Scunthorpe Problem

We all know automatic profanity filters on message boards and elsewhere on the Internet can be ridiculously and unimaginatively strict. But the problem is much worse: Sometimes, it sees swearwords inside other words. Thus, you can get hilarious Malapropers — like "hecko" instead of "hello", or "teasthingy" instead of "teaspoon" — or else you get results like "cl***" instead of "class". This is known as the Scunthorpe Problem, after an incident in 1996 when AOL's rather simple-minded dirty-word f