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  • 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...

    by mrweasel
  • 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.

    by ChrisMarshallNY
  • 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.
    by sehugg
  • Hey, don’t copy my daily affirmations
    by zwaps
  • 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.
    by bityard
  • 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.
    by whacked_new
  • 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.
    by DamnInteresting
  • I'm partial to this complaint generator, on the internet since 1994 and semi-regularly updated since: https://www.pakin.org/complaint

    here's a 1 paragraph complaint about Dang (which will be different on every load): https://www.pakin.org/complaint?title=&firstname=Dang&middle...

    by Scoundreller

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