MonkeeSage
Senior Member.
I will call him Calvin(e).
Mendel
Senior Member.
Her name is Bigtooth.
JMartJr
Senior Member.
I am not sure if I want to seriously suggest this as an added feature of the site... maybe later, if things go on the way they have been going.... but for now let's suggest, over here, the following:
Whenever a post is made to MB featuring the word "orb" it is automatically altered to "distant dot or blob or something too indistinct to tell what shape it is."
I recognize that this might entail extra work for our Mr. West, to avoid "absorbing" becoming "absdistant dot or blob or something too indistinct to tell what shape it ising," and the like. But the potential loss of clarity in such cases would, I think, be more than adequately compensated by the clarity gained when people are no longer able to call every smudge or flying full-stop an "orb."
Whenever a post is made to MB featuring the word "orb" it is automatically altered to "distant dot or blob or something too indistinct to tell what shape it is."
I recognize that this might entail extra work for our Mr. West, to avoid "absorbing" becoming "absdistant dot or blob or something too indistinct to tell what shape it ising," and the like. But the potential loss of clarity in such cases would, I think, be more than adequately compensated by the clarity gained when people are no longer able to call every smudge or flying full-stop an "orb."
Mendel
Senior Member.
God forbid there's a simple search-and-replace, morbidly absorbing syllables in its orbit.
Todd Feinman
Senior Member
I'm more concerned about the damage to the East Wing.
NoParty
Senior Member.
"Damage" might be under-selling it, a bit.
FatPhil
Senior Member.
That was a problem solved in the 70s:
s/\borb\b/...
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