2012-10-30

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2012-10-30

Title text: 2012-10-30

Votey

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[Describe panel here]

True weinersmith tales:

I had this idea that all political speech could be improved.

If you changed

Everything- but

The nouns to " nurble, you

Could still

Follow

Everything

One of my twitter followers, Jeff Lee posted a quick and dirty program: The Political Speech Nurbler.

<?Php

11 Extremety quick-and-dirty political speech nurbler (changes everything except nouns to

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suggested by Zach Weinersmith (https://twitter.com/ZachWeiner/status/261840134218063

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11 Requres PHP, and part-of-speech txt from the "Part of Speech Database", available at

http://wordlist.sourceforge. net

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Usage: php nurbler.php input-file

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if ($argc != 2) exit("Usage: php {$argv[0]} input-file\n");

if (ifile_exists(Sargv[1])) exit("Error: could not find {$argv[i]}\n"); $part array();

$pos file("part-of-speech.txt");

foreach($pos as $line) {

if (preg_match("/<[^\t]*)\t(.*)$/", $line, $parts $part[trim(strtolower($parts[1l))] $parts[2];

}

}

$infile implode("", file("sotu.txt"));

while ($infile) (

if Sinfile, $matches >> {

echo nurble(Smatches[1] $matches[2];

$infile trim( substr( $infile, strlen(Smatches[1])+strlen(Smatches[2])));

function nurble( $what

global Spart;

$check -trim(strtolower($what))

if (lisset($part[$check])) return "nurble"; 11 better to nurble unknown words

return (strpos(Spart[Scheck], "N")

Votey Transcript

This transcript was generated by a bot: The text was scraped using AWS's Textract, which may have errors. Complete transcripts describe what happens in each panel — here are some good examples to get you started (1) (2).

[Describe panel here]

You nurble nurble nurble idiocy.

Nurble you!

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