Wikipedia: Blogs

1. Lol try saying that 10 times fast

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2. does the chicken talk predate the parking lot is full comic?

   

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3. @Cesium.

   Similarly, one could say:

   An XKCD reader Cesium was writing the phrase:

   “The owner of an inn was painting the name, “Horse and Wagon”, onto a sign. A traveler passing by stopped and said, “There’s too much space between horse and and and and and wagon.”

   onto the XKCD blag, when Nate stopped by to point out: There’s too much space between “horse” and “and”, and “and” and “and”, and “and” and “and”, and “and” and “and”, and “and” and “and”, and “and” and “wagon”.

   That’s 21. Can we do better? Yes.

   Because this process can be repeated arbitrarily many times, so (by simple recurrence relations) I think that it is safe to say that for any number x of the form x = (-1/3) + (4/3)(4^n) where n is a non-negative integer, there exists a grammatically correct sentence with x consecutive occurrences of the word “and”. (Here, the property of ‘consecutiveness’ is independent of punctuation.)

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5. Someone needs to make a recording of him/herself reading this.

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6. It’s a schooner!

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7. Put the Regexps away, or I’ll take them away!

   :p

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8. The original article also contains phlog, while the above post does not.

   @LSK: I see I’m not the only Underworld fan here….

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9. @Ren,

   Somebody (a1s) did, above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xTDnpie-0k

   It’s like 6 minutes long! I guess it’s just habit, but when I got bored with it I jumped around to the later parts of the video. To see how it ends, I guess 🙂
   -Ben

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10. You wrote foriegn just to get my coat, didn’t you. You feind.

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11. It’s not a schooner! It’s a sailboat!

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13. I’m really hoping that you did this automagically, rather than by hand.

    Maybe something like
    s/(?:[^w]+(?:(?!blog)w)*b)+/ /ig

    (can anyone find a more elegant way to do this?)

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14. sounds like some computational linguisterin’ shenanigans goin’ on here…

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15. Nate: To make it semi-intelligible, there would also have to be arbitrarily many quotation marks.

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16. This is why I prefer to read the Uncyclopedia.

    http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Blog

    Enjoy!

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17. s = ”
    for word in article:
    if ‘blog’ in word:
    s += ‘ ‘+word

    It may be more lines than a regular expression, but at least you can tell what it’s doing by looking at it.

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18. Drat! It ate my pythontastic tabbage. Pretend it didn’t.

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19. print join( ‘ ‘, grep { /blog/i } ( split ” “, $article ) );

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20. Kudos to any one that reads through this whole thing, ’cause I sure didn’t.

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21. Malkovich, Malkovich?

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22. comment comment Comment commenT commeNt commEnt comMent coMment cOmment Comment comments commenting

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23. I note Conservapedia’s entry on blogs is rather pathetic, only containing the word “blog” once and “web log” (as two words) once. Maybe we should help them out? Maybe a section on blogs in the Bible?

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24. Blogs. Blogs. Blogs they are everywhere.
    Blogs. Blogs. Blogs croaking fill the air.
    Louder. Louder. Louder is their blasting blair
    and there’s no silence in the night.

    Blogs. Blogs croaks heard three miles away.
    5. 6. 7 on that day.
    Blogs. Blogs multipling more each day
    and there’s no silence in the night.

    Blogs. Blogs don’t try to seek them out.
    Blogs. Blogs froud hidding all about.
    Grab. Grab. Grab their throats and ring them out.
    cause there’s no silence in the night.

    Blogs. Blogs their good is only bad.
    Flirting. Flirting. Flirting on thier lilly pad.
    Mom. Mom. Mom says no but you know dad.
    and there’s no silence in the night.

    Blogs. Blogs don’t you know the strain?
    Blogs. Blogs. Please, please, please refrain
    and listen [croak, croak] there they go again. Blogs. Blogs
    and there’s no silence in the night.

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25. And that doesnt even count ones such as vlog!

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26. Dogs dogs eat eat dogs dogs eat.

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27. …I do believe you’ve discovered a new programming language (a variant of OOK)!

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28. i expect there is a long tailed distribution with the number of derivatives that @sage enumerated. log-normal, or power law?!

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29. A schooner is a sailboat, stupidhead!

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30. >What’ve you got?

    We’ve got:
    eggs and spam
    ham eggs and spam
    eggs bacon and spam
    spam eggs bacon and spam
    ham sausage bacon and spam
    spam spam eggs spam and sausage
    spam spam spam spam steak and eggs and spam
    spam-pancakes eggs spam spam and spam
    spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam

    >Have you got anything without spam in it?

    What??????

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31. And it’s true!!! O_O

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32. I think the wikipedia article is even funnier if you don’t remove some of the verbs:

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33. Did anyone else notice the Pareto distribution in sage’s post?

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34. I added mushroom to the badger page, I tried to be as subtle as possible.

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36. dude, if you were gay and i was gay….

    your comic gets me. … right where my friends said i had no sense of humor.

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37. Darn, it’s gone now.

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38. Go to the Badgers article and look carefully at the first paragraph of the “Badgers and humans” section. Mushroom! 😀

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39. Re: Kurt McAllister – October 6th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
    How long did it take you to do this? Do you have some sort of program that removes specific words or something?

    STAND BACK! and read #208 on regex’s 😉

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41. Step back! I know regular expressions.

    Seems that you have looked for words with “blog” as substring, hence missing things like “vlog”, and of course “blag”.

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42. Not too long ago someone edited the Wiki page for Duck and replaced the whole page with ” quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack” etc. Interblags.

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43. Went for “mushroom” in the badger article again at 17:25 Pacific…wonder how long it’ll last.

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44. Ah, I’d like to add a ridiculous blog permutation: plog, or plogging. To blog, politically. Also slightly euphemistic. e.g. “why don’t you just go plog about it, then?”

    Net value added to universe: 0

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45. http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Blah_Blah

    http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Blah_States

    http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Blah_Clinton

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46. For extra credit perform the blog regex on this comment page….

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47. I added a vandalism to the Val Kilmer article that lasted for -months-, once. Not exactly on topic, but…
    blog blog blog blog

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48. well this just blows my bubble

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49. curl -s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog | perl -ne ‘print lc, ” ” for (m/([a-z]*blog[a-z]*)/gi);’ && echo

    curl -s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog | perl -ne ‘print lc, “n” for (m/([a-z]*blog[a-z]*)/gi);’ | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

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50. To be fair, that’s like saying “The following sentence has everything but the letter ‘a’ removed: a a aa a aa aa aa a.”

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