# Casualties of the electronic age

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casualties-of-the-electronic-age/88567>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 20, 2001, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casualties-of-the-electronic-age/88567 "2001-10-20T07:30:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Bossk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@Bossk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bossk)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casualties-of-the-electronic-age/88567/1 "2001-10-20T07:30:51Z")

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The phrase “Barnyard Fun” used to give me warm, fuzzy feelings. Not anymore. Damn you, Internet!

Anyone else have examples of shanghaied phrases now used to peddle porn?

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**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casualties-of-the-electronic-age/88567/2 "2001-10-20T18:35:43Z")

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I think [http://www.whitehouse.com](http://www.whitehouse.com) may be a questionable site, but I don’t feel like checking it at the moment.

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**Author:** ![AndrewL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@AndrewL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndrewL)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casualties-of-the-electronic-age/88567/3 "2001-10-20T18:50:41Z")

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“Watersports”

(shudder)

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casualties-of-the-electronic-age/88567/4 "2001-10-20T18:53:59Z")

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“Scat” means more than “Go away”…

Eurgh… 😛

jayjay

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**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casualties-of-the-electronic-age/88567/5 "2001-10-20T23:33:07Z")

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**Spam**.

The name will no longer conjure up a meal involving some difficult to identify hunk of congealed gelatinous chunks of whatever infested slab of meat substitute.

Now, we have a bazillion pictures of people’s genitals who would never think of walking down the street naked yet see nothing out of kilter with plastering their privates all over the monitor screens of millions.

Go figure.