20 Jul
2004
20 Jul
'04
3:49 p.m.
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:55:16 -0400
Roger Merchberger <zmerch(a)30below.com> wrote:
Rumor has it that ed sharpe may have mentioned these
words:
It might or might not be an Urban Legend, but I recall hearing a few
years back about a 'tourettes syndrome' phenomenon in an electronic
speaking doll. Apparently it was a doll that could be programmed to say
words through some sort of digital link. It also had a dictionary of
'bad' words build into ROM and a design to block speaking said terms.
Due to some form of firmware bug, the doll instead crashed into a mode
that would speak the words on this 'forbidden' list.
Maybe somebody else can verify or debunk this story. I remember hearing
about it a few years ago.
What is the foulest thing you have ever made a
digitalker chip set
say?!
Of course (along with probably a goodly number of folks here) I had
programmed a couple of the more "standard" four-letter-words into
it... but what I did with it once [when I was a teen] was *evil*...
;^>