[Play on "Associat
ed Press" perhaps inspir
ed by a reference in the 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon "What' s Up, Doc?"] An algorithm for transforming any text into potentially humorous garbage 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 print
ed and then prints the next word or letter.
Emacs has a handy command for this. Here is a short example of word-bas
ed Dissociat
ed Press appli
ed 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 m
edium in question. Here is a short example of letter-bas
ed Dissociat
ed Press appli
ed to the same source: window sysIWYG: A bit was nam
ed 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 abstractionsider
ed interj. Inde
ed spectace logic or problem! A hackish idle pastime is to apply letter-bas
ed Dissociat
ed Press to a random body of text and
vgrep the output in hopes of finding an interesting new word. (In the prec
eding example, "window sysIWYG" and "informash" show some promise.) Iterat
ed applications of Dissociat
ed Press usually yield better results. Similar techniques call
ed "travesty generators" have been employ
ed with considerable satirical effect to the utterances of
Usenet flamers see
pseudo. [
Jargon File]
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