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Nope. There is no such thing as an average sense of humor. At a company I worked for we got a lot of crap for sending out passwords like "invisible*negro" and "murdered#pakistani". The odds are not as low as you think.

Hell, we got crap for adding the tags "Russian" and "Jew" to people who were, in fact, from Russia and Jewish.




Agh! Good point! Some kind of regex should definitely be included.




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