I recently installed Randall Munroe’s XKCD word substitutions Chrome extension. My only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner, because now I can wake up to news like this:
Boingers, it’s time to make the news of this bitter year a bit more palatable. More absurd. Funnier. Perhaps even more truthful. To that end, share your favorite word substitutions here.
Go.
Muslim/Islamic: Unicorn
Mexican: Mermaid
Great Again: Say “WTF?!”
campaign → death march
election → popularity contest
senator → overlord
convention → shindiggity
birth certificate → bill of sale
“shindiggity” is an adjectival* form of “shindig”
*or summat
You really want to auto-substitute that into a conversation about post-Obama elections?
shindig → shindiggity
post-Obama → post-hope
(ps— the extension has a blacklist)
(a) new poll(s) → apantomantic divination
thus, “shindiggity” => shindiggitygity =>shindiggitygitygity …
Just a couple quick notes on using the extension:
Substitutions are not case-sensitive.
Substitutions are verbatim. Which makes intuitive sense. Example:
gecko → stock trader
This means that ‘gecko’ will be substituted only for the exact, isolated phrase ‘stock trader’. This substitution rule will not apply to ‘stock traders’ nor the mere word ‘stock’. This prevents the sort of problem depicted in @OtherMichael’s post above.
trader → DJ
biscuit → stock
gecko → stock trader
Input: The stock trader was surprised to see Trader Joe’s listed on the stock index.
Output: The gecko was surprised to see DJ Joe’s listed on the biscuit index.
Have fun!
{ ISIS, ISIL, Islamic State } → Daesh
Daesh → Daesholes
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