{"id":9084,"date":"2006-02-21T10:25:03","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T17:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/02\/21\/dirty-harry-need-not-apply.html"},"modified":"2006-02-21T10:25:03","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T17:25:03","slug":"dirty_harry_nee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/21\/dirty_harry_nee.html","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Harry need not apply"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yahoo — in a fit of politically correct pique, one assumes — is banning the name “Allah” from its Yahoo IDs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That includes those letters inside of another name, as someone named Callah<\/em>an discovered.<\/p>\n

Nor will Yahoo! accept yahoo, osama or binladen. But it will accept god, messiah, jesus, jehova, buddah, satan and both priest and pedophile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Spiffy.<\/p>\n

Someone has prevoiusly examined this in more detail<\/a>. Ah, the joys of trying to come up with a banned words list that doesn’t have silly exceptions (and silly inclusions).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yahoo — in a fit of politically correct pique, one assumes — is banning the name “Allah” from its Yahoo IDs. 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