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** Among other words censored are fork (which the mods eventually changed their minds about) and hot tub (changed to "swamp"). In guilds, apostrophes are often, but not always, censored. The icing on the cake? TVT, a nickname for the board mods (stands for The Viacom Team, expressing displeasure at the fact that the site was bought out by Viacom), is now changed to "my socks".
*** The [[Crowning Moment of Funny|funniest]] and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|best]] example was when TNT decided to do a grand [[Take That]] at ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'', wordfiltering Twilight into [[My Little Pony]], Stephenie Meyer into [[The Simpsons (animation)|Krusty the Clown]], Bella Swann into Clara Chatham, Edward Cullen into Roxton Colchester III, Jacob Black into Jordie, vampire into Xweetok, werewolf into Werelupe, and at least one of the actors from the movie into [[Totally Radical|Nick Neopia]].
*** This one borders on [[Four Chan|4chan]] wordfiltering, where "emo" became "bosnian" and where "noes" became "exploitable"...
* ''Truth And Beauty Bombs'', formerly the ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' forum, had a number of humorous filters. "ladies and gentlemen" became "cats and kittens", "blowjob" became "lingering kiss on a CRAZY part of the body" and "cock" became "rooster OR reproductive organ (context permitting)". And, as a pun on the word 'filter', "saltwater" became "desalinated, potable water".
* The ''[[Xkcdxkcd]]'' forums have been known to have fun with this. Among other things, words such as "lol' and "Chuck Norris" are filtered to suitably humorous alternatives. One xkcd IRC channels also considers AOL to be a swear.
** The "suitably humorous alternative" to 'lol' -- "This cheese is burning me!"—then became part of the forum's vocabulary. Posters will write "The cheese really burned me today" for a particularly funny strip, or "My cheese is lukewarm."
** Another set of filters included the word "filters", replaced with "cheesegraters". And replaced any instance of "also" with "ALSO YOU GUYS:". If you decide to ''actually type'' "ALSO YOU GUYS:", you end up with [[Department of Redundancy Department|"ALSO YOU GUYS: YOU GUYS:"]].