# Erm... typing made up words into your browser's address bar sometimes backfires! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 1, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004 "2009-05-01T19:02:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/1 "2009-05-01T19:02:43Z")
Partly through boredom and partly because I’m searching for unused names for my own URL I started typing made up words between www. [and.com](http://and.com) (hey, there’s one to try - [www.and.com](http://www.and.com)) Eventually I tried ‘fleem’ Warning: QUITE SERIOUSLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK. (nothing illegal, just very, erm, not safe at all for work) www . fleem . com ---
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/2 "2009-05-01T22:37:52Z")
Wow. That is surprisingly not safe for work. ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/3 "2009-05-02T01:41:37Z")
My goodness! Girls are sure cute, aren’t they/ ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/4 "2009-05-02T02:08:06Z")
> [@Daylate](#): > > My goodness! Girls are sure cute, aren’t they/ They’re also so white. I never realized how almost all girls are white. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/5 "2009-05-02T02:14:31Z")
There is _porn_ on the _Internet_? I am shocked, _shocked_. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bruce\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/6 "2009-05-02T02:42:42Z")
Good find sir. ---
**Author:** ![Jenny\_Linsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Jenny\_Linsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenny_Linsky)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/7 "2009-05-02T02:57:56Z")
I don’t think I get the lollipop-as-dildo thing. It just looks like a yeast infection on a stick to me. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/8 "2009-05-02T05:01:56Z")
I thought I saw space docking on there. I hope I am wrong.:o [del]SSG Schwartz[/del] Some other guy ---
**Author:** ![A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Spoonful_of_Awesome)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/9 "2009-05-02T06:12:26Z")
Eh. Depends on where you work, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Casserole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b77776/32.png) [@Casserole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casserole)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/10 "2009-05-02T15:15:03Z")
Hey, this website actually locked up my computer. That’s pretty special 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/11 "2009-05-02T15:24:45Z")
Typing made up words into the browser window is now my new hobby. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/12 "2009-05-02T15:54:31Z")
> [@Bruce\_Wayne](#): > > Good find sir. Just don’t start thinking there’s big fat n00d g1fz a plenty behind every thumbnail. Most of these sites are just click generators - thumbnail pages leading to more thumbnail pages leading to etc etc, with _just_ enough actual content scattered around to keep you clicking. Eventually all roads lead to someone’s Join page or another. Or so I’m told! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/13 "2009-05-02T16:43:44Z")
So what was your “fleem” going to be about? Interestingly, “[fleem.net](http://fleem.net)” appears to be an online gaming community. Coincidence? Or simple efficiency? As it happens, “fleem” actually is a real word: it’s Middle English for “phlegm.” Which has potential applicability for both internet porn, and gamers! So go for it **Lobsang**! There are other domain suffixes yet available! For example, “[fleem.us](http://fleem.us)” appears to be wide open, so to speak. Coax all your phlegmy, porn-fueled gamer audience to your new site, and invite them to get their fleem on! ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/14 "2009-05-02T17:20:12Z")
I hit something on my first try. I give you: [spreen.com](http://www.spreen.com/). ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/15 "2009-05-02T19:37:19Z")
Isn’t fleem something you have too much of in your spoo, according to a Dilbert cartoon? (hey, spoo . com isn’t safe for work either! Let’s see how tolerant my college is.) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/16 "2009-05-02T19:54:45Z")
At least in the case of spoo . com you get a ‘safe’ landing page. fleem just leads you right to the ‘goods’. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/17 "2009-05-02T20:03:15Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > So what was your “fleem” going to be about? > > Interestingly, “[fleem.net](http://fleem.net)” appears to be an online gaming community. Coincidence? Or simple efficiency? > > As it happens, “fleem” actually is a real word: it’s Middle English for “phlegm.” Which has potential applicability for both internet porn, and gamers! > > So go for it **Lobsang**! There are other domain suffixes yet available! For example, “[fleem.us](http://fleem.us)” appears to be wide open, so to speak. Coax all your phlegmy, porn-fueled gamer audience to your new site, and invite them to get their fleem on! Well I don’t know what the website is going to be _for_ yet, and the word ‘fleem’ was just one of those words you can create from nowhere that don’t (as far as you’re concerned) mean anything particular. My reasoning in this particular case was that a website url that describes what the website is for (even if there is a ‘for’ which there isn’t) would be boring. So if I can find a word that yields a cool url (such as [broomsporg.com](http://broomsporg.com)) without having to describe what the website is for, then that would save having to find a url that ‘fits’. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/18 "2009-05-02T20:36:38Z")
[willy.com](http://willy.com) makes systems and machines to process garment labels. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/19 "2009-05-03T00:39:31Z")
Mommy, why’s that man hurting the lady like that? Her face looks funny! ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004/20 "2009-05-03T13:37:53Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Well I don’t know what the website is going to be _for_ yet, and the word ‘fleem’ was just one of those words you can create from nowhere that don’t (as far as you’re concerned) mean anything particular. > > My reasoning in this particular case was that a website url that describes what the website is for (even if there is a ‘for’ which there isn’t) would be boring. So if I can find a word that yields a cool url (such as [broomsporg.com](http://broomsporg.com)) without having to describe what the website is for, then that would save having to find a url that ‘fits’. I take it you’re not aware that “broomsporg” is the generally accepted abbreviation for “broom sphincter-penetrating orgasm,” then. Well, it’s generally accepted among the broomsporging community anyway. See www.broomsporg.org for details. (Warning: NSFW) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erm-typing-made-up-words-into-your-browsers-address-bar-sometimes-backfires/495004.md?page=2)