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Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999)

Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999)

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Comments (25)

  • Scoundreller
    I'm partial to this complaint generator, on the internet since 1994 and semi-regularly updated since: https://www.pakin.org/complainthere's a 1 paragraph complaint about Dang (which will be different on every load): https://www.pakin.org/complaint?title=&firstname=Dang&middle...
  • DamnInteresting
    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.
  • whacked_new
    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.
  • bityard
    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.
  • zwaps
    Hey, don’t copy my daily affirmations
  • mrweasel
    While it has now be retired, I was also partial to the "Theo" mode in mg for insults.https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/checkout/src/usr.bin/mg/Attic/the...
  • citizenfishy
  • sehugg
    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.
  • stblack
    Presaged the President of the United States, 27-years ago.
  • ChrisMarshallNY
    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.
  • anon
    undefined
  • karim79
    I know we could easily code this by scraping but I would like to see an official REST API for this inspired service.
  • ljiljana
    Y2K Certified too!
  • srean
    They have a nice ring and cadence. One could string some of them along into a Pythonic poem to be recited from castle tops.
  • daoboy
    So glad to see this preserved.It was sad to discover zombocom finally died an undignified death earlier this year.
  • specproc
    Now that's what I call programming.