just found out what "Canoe" means

there are a few phrases that continue to evade my understanding if those in the aware care to enlighten me i'd be glad to rid myself of forum fodder ignorance...

berkley.?

E36 m3. ?

and if there are anymore i may encounter while perusing this fine place post em here with definitions and proper usage...

thanx guys this is an awesome place to learn stuff

skeze wrote: there are a few phrases that continue to evade my understanding if those in the aware care to enlighten me i'd be glad to rid myself of forum fodder ignorance... berkley.? E36 m3. ? and if there are anymore i may encounter while perusing this fine place post em here with definitions and proper usage... thanx guys this is an awesome place to learn stuff

Those words are part of the bad word filter.

Type the bad word for poopy in the system and you get e36 m3 out.

Type the bad word for copulation in the system and you get berkley.

How come every time I write F you see K? Bonus points if you get the reference.

I still don't know exactly what canoe is.

EastCoastMojo wrote: How come every time I write F you see K? Bonus points if you get the reference.

Brilliant!!!

Conoe is code for spam

so if i write berkeleying E36 M3 this is what i get

berkeleying awesome....now i feel like GI JOE

I think Canoe was the safety work on an episode of Family Guy. At least, that's what happened in my alternate reality.

Canoe used to be the safety word that someone could type in after a spambot attacked our forum so that we could search on that word and delete posts. We've since stopped doing that, but the tradition lives on.

The others were just having fun with sensors. Comment around office, "E36 M3s are the sht" so...that that becomes the new word for sht.

Per

vajajay.=queenB mother berkeleyer= mother berkleyer...

i like these

All of them, except Bob Costas predate even me...they are from, like, three boards ago.

canoe == spam

Yep, I think I put those filters in about 6 years ago, IIRC.

"Zombie Canoe" has been used on several occasions where the spammers search the board for code words (like insurance) and then drop their spam for insurance into the thread hoping that it just looks like part of the discussion. What happens is that these threads are often old, like a year or more old when the spammer brings the back from the dead.

EastCoastMojo wrote: How come every time I write F you see K? Bonus points if you get the reference.

And double bonus points if you know who said it to whom. And triple points if you know the outcome!

Here is another nugget of info that is not printed anywhere.
The way this board is configured, if you want to single space your sentences you have to hit the space bar twice before hitting enter.
If you do not have the two hits of the space bar then your text will all remain in one paragraph.

If you want to write a list
you
have
to
hit
the
spacebar
twice
before
returning
to
the
new
line

In reply to jrw1621:

Thanks
man.
I
was
wondering
what
was
up
with
that.

I don't even make the filter change the words for me. I just type berkley and e36 m3 to begin with. It works better that way in my mind

The best is when you yell (literally...) "Berkeley Pinchvalve" at the guy that cuts you off, and everyone else in the car thinks you are speaking in tongues!

While we're here, what does SWMBO mean? I keep seeing it but coming up blank.

she who must be obeyed

EastCoastMojo wrote: How come every time I write F you see K? Bonus points if you get the reference.

"If you see Kay" was an April Wine tune if that is what you meant. Otherwise... I don't get it?

PubBurgers wrote: While we're here, what does SWMBO mean? I keep seeing it but coming up blank.

A reference from John Mortimer's Rumpole of the Bailey stories. Rumpole, a crusty old barrister, always referred to his wife as "She who must be obeyed". Many middle aged, married men found this struck a chord.

One more piece of board slang is "flounder". Basically to indicate a political or religious discussion that is just (or can only become) antagonistic and doesn't actually benefit anyone. People often often reference it by putting up pictures of the fish, or prefacing a conversation about getting ready to cook a bottom-dwelling flat fish.

SWMBO is pretty common in other parts of the internets.

I think this board needs its own version of RDWHAHB, from home-brew boards. Maybe RDWWOAC or RDWHYA.

Chebbie_SB wrote: The best is when you yell (literally...) "Berkeley Pinchvalve" at the guy that cuts you off, and everyone else in the car thinks you are speaking in tongues!

Okay, there's one I don't know. What's "pinchvalve"? I mean, I know what a pinchvalve is..but don't know what word it's filtering.

In reply to friedgreencorrado: what my guess is since pinche in spanish is "a"hole. to me pinch valve is an elaborate way to say Sphincter ...perhaps i'm wrong but a sphincter does rather resemble a pinch valve of sorts and vice versa

I love putting "berkley" in my status on Facebook, and seeing who chimes in.