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The toy emitting "ut oh" on invalid input reminded me of a phonics toy - I think it was either a schoolbus or caterpillar, where phonemes could be pressed and i

The toy emitting "ut oh" on invalid input reminded me of a phonics toy - I think it was either a schoolbus or caterpillar, where phonemes could be pressed and it would sound them out "g-oo-d" "d-aw-g" - but if as a bored parent you tried "sh-ih-t" or similar it would emit "sh-<heeheehee>" I always wondered if it was localized per-market.

bombcar 3y ago
This was likely in response to things like the famous phone incident - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebv51QNm2Bk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebv51QNm2Bk If you were the guy coding one of those, and you saw that, I could easily imagine putting in a special case, just for fun. The aha, I could fix that we often feel.
- Dwedit 3y ago
  There was an infamous case of some obscure Macintosh educational software that had a feature where it would read back text that you typed in. It even included a swear filter to prevent it from saying bad words. However, there was also a race condition/out of bounds memory read issue that caused it to stop reading the text you typed in, and instead start reading words directly from the swear list. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZQmL-PKr8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZQmL-PKr8Y
  - glitchc 3y ago
    Bonus points to you!
Cerium 3y ago
As an opposite experience I bought my daughter a dump truck at Costco and got a good laugh out of it - it has a bunch of phrases, many are common. One very uncommon one is "Wow, that was a big dump!".
- compootr 3y ago
  reminds me of the better call saul toilet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR1m29cNVsc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR1m29cNVsc
vorticalbox 3y ago
I have one that's a dog with the letters on it and my son was happily pressing away, turns out of you hit "b" then "I" It says "b" "I" "itch".
- vundercind 3y ago
  Bonus humor that it’s a dog. You could just be trying to accurately refer to it!
Vedor 3y ago
When I was a kid, I had a toy gun that would start with kind of distorted phrases, then continued with shooting sounds. I think it took me a couple of years before I understand that the voice was yelling something akin to "Baldy! Get the f... over there! <shooting noises>"
pests 3y ago
This reminds me of the video I think Technology Connections did on old TV censoring equipment back in the 70s. I think it ended up being a simple filter over the subtitle information or similar but thought of this from your comment.

bombcar 3y ago

This was likely in response to things like the famous phone incident - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebv51QNm2Bk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebv51QNm2Bk If you were the guy coding one of those, and you saw that, I could easily imagine putting in a special case, just for fun. The aha, I could fix that we often feel.

Dwedit 3y ago
There was an infamous case of some obscure Macintosh educational software that had a feature where it would read back text that you typed in. It even included a swear filter to prevent it from saying bad words. However, there was also a race condition/out of bounds memory read issue that caused it to stop reading the text you typed in, and instead start reading words directly from the swear list. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZQmL-PKr8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZQmL-PKr8Y
- glitchc 3y ago
  Bonus points to you!

Cerium 3y ago

As an opposite experience I bought my daughter a dump truck at Costco and got a good laugh out of it - it has a bunch of phrases, many are common. One very uncommon one is "Wow, that was a big dump!".

compootr 3y ago
reminds me of the better call saul toilet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR1m29cNVsc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR1m29cNVsc

vorticalbox 3y ago

I have one that's a dog with the letters on it and my son was happily pressing away, turns out of you hit "b" then "I" It says "b" "I" "itch".

vundercind 3y ago
Bonus humor that it’s a dog. You could just be trying to accurately refer to it!

Vedor 3y ago

When I was a kid, I had a toy gun that would start with kind of distorted phrases, then continued with shooting sounds. I think it took me a couple of years before I understand that the voice was yelling something akin to "Baldy! Get the f... over there! <shooting noises>"

pests 3y ago

This reminds me of the video I think Technology Connections did on old TV censoring equipment back in the 70s. I think it ended up being a simple filter over the subtitle information or similar but thought of this from your comment.