option-$)
ars¢
rap¢
s¢x
i –> Spanish inverted exclamation point (¡; option-!)
b¡tch
eff¡ng
j¡sm
n¡pple
p¡stachio
pr¡ck
sh¡t
sp¡c
t¡t
o –> Swedish slashed ø (hold down "o", choose from pop-up list)
asshøle
cøck
hømo
hørny
ørgy
pørn
whøre
oo –> infinity sign (∞; option-5)
c∞n
k∞ch
shamp∞
t –> dagger (†; option-t)
f†w
w†f
u –> Greek mu (µ; option-m)
cµm
cµnt
doµche
fµck
slµt
W –> double V (VV)
FTVV
VVTF

Nannybot Evader Database

Since I design FileMaker Pro databases as a hobby, I whumped one up to enable me to test and correct comments before posting them to CNN.com. It's free upon request directly to me. 168 KB, works on either Mac or Windows if you have a copy of the FMP program, Version 12 or higher.