Dreampepper - for your amusement

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	Thu, Jul. 10th, 2008 02:04 pm

for your amusement

This is a screen-capture I just took of the Dictionary.com entry for inchoate:

excuse me, smart ads, you have a problem

It looks perfectly reasonable, doesn't it? Until you notice this:

thanks to my co-worker Keith for pointing it out.

Tags: hah, the internet is scary, wtf

gunn

la femme stygian

	Thu, Jul. 10th, 2008 09:35 pm (UTC)

GACK!

porphyre

Bloody Foxtongue

	Thu, Jul. 10th, 2008 10:51 pm (UTC)

WHY, INTERNET, WHY?

zenrender

	Fri, Jul. 11th, 2008 04:12 pm (UTC)

My guess? It took the word "fully developed" in negative context, and decided that THAT was the most "popular" linkage for adwords.

Still. Yeep.

I remember an ad a few years back about some sorta fire sale (banner ad) and it was running directly above a rather heart-wrenching story about a couple of kids who'd died in a housefire.

Remember, kids: just because it's related, doesn't mean they go together.

porphyre

Bloody Foxtongue

	Mon, Jul. 14th, 2008 12:26 am (UTC)

Except did you see what Jill found?

Then I looked up "Children" and got things like, "Children Bible Crafts" and "Children Pictures." Good wholesome things. :)

"Child" however, yields "Battered Women" and "Domestic Violence."

inri33

Andrew

	Thu, Jul. 10th, 2008 10:51 pm (UTC)

You work with Keith now? I did not know that.

porphyre

Bloody Foxtongue

	Thu, Jul. 10th, 2008 10:52 pm (UTC)

He sits right across from me at my new job. We can see the top of your work building from our window.

themythicalman

Jeremy Tuttle

	Fri, Jul. 11th, 2008 12:35 am (UTC)

Ummmmmmmmmm .... maybe it's a reference to definition number one? That's about as much thought as I'm willing to put into that one. Sheesh.

porphyre

Bloody Foxtongue

	Fri, Jul. 11th, 2008 01:06 am (UTC)

Horribly, I can only see "hollow of a yoke into which a pole is fitted" as the most likely culprit.

cloud_atlas

Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies...

	Fri, Jul. 11th, 2008 04:40 am (UTC)

Just ew. And weird. And a lot of WHAT THE FUCK?

themythicalman

Jeremy Tuttle

	Fri, Jul. 11th, 2008 11:22 pm (UTC)

One word: slivers.

skonen_blades

	Fri, Jul. 11th, 2008 12:40 am (UTC)

Shoot. Colour me stupid. It seems like a non-sequitur to me. Am I missing something.

porphyre

Bloody Foxtongue

	Fri, Jul. 11th, 2008 01:05 am (UTC)

It's got us completely baffled.

kindelingboy

Michael Elliott

	Fri, Jul. 11th, 2008 12:54 am (UTC)

I scratched my head for a long, long time at this one....wow, just wow.

porphyre

Bloody Foxtongue

	Fri, Jul. 11th, 2008 01:06 am (UTC)

Any ideas? I'm stumped.

cloud_atlas

Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies...

	Fri, Jul. 11th, 2008 04:39 am (UTC)

Oh wow. It took me so long to see what you were talking about. LOL.

Kept reading the definition: "I don't get it? What's so shocking/funny?"

porphyre

Bloody Foxtongue

	Mon, Jul. 14th, 2008 12:27 am (UTC)

You'll understand when you're older. ;)

mjtheanarchist

mary jane

	Fri, Jul. 11th, 2008 04:47 am (UTC)

Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

superjill

	Fri, Jul. 11th, 2008 07:33 pm (UTC)

in·cho·ate·ly makes me think of chocolatey. Mmmmm. Chocolatey. :D

The Ads are weirdness. I looked it up and got the same. So, not a hoax you're a pullin. :)

Then I looked up "Children" and got things like, "Children Bible Crafts" and "Children Pictures." Good wholesome things. :)

"Child" however, yields "Battered Women" and "Domestic Violence."

How? How do they decide what correlates?