Not using firms' names on forums - what's that about?

[D9020 Nimbus]

22 hours ago, spikey said:

 

Whereas many of its readers used to refer to it as "Amateur Pornographer"

True enough, but to be fair that changed quite a few years ago when Keith Wilson was the editor, and it has remained the same since then. And it has outlived what it, itself, used to refer to as a "Particular Publication".

[57xx]

On 11/10/2022 at 09:13, TheQ said:

if you want to attract online attention , type in , bomb, explosive, bomb making formula... and then some important address.. like number 10...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh... what did I just do...

 

Erm, has anyone seen TheQ recently...?

[TheQ]

Boom!!!!

[AY Mod]

3 minutes ago, TheQ said:

Boom!!!!

 

You could be an imposter now or been turned for all we know!

[RJS1977]

On 11/10/2022 at 09:57, Andy Kirkham said:

I expect many of us can remember when the BBC had a strict policy of not mentioning brand names. I think I recall a scene of a soap opera set in a local shop with cartons of washing powder stacked on the shelf, each one with a strip of tape stuck across the product's name. When Monty Python broke this taboo it seemed extraordinarily daring.

 

Though it continued well past Monty Python and on into at least the 1980s. I can remember "makes" on Blue Peter using cornflake packets with the brand name covered in black tape (but not the rooster on the front of the packet!), sellotape being "sticky tape" etc.

Famously "Top Cat" was referred to in the Radio Times and continuity announcements as "Boss Cat" even though the cartoon itself, including the theme song, was not amended.

 

This is also why the bank in Dad's Army is usually referred to as Swallows Bank (apart from a couple of fluffed lines where it is referred to as Martins - a real bank). As Columbia Pictures were not bound by these rules, the bank is called Martins Bank in the 1971 film.

Edited October 13, 2022 by RJS1977

[Steamport Southport]

3 minutes ago, RJS1977 said:

 

Though it continued well past Monty Python and on into at least the 1980s. I can remember "makes" on Blue Peter using cornflake packets with the brand name covered in black tape (but not the rooster on the front of the packet!), sellotape being "sticky tape" etc.

Famously "Top Cat" was referred to in the Radio Times and continuity announcements as "Boss Cat" even though the cartoon itself, including the theme song, was not amended.

 

This is also why the bank in Dad's Army is usually referred to as Swallows Bank (apart from a couple of fluffed lines where it is referred to as Martins - a real bank). As Columbia Pictures were not bound by these rules, the bank is called Martins Bank in the 1971 film.

 

I remember one build on Blue Peter in the 1980s where they used an American packet of Frosted Flakes with the Kellogg's blanked out rather than a British Frosties.

 

It still had Tony the Tiger on it!

[Phatbob]

On a similar theme, but slightly off topic, I used to work for a large company whos IT department instigated a particularly sensitive naughty word detector in their e-mail system.  Consequently, we wage slaves took great sport in trying to defeat it in internal communications containing a bit of jolly banter between friends by corrupting spellings in ways we would recognise, but the naughty word detector would not.
A result of this is, for me at least, when telling some d0zy b@st@rd to p155-off, I cannot stop myself from using these alternate spellings online. ;-)

 

[KeithMacdonald]

On 11/10/2022 at 13:08, Brian Indge said:

Another one from days past I also think it involved the Blue Peter programme. They were making a model railway scene using “Beattie Plast” modelling compound but the presenters called it “Mod Rock”.

 

Mod Rock you say?

 

In an alternative reality (off screen), that “Mod Rock” was a cover story.

 

Christopher Trace, Leila Williams, Valerie Singleton and John Noakes were all hardcore Mods and fans of The Who. The four of them could regularly be found darn Sarfend seafront on their Vespa Scooters, having a go at some stray rockers. Pete Townsend was so impressed he wrote Quadrophenia in their honour. Some say Roger Daltry modelled himself on Richard Bacon, the only Blue Peter to have been fired, allegedly for an attachment to some Class A substances.

 

Here's one I filled-in earlier.

[KeithMacdonald]

33 minutes ago, Phatbob said:

A result of this is, for me at least, when telling some d0zy b@st@rd to p155-off, I cannot stop myself from using these alternate spellings online. ;-)

 

Similarly, referred to a colleague who tried to stop any changes as The Complete King Canute.

Or 'King Cnut' for short.

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/King-Cnut-The-Great/

[Bernard Lamb]

Not on the internet, but at work, we had a policy of not using the names of clients when there was a good commercial or political reason for not wanting the name to be known. Jobs would be refered to by a nickname or even just a project number. We did have a habit of dealing with some very dodgy clients.

Bernard

[LBRJ]

On the subject of computer systems that had overly sensitive naughty word detectors I seem to remember that at one point Wessex Trains wouldn't allow one to find / enter their own website ! 

[KeithMacdonald]

That electricity business based in Italy (Gen Italia) was such a great domain name.

 

[KeithMacdonald]

Does anyone else remember the website dedicated to Microsoft's Exchange Server product?

Sometimes it depended how you search for it.

MS Exchange .com was OK

MSexChange.com could get some very dubious results.

[BlackRat]

What about mentioning PECO aim the Modeller…..lol