Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999)

Scoundreller•about 8 hours 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...

tosti•about 8 hours ago

https://www.pakin.org/complaint?title=Mr.&firstname=Anderson...

SiempreViernes•about 6 hours ago

Amazing, 100% real human complaint according to a state of the art* AI detection method!

*: Ranked 2 on the google proxy I used, as the best SEO optimister just refused to return a result at all.

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•about 9 hours 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.

whacked_new•about 10 hours 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.

YeGoblynQueenne•about 7 hours ago

>> How does one come up with such a string of words?

By spending all day thinking about them instead of running a country.

bityard•about 9 hours 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.

throw0101a•about 9 hours ago

See perhaps Shakespearean Insults Mug:

* https://philosophersguild.com/products/shakespearean-insults...

* https://www.amazon.com/Shakespearean-Insults-Coffee-Mug-Shak...

ButlerianJihad•about 9 hours ago

Altho' it be not a living CGI script, mayhap the Internet Archive shall regale us with nigh-on 250 bespoke insults, plucked from the very copper tendrils of ye olde webbe: https://web.archive.org/web/19990515000000*/http://www.webwe...

  Thou unmuzzled sheep-biting ratsbane !

psunavy03•about 9 hours ago

Wow. It's been probably 20 years since I thought of that thing . . .

zwaps•about 10 hours ago

Hey, don’t copy my daily affirmations

mrweasel•about 9 hours 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...

stblack•about 3 hours ago

Presaged the President of the United States, 27-years ago.

citizenfishy•about 8 hours ago

I wrote this many years ago:-

https://apps.repebble.com/rude-time_543459b072a84da55500004c

sehugg•about 8 hours ago

I wrote a conversational insult generator in AppleSoft BASIC, inspired by a program called "Abuse" that I saw advertised in a magazine, and of course by Eliza.

ChrisMarshallNY•about 9 hours 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.

karim79•about 8 hours ago

I know we could easily code this by scraping but I would like to see an official REST API for this inspired service.

ljiljana•about 9 hours ago

Y2K Certified too!

daoboy•about 8 hours ago

So glad to see this preserved.

It was sad to discover zombocom finally died an undignified death earlier this year.

arthurcolle•about 8 hours ago

Zombo still works

daoboy•about 7 hours ago

The domain was purchased and redesigned. It still exists but lost something ineffable in the process.

sphars•about 2 hours ago

Along with all the other wonderfully, nonsense, single-purpose sites we've lost over the years. Some documented here: https://theuselessweb.com/sites-we-lost/

srean•about 9 hours 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.

specproc•about 9 hours ago

Now that's what I call programming.

Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999)

⚡ Community Insights

Discussion (25 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews