Some programmers will tell you that sometimes they write programs which work on words for their purpose. When testing these programs they may have to think of one word to use as a test sample.
If you are not a programmer you may, at some points in your life have had to think of a random word.
Whoops. I accidentally pressed enter before that OP was finished.
My random word is…
sausage
Possibly, because I like them so much
[spoiler] especially ones made of beef rather than pork
Which is ironic considering I prefer pork meat to beef meat[/spoiler]
When asked for a random word my default backup response is always one the three funniest words in the English language:
1. Gazebo
2. Ostentatious
3. Oligarchy
Aleatory
What does the third one mean?
(Spoiler your answer)
I don’t have a random word…when testing forms I usually just ashdajghsdas it.
However, we wite a program for sending emails and it takes a lot of testing, sometimes with pictures.
The pictures I use are:
My brother likes Wink Martindale, my partner Mark Richter (coach of his favorite college football team). They don’t do as much testing as I do.
from http://www.m-w.com/
Main Entry: ol·i·gar·chy
Pronunciation: 'ä-l&-"gär-kE, 'O-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -chies
1 : government by the few
2 : a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes; also : a group exercising such control
3 : an organization under oligarchic control
Once, millions and millions of years ago (okay, it was this past April), I took my 2 and 4 year old nephews to Winnie-the-Pooh Live, and on the way back, the 4-year-old started randomly singing “Armadillo” over and over again. So I sang it back to him, in different rhythms and pitches, and he repeated it back each time.
So, my random word is (for the time being) “armadillo”.
Bingo kat. It came up a lot in my Utopia class four years ago and it is just so fun to say that I do so whenever it is (or more importantly whenever it isn’t) relevant.
Well, I certainly breach my britches anytime someone say “oligarchy.” Isn’t it just the funniest thing to hear?
But when someone says there’s a worm in my fob, that’s when the you-know-what hits the you-know-what. . . And I’m sure you know what you-know-what is. So stop laughing. Now. :mad:
Oh, they’re all random when you think about it.
Fructose. Polyglot. Myrmidon. Oleaginous. Crux.
There was this Manxy guy I knew on the internets that would always say “sausage,” so I kind of co-opted that for a swear word when I’m in a non swear word situation.
Often when someone asks me, “What do you think?” about just about anything, I tend to answer first, “War is bad,” and then answer the specific thing they’re asking about.
This just goes to show the difference between programmers and those who came from the publishing side.
Lor ipsum dolor sit amet.
plinth.
When a random word is required of me, I’ll usually really pick a random word – but usually one that is obscure, absurd, and/or good non sequitur fodder. Such as…
Flibbertigibbety
Austrolopithecus
Flub
Burqa
Sasquach
Canteloupe
Mumblebottom
Etc.
If required to supply first and last names though, I usually have a few standards (also of the absurdist variety):
Crete Bonestructure
Freep Flatulent
Seth Biftech
I’m a bit odd, you see.
I have one I use when someone utters the meaningless “What’s the good word?” greeting.Absquatulate. It means leave.
I often find myself in the position described by the OP; I’ll need to pick three words to test-populate a description field in a product table (or some such); my choices are always:
Banana
Fishcake
Sponge
If I need proper names to populate a table, it’s always:
Herbert Finkelhorn
Robert Snerden
Peter Weebell
My random word would have to be:
frit
especially since I’m likely to say it at random. 
Smurf. No reason, just smurf.
Wombat. It’s a wonderful, useful word. Useful because if I’m missing a word or name in document or code, I insert “wombat” as a placeholder and can always come back and find it. It’s handy because it never comes up in my work (financial services).
When coding and needing to use a person’s name, I use ‘Johnny Bravo’ because I love that cartoon.
If I need a date I use ‘1/1/(current year)’
If I need a word though, I use the all too exciting ‘testtesttest’