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** [[SchroedingersCat Schroedinger Scat]] (Probably some thought experiment involving Erwin Schrödinger's toilet)

*** [[ChandlersLaw Chandler Slaw]]

*** [[MoffsLaw Moff Slaw]]

** [[TooKinkyToTorture Took Inky To Torture]] (Poor Inky!)

** Specifically, they were websites (all of which have either been taken down or redirected at this stage, sadly):
*** http://www.whorepresents.com [[spoiler:which you use to find out which agent represents a given actor]]
*** Former http://www.expertsexchange.com [[spoiler:where experts exchange their details in order to consult for one another; since moved to http://www.experts-exchange.com/]]
*** http://www.penisland.net [[spoiler: possibly the trope namer]]
*** Former http://www.powergenitalia.com [[spoiler: an Italian company that manufactures battery chargers. It changed the URL of its website to http://www.batterychargerpowergen.it to avoid misunderstandings]]
** Also mentioned was http://www.therapistfinder.com (for finding therapists, of course) - all of which were presented, if memory serves, during an episode entitled 'Cummingtonite' - which is a type of rock, named after Mr Cummington.
*** Pen Island was a joke site that was set up for exactly this purpose; the others were genuine.

** http://www.therapistfinder.com [[spoiler:Therapist Finder]]
** http://www.whorepresents.com [[spoiler:Who Represents]]

** "Flick" is also used, though [[http://www.peterdavid.net/index.php/2009/05/01/bleepin-comics/ comics writer Peter David recalls]] an actual angry letter about a villain saying, “[[LargeHam I SHALL DESTROY YOU AS EASILY AS I WOULD FLICK AN INSECT OFF MY SHOULDER.]]”

* The URL to the official website of ''RepoTheGeneticOpera'', as noticed by quite a few people, is '''[[spoiler:re]]poop[[spoiler:era]].com'''. Apparently noticeable enough that 'repo-opera' is now a redirect.

* [[http://www.snopes.com/language/mistakes/dord.asp Do]][[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dord rd]] was listed as a synonym for density for a few years in Miriam-Webster's New International Dictionary. When an editor tried to find the etymology of the word, he couldn't find any evidence that "dord" was actually a word. It eventually transpired that the source of "dord" was a slip of paper, reading "'''D or d''': cont./density", which was intended for the entries for upper and lowercase 'd'. This phantom word propagated across dictionaries for a few years afterwards.

* Played with multiple times in the [[SaturdayNightLive Celebrity Jeopardy!]] sketches, although it's strongly implied that SeanConnery[[hottip:* :played by Darrell Hammond]] was just [[RuleOfFunny being a dick]] as it's somewhat hard to read "An Album Cover" as "Anal Bum Cover".
** Other examples from those sketches are "The Pen Is Mightier", read by Connery as "The Penis Mightier"; "S Words", which was read as "[[ILikeSwords Swords]]"; "Catch The Semen" for "Catch These Men"; and "Jap Anus Relations", for "Japan-US Relations". [[NormMacDonald Burt Reynolds]] also once pronounced "a petit déjeuner" as "ape tit", with [[HilarityEnsues the usual results]].

*** http://www.expertsexchange.com [[spoiler:where experts exchange their details in order to consult for one another]]

*** http://www.powergenitalia.com [[spoiler: an Italian company that manufactures battery chargers. It changed the URL of its website to http://www.batterychargerpowergen.it to avoid misunderstandings]]

** There's a video rental chain called MEGAFLICKS.

** [[TheProblemWithPenIsland The Problem With Penisland]] (...[[TropeNamer Wait a minute]].)

* A variation of this trope is OlderThanTelevision. By convention, comic book lettering is usually all-caps. Due to the vagaries of hand-lettering and smudgy printing, letters can often run together. In particular, a capital L next to a capital I can end up looking like the single letter U. Thus, perfectly innocent words like, famously, CLINT and FLICK, when printed in a comic book...

* A variation of this trope is OlderThanTelevision. By convention, comic book lettering is usually all-caps. Due to the vagaries of hand-lettering and smudgy printing, letters can often run together. In particular, a capital L next to a capital I can end up looking like the single letter U. Thus, perfectly innocent words like, famously, CLINT and FLICK, when printed in a comic book... SoYeah.

* When players get drunk in ''WorldOfWarcraft'', the game will randomly alter the things they say while talking with other players by adding a "[[AlcoholHic ...hic]]" to the end of sentences or replacing an s with an sh in some words. It was only with patch 1.6 that this was modified slightly: Patch 1.6 note: "You no longer spout profanity when talking about sitting while drunk."

** [[{{Bishonen}} Bi Shonen]]

** [[DragonballZ Drag On Ballz]]

** [[MagicKnight Magick Night]]

** [[NoBisexuals Nobi Sexuals]]

** [[ScrewDestiny S Crew Destiny]]

*** [[FinaglesLaw Finagle Slaw]]

** [[SchrodingersCat Schrodinger Scat]] (Probably some thought experiment involving Erwin Schrödinger's toilet)

** [[ILikeSwords I Like S Words]]

** [[RonTheDeathEater Ronthedea Theater]]

** [[SchrodingersCat Schrodinger Scat]]

** [[ShesAManInJapan Shesama Ninja Pan]]