About Disclaimer

Hello, since you’ve wandered in here, I guess you have a lot of questions about the Disclaimer! Unfortunately, we don’t have a lot of information about where this “Disclaimer” page came from. We believed that it just kind of popped up some time in mid-2013, before the present but definitely after the “About” page was written. Some archivists speculate that the “Disclaimer” page was originally intended to be a brain-mapping project, or some kind of interactive game that never came to fruition. Other visitors point to the page’s text, which reads:

The content of this site is intended for mature audiences only. It contains strong language and unbridled stupidity. The views expressed in this blog are not representative of the WordPress foundation or Jergling. Any similarities to other persons, real or imagined, are purely coincidental. Serious complaints regarding personal security should be directed by personal message to Jergling, however, objections to the nature of articles should be sent by post to the cast of NBC’s Friends.

Unsurprisingly, this text gives little insight as to the intent of the page. While it expresses nearly the same sentiments as the “About” page, it does so with an additional helping of sarcasm, but adds little further information. Investigating deeper, the Profanity Filter team had to look elsewhere on the web. Like any good historians, we began at Wikipedia. Wikipedia defines a disclaimer as follows:

A disclaimer is generally any statement intended to specify or delimit the scope of rights and obligations that may be exercised and enforced by parties in a legally recognized relationship. In contrast to other terms for legally operative language, the term disclaimer usually implies situations that involve some level of uncertainty, waiver, or risk.

We were getting somewhere, but not fast enough. In order to synthesize the information into a usable form quickly, the intrepid internet masters turned to the Bonzai Story Tree to retrieve this insightful piece:

A disclaimer may also called disclaimer used in a legally binding agreement does not, in an attempt to damages after a disclaimer also called disclaimer may take care for 1.50 seconds.
In estate or disclaimers contained in signs may, by a patent law a patent application which the heir is entitled to escape the will, beneficiary designation, or some other situations where the wording of disclaimers may also mean the estate as matter of the contract between the characters belong to take care for the case of disclaimer is, for particular acts or omissions complained of comparable bargaining power, but most states do not claimed.[2] By virtue of negligence and parties involved, while other types of disclaimer in patent law.

Fascinating, isn’t it? The internet holds many deep and valuable tools, but this may take the cake for researchers looking to lighten their load. With this, we knew that a “disclaimer” may also be called simply “disclaimer” when used in a legally binding agreement does not! It’s that simple. With that definition in mind, we re-examined the text of the “Disclaimer” page. Everything became clear. This was the latter type of disclaimer, that is, the one that is used in a legally binding agreement does not. Such a page was intended to unchain the reader from the legal ramifications of consuming this website’s media. Clearly, this aligns with the minimal data we have on the page, which diverts all legal responsibility to NBC’s Friends.

At this point, we knew the original purpose, but not the origin story. Where did this page come from in the first place? To answer that in truth, we’d need a time machine. Unfortunately, time machines don’t exist. Fortunately, the internet is not bound by the laws of physics, and we were able to travel back in time anyway. Thanks to the efforts of archive.org and the power of bribery, the mystery of the disclaimer was revealed to us in all its glory. What we found flipped all of our assumptions on their heads. It turns out that “Disclaimer” predates “About”, and in fact predates all of recorded time. The All Powerful Disclaimer was placed in the seeds of reality before the first living cell formed or the Earth itself detached from the primordial galactic mass. The Loving and True Disclaimer was destined to exist from the beginning of time to the end of time. Unceasing and unrelenting. Forever. Now we will hail the Great Conquering Disclaimer as our one true master, or be extinguished. Love the Disclaimer, Praise the Disclaimer. All Power to the Disclaimer.