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Why is this word censored?
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Posting Junkie
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****
Is there some hidden vulgar meaning?
[edit: the link jumps to the wikipedia entry]
[edit again: no the link doesn't. it got censored too. Read down a bit]
(Last edited by subego; Apr 4, 2005 at 06:22 PM.
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Posting Junkie
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Originally posted by subego:
****
Is there some hidden vulgar meaning?
[edit: the link jumps to the wikipedia entry]
Um, how are we supposed to know what word it is you're complaining about being censored?
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Posting Junkie
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Follow the link!
Reposted here.
[edit: oops, sorry, don't follow that link, it got censored. Read down a little]
(Last edited by subego; Apr 4, 2005 at 06:21 PM.
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I don't understand what the problem is.
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Posting Junkie
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Oh jeebus. I didn't realize the link was getting censored.
At the risk of being baninnated, the word in question is "mung".
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Originally posted by subego:
Oh jeebus. I didn't realize the link was getting censored.
At the risk of being baninnated, the word in question is "mung".
What does that mean? never heard of it.
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Originally posted by zizban:
What does that mean? never heard of it.
From the Wikipedia.
**** (or munge) is computer jargon for "to make repeated changes which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional irreversible destruction of large portions of the original item." It was created in 1958 at the Tech Model Railroad Club, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1960, the backronym "Mash Until No Good" was created to describe ****, and a while after that it was revised to "**** Until No Good"—making it one of the few recursive acronyms.
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Ah, yes. I've actually wondered about that too. I used it once, and it got censored, so I figured it probably had some other meaning that I just didn't know about.
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you people have obviously never seen the urban dictionary definition of this word.
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Originally posted by Demonhood:
you people have obviously never seen the urban dictionary definition of this word.
Hmmm. Can't say I had.
Seeing as how the non-urban meaning of the word is both older and computer related, or is referring to relatively harmless legume, isn't the censor being a tad... overzealous?
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yes. and while this has been educational to some, i don't think we need to discuss this further.
the word doesn't get used often, but hey, there are some pretty funny words in the censor list as it is. but they're not for virgin eyes like you fine upstanding folks 
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I have to take exception to this censored word. Frankly, most people who aren't South Park nuts have never heard it, and frankly, the only thing I've ever heard of mung is the bean that cellophane noodles are made from. It should be removed from the censorship list.
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