Profanity

I used to work for an organisation who were very anal about profanity. They had a profanity filter on emails and if your email had a dirty word in it, your email would be blocked and you would be sent a terse auto-generated email stating that you had used profanity and it was against the company's standards.

I only got one of these emails once. Which is very surprising, because I am a gutter mouth. The day I got one, I freaked. I was just waiting for the tap on the shoulder and the escort out of the building. I am paranoid about stuff like that. Also cause all this kind of security crap used to get crammed down our throats every second.

One of my gorgeous friends also worked for said organisation and constantly teased me about my paranoia. I think she took joy in it. I told her when I got the profanity email. She laughed it off "Big deal! I get several of those a day!" Or something to that effect. She was bad ass.

Another friend I worked with used to work in the department who created the database of rude words. What a job. Apparently there was enough to make a sailor blush.

Anyway, I am straying off my topic. Gorgeous friend emails me quite often these days. I have to watch it when I email her, because I don't want my email to be blocked because of filth. So, I had quite a dilemma when we were talking about soccer teams I should go for and I was talking about Arsenal. Crap! This email wouldn't get through. So, I took the trusty approach of Ars*nal.

As it turns out, she emailed me back to say that Arsenal gets through the profanity filter without having to change anything! So of course, she had to include:

"I made an arsenal of myself"
"Geez he's an arsenal hole"

and the pearler...

"That was rooted up the arsenal"