Tonight I was changing some settings on my personal blog when I was prompted to type in a CAPTCHA word to verify I’m not a spamming bot.

Normally the words are meaningless words such as “BRASSI” or “LILLI”. This time the word was a bit more recognizable:

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The word was actually “Licksak” if you can believe it. I can picture the person who built the CAPTCHA functionality for Blogger throwing in a few words like this to amuse himself/herself. Vulgar enough to be funny, but not too vulgar that it won’t get past QA.

I know what you’re thinking, CAPTCHA words are computer generated. But I still prefer to picture a computer geek, alone in a dark, closed room deviously thinking of vulgar terms to sneak in.