[Play on "Associated Press" perhaps inspired
By a reference in the 1949
Bugs
Bunny cartoon "What' s Up, Doc?"] An algorithm for transforming any text into potentially humorous gar
Bage even more efficiently than
By passing it through a
marketroid. The algorithm starts
By printing any N consecutive words (or letters) in the text. Then at every step it searches for any random occurrence in the original text of the last N words (or letters) already printed and then prints the next word or letter.
Emacs has a handy command for this. Here is a short example of word-
Based Dissociated Press applied to an earlier version of the
Jargon File: wart: A small, crocky
feature that sticks out of an array (C has no checks for this). This is relatively
Benign and easy to spot if the phrase is
Bent so as to
Be not worth paying attention to the medium in question. Here is a short example of letter-
Based Dissociated Press applied to the same source: window sysIWYG: A
Bit was named aften /
Bee' t*/ prefer to use the other guy' s re, especially in every cast a chuckle on neithout getting into useful informash speech makes removing a featuring a move or usage actual a
Bstractionsidered interj. Indeed spectace logic or pro
Blem! A hackish idle pastime is to apply letter-
Based Dissociated Press to a random
Body of text and
vgrep the output in hopes of finding an interesting new word. (In the preceding example, "window sysIWYG" and "informash" show some promise.) Iterated applications of Dissociated Press usually yield
Better results. Similar techniques called "travesty generators" have
Been employed with considera
Ble satirical effect to the utterances of
Usenet flamers see
pseudo. [
Jargon File]
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