Thread by @QuinnyPig

So many years ago, when my humor was significantly more sophomoric, I had the “cloud to butt” browser extension installed.

It replaced the word “cloud” with “butt.” Suddenly @redhat’s site was talking about public and private butts, which admittedly makes a lot more sense than whatever the hell it’s talking about now.

I was embedded at a client site for a while, and I replied to some email or another. The client manager responded with what might possibly be the most flustered email I’ve ever read, apologizing for his previous message.

It turns out that Outlook Web Access made some interesting programming choices. The extension operated on the email I was replying to, but the text had been collapsed so I didn’t see it.

Suddenly it looked like I had written a serious reply to a whole mess of butt questions.

I immediately uninstalled the extension, THEN replied with an explanation / confession.

The moral of the story is that no matter how hilarious you many find them, don’t install extensions that screw with text replacement in browsers. It’s just not worth it.

Understand that this was the BEST failure case. Imagine using the GitHub browser editor to make and commit a quick one-line change to your ButtFormation template. This extension could absolutely have done some serious damage to careers that are less idiosyncratic than mine!