Sorry about this but I am bored.
I have just posted a reference in ATM thread to a recognised theoretical physicist - a Russian guy called Mr Lif****z
and up came all these asterisks!

That got me to wondering how many perfectly clean and perfectly innocuous words/ phrases (with references) we could come up with which would produce asterisks.

In UK I live in Essex. I also live in the middle east where the internet is censored. consequently, any site in essex, middlesex etc was banned because of its sexual connotations. Its ok now and (as you see on this site too).
So the problem for the student is....

Think of a word/phrase that produces asterisks.
The rules are
1) It must be clean.
2) You must provide a link to the actual word/ phrase
3) I musn't be banned
Any takers.
As a taster

cheers,
Lyndon

change of rules,
If the web address contains the word as in mi**** then the links don't work.
Any suggestions to the rules?
Cheers,
Lyndon

change of rules,
If the web address contains the word as in mi**** then the links don't work.
The word is mis..hit by the way
Any suggestions to the rules?
Cheers,
Lyndon

ampersand#115; = s
&pound104; = h

But replace "ampersand" and "pound" by their respective characters.

www.mis-hit.com (sort of)

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Of course since it is a German(ic) name, substituting sch for sh is allowed: Lifschitz!

Of course the compound word for bovine excrement is NOT a German surname, so misspelling it to get around this board's rules is verboten.

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The bar has been lowered for the promotion of ATM ideas; the bar for the acceptance of ATM ideas must remain high.

no, not allowed.
No replacements.
It must be a perfectly clean word or phrase that any parent would have no objection to their children seeing.
It must stand alone without replacement.
In Egypt there is a place called Cush.
Consequently anyone coming from there is a cu****e.
(all words from the webster on line dictionary)
Lets keep it academic.
Cheers,
lyndon

Is really not allowed?

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Clever,
so why is a person from Cush ie a "Co****e" not allowed on ths site?
Cheers,
Lyndon

Of course a person from wa****a

would have problems if they came onto this site.
Cheers,
Lyndon

So just as a clarification, mention of groups using an otherwise unacceptable word as proper name wouldn't fit the game, such as “in the 70's and early 80's, the two bicycle gangs Bull**** and Hell's Angels waged a long war over the control of the drugs trade”.

On the other hand, it's difficult to see what could be offensive about S****horpe


To make a link containing the replaced word, you can url-escape one of the letters, eg. '%63' for 's', ie. '5' followed by the ascii code in hex.
html-entity escaping (ampersand-number-semicolon or ampersand-hash-hexnumber-semicolon) shouldn't be used in url's, even if several browsers support this misbegotten wretch of an ad-hoc standard.

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