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by pwason 3126 days ago
Not really a bug, but..

An early release of our product (not to be named), contained a database that contained a perl script that was written out to a web server. The person who took over maintaining this script looked at the original author's code and put a comment line in containing the descriptive phrase "Chicken Goat Fuck Logic" (aka "CGF Logic"). We accidentally forgot to remove that comment before producing the "gold" CD.

A couple of weeks later, a very large national youth organization (also not to be named) contacted us, saying they would be unable to use our software, because their CyberNanny software had detected swear words in the output.

Arguably, if this hadn't happened, we would have become Amazon before Amazon became Amazon. Ooops!

2 comments

Rather humorously, it appears the person who wrote the script created this website to commemorate the birth of CGF Logic : http://chickengoatfuck.com/
why not named?