Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999)

(alanbellows.com)

21 points | by DamnInteresting 2 days ago

11 comments

  • Scoundreller 1 minute ago
    I'm partial to this complaint generator, on the internet since 1994 and semi-regularly updated since: https://www.pakin.org/complaint

    here's a 1 paragraph complaint about Dang (which will be different on every load): https://www.pakin.org/complaint?title=&firstname=Dang&middle...

  • mrweasel 8 minutes ago
    While it has now be retired, I was also partial to the "Theo" mode in mg for insults.

    https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/checkout/src/usr.bin/mg/Attic/the...

  • bityard 59 minutes ago
    The modern web seems to know nothing about it at this point, but back when CGI scripts were a new curiosity, there was a Shakespearean Insult Generator which was popular and quite a lot of fun.
  • ChrisMarshallNY 32 minutes ago
    I won't link it, here (the last time I did, it got flagged), but look up Guy Macon's Insult File.

    Not a single word that would have tripped the content filters of the time.

  • ljiljana 14 minutes ago
    Y2K Certified too!
  • olivierestsage 45 minutes ago
    Reminds me of the “Insultinator” toy from the 90s. I will forever have the phrase “you’re a totally gross, boring nerd” imprinted on my consciousness.
  • zwaps 1 hour ago
    Hey, don’t copy my daily affirmations
  • srean 42 minutes ago
    They have a nice ring and cadence. One could string some of them along into a Pythonic poem to be recited from castle tops.
  • whacked_new 1 hour ago
    This is great! I remember being extremely impressed by Boris Johnson's "great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies" insult. How does one come up with such a string of words? I would've used this as a study resource.
  • DamnInteresting 2 days ago
    I found this in a dusty corner of my code archive, and it made me laugh, and thought it might do the same for others. I wrote this when I was first learning a fancy new language called "Javascript." Apologies for the juvenile humor. Sometimes NSFW.
    • nstents 44 minutes ago
      Reading Damn Interesting every day, I had no idea. Someone used your insults on AOL, or something like that, repeatedly. Thank you for the laughs.
  • specproc 23 minutes ago
    Now that's what I call programming.