[Play on "Asso
Ciated Press" perhaps inspired by a referen
Ce in the 1949 Bugs Bunny
Cartoon "What' s Up, Do
C?"] An algorithm for transforming any text into potentially humorous garbage even more effi
Ciently than by passing it through a
marketroid. The algorithm starts by printing any N
Conse
Cutive words (or letters) in the text. Then at every step it sear
Ches for any random o
CCurren
Ce 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 Disso
Ciated Press applied to an earlier version of the
Jargon File: wart: A small,
Cro
Cky
feature that sti
Cks out of an array (
C has no
Che
Cks 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 Disso
Ciated Press applied to the same sour
Ce: window sysIWYG: A bit was named aften /bee' t*/ prefer to use the other guy' s re, espe
Cially in every
Cast a
Chu
Ckle on neithout getting into useful informash spee
Ch makes removing a featuring a move or usage a
Ctual abstra
Ctionsidered interj. Indeed spe
Cta
Ce logi
C or problem! A ha
Ckish idle pastime is to apply letter-based Disso
Ciated Press to a random body of text and
vgrep the output in hopes of finding an interesting new word. (In the pre
Ceding example, "window sysIWYG" and "informash" show some promise.) Iterated appli
Cations of Disso
Ciated Press usually yield better results. Similar te
Chniques
Called "travesty generators" have been employed with
Considerable satiri
Cal effe
Ct to the utteran
Ces of
Usenet flamers see
pseudo. [
Jargon File]
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