ralper

Candy Barr, a stripper and star of 1950s stag film, Smart Aleck, died at the age of 70. Although she claimed that she was forced to make it, Candy Barr (Juanita Dale Slusher) was perhaps America's first p0rn star.

Candy Barr, RIP

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/04/arts/04barr.html

ralper

Did you know that when you use the word p0rn in a post using the correct letters, this is what you get $$$$$$. I couldn't believe it either. I thought we'd come further than that.

DrCloud

This may be related to indexing / search services, as a way for S2Ki to protect itself.

Now, to the other matter. No disrespect to Ms. Slusher intended here, but your note made me wonder why this caught your attention. Fond memories? An interest in black socks? HPH

ralper

Just looking at the New York Times obits when a name from the distant past caught my eye.

ralper

You may be right but I think it is more simple than that. I think there must be a list of prohibited words that get blanked out (in this case $$$$$$) when they appear in a post.

DrCloud

You may just be right.

I just did an experiment via the "Preview Post" button and got the $$$$$ string like you did; further, the f-word became *****.

This could actually become an interesting code, if we're able to find out all of these substitution patterns -- if, say, I got fed up with one of those absurd arguments on the Politics board, I could just say "***** you all", and the message would be unambiguous. We'd have a new vocabulary, as it were.

And isn't it amusing (and ironic) that this discussion is in the context of your original subject? HPH

ralper

That was my feeling, exactly.

dlq04

But it was the gal in Deep Throat that brought it respectability!

SheDrivesIt

Ahhh. The Ivory Snow girl.

No that's not right. That was Marilyn Chambers from "Behind the Green Door."

Rdrunner

Linda Lovelace. I believe she died a couple of years ago.

She became very vocal against pornography.

She went from liberal to conservative and died..... no connection I'm sure.