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 .TH FILTERS 6
 .SH NAME
 .TH FILTERS 6
 .SH NAME

-aust, b1ff, biffa, buck, censor, chef, cockney, drawl, fin, fudd, jethro jive ken, kraut, ky00te, mb, moo, newspeak, nyc, valspeak \- assorted text filters
+ken, b1ff, censor, chef, cockney, eleet, fanboy, fudd, jethro, jibberish, jive, kenny, kraut, ky00te, nethackify, newspeak, nyc, pirate, rasterman, scottish, spammer, scramble, studly, uniencode, upside\-down \- assorted text filters

 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .SH SYNOPSIS

-All the filters read input from stdin, change it, and write the filtered
-text to stdout.
+ $SHELL | chef
+ 
+ newspeak < thesis.tex > newthesis.tex
+
+ eleet | wall # b1ff works well too
+
+ b1ff | ircII | censor

 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
 All of these programs are filters to do all sorts of strange things to text.
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
 All of these programs are filters to do all sorts of strange things to text.

-No racial or societal slurs are intended. For amusement only.
-.IP aust
-Australian
+No personal, racial, religious or societal slurs are intended. For amusement
+only.
+.P
+All the filters read input from stdin, change it, and write the filtered
+text to stdout. Some filters also support reading from files and
+writing to stdout.

 .IP b1ff
 The B1FF filter
 .IP b1ff
 The B1FF filter

-.IP biffa
-??
-.IP buck
-The buckwheat filter
-.IP censor
-[CENSORED]
-.IP chef
-convert English on stdin to Mock Swedish on stdout
+.IP lolcat
+As seen in internet gifs everywhere.

 .IP cockney
 Cockney English
 .IP cockney
 Cockney English

-.IP drawl
-English to Texan translator
-.IP fin
-??
+.IP chef
+convert English on stdin to Mock Swedish on stdout
+.IP eleet
+K3wl hacker slang
+.IP fanboy
+Speak like a fanboy. Filters out extraneous words and focuses on the words
+fans use. By default, it will speak like a fan of git/Linus/linux
+development. To change this, pass as parameters the words that the fanboy
+typically uses. Alternatively, pass the name of a topic that typically has
+fanboys to use a predefined word list.

 .IP fudd
 Elmer Fudd
 .IP jethro
 Hillbilly text filter
 .IP jive
 Jive English
 .IP fudd
 Elmer Fudd
 .IP jethro
 Hillbilly text filter
 .IP jive
 Jive English

+.IP jibberish
+Runs text through a random selection of the rest of the filters, to make really
+weird output.

 .IP ken
 English into Cockney, featuring (dubious) rhyming
 slang for a lot of computer terminology.
 .IP kraut
 .IP ken
 English into Cockney, featuring (dubious) rhyming
 slang for a lot of computer terminology.
 .IP kraut

-German
-.IP mb
-Marc Barrett posting translator
-.IP moo
-The cow filter
+Generates text with a bad German accent.
+.IP kenny
+Generates text as spoken by Kenny on South Park.
+.IP ky00te
+This program places a very cute (and familiar to FurryMuck
+fans) accent on any text file.
+.IP nethackify
+Wiped out text like can be found in nethack.

 .IP newspeak
 .IP newspeak

-As in 1984
+A-la-1984
+.IP censor
+CDA-ize text

 .IP nyc
 Brooklyn English
 .IP nyc
 Brooklyn English

-.IP valspeak
-??
-.IP ky00te
-This program places a very cute (and familiar to FurryMuck
-fans) accent to any text file.
+.IP pirate
+Talk like a pirate.
+.IP rasterman
+Makes text look like it came from the keyboard of Carsten Haitzler.
+.IP scottish
+Fake scottish (dwarven) accent filter, inspired by the character "Durkon"
+from Order of the Stick.
+.IP spammer
+Turns honest text into something that is liable to be flagged as spam.
+.IP scramble
+Scramble the "inner" letters of each word in the input into a random order.
+The resulting text is still strangely readable.
+.IP studly
+Studly caps.
+.IP uniencode
+Use glorious unicode to the fullest possible extent. As seen previously in
+many man pages.
+.IP upside\-down
+Flips text upside down. Stand on your head and squint to read the output.

 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .SH "SEE ALSO"

-.IP /usr/doc/filters/SAMPLES
-Lists samples of the output of all the filters.
-.SH AUTHOR
-The filters were collected from all over, by Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org>
+Other filters:
+.TP
+.B pig
+From the bsdgames package, pig converts text to pig latin.
+.TP
+.B dog --oog
+From the dog package, dog can also function as a filter, converting text to
+OOG-speak.
+.SH AUTHORS
+The eleet, upside\-down, chef, b1ff, and censor filters were written by
+Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>. Daniel V Klein <dvk@lonewolf.com> wrote the
+cockney, jive, and nyc filters. jibberish is by Raul Miller
+<rdm@test.legislate.com>, jethro is by Duane Paulson
+<ci922@cleveland.freenet.edu>, rasterman is by Zachary Beane, ken is by
+Stephen K Mulrine <skm@eqsn.net>, newspeak is by Jamie Zawinski
+<jwz@jwz.org>, studly is by Nick Phillips <nwp@lemon\-computing.com>, 
+Gurkan Sengun <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu> wrote nethackify, Dougal Campbell
+<dougal@gunters.org> wrote pirate, kraut is by John Sparks, scottish by
+Adam Borowski, Kenny is by Christian Garbs and Alan Eldridge,
+and scramble by Andrew J. Buehler.