Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Dissociated Press
     
        [Play on "Associated Press"; perhaps inspired by a reference
        in the 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon "What's Up, Doc?"]  An
        algorithm for transforming any text into potentially humorous
        garbage even more efficiently than by passing it through a
        {marketroid}.  The algorithm starts by printing any N
        consecutive words (or letters) in the text.  Then at every
        step it searches for any random occurrence in the original
        text of the last N words (or letters) already printed and then
        prints the next word or letter.  {Emacs} has a handy command
        for this.  Here is a short example of word-based Dissociated
        Press applied to an earlier version of the {Jargon File}:
     
        wart:  A small, crocky {feature} that sticks out of
        an array (C has no checks for this).  This is relatively
        benign and easy to spot if the phrase is bent so as to be
        not worth paying attention to the medium in question.
     
        Here is a short example of letter-based Dissociated Press
        applied to the same source:
     
        window sysIWYG:  A bit was named aften /bee't*/ prefer
        to use the other guy's re, especially in every cast a
        chuckle on neithout getting into useful informash speech
        makes removing a featuring a move or usage actual
        abstractionsidered interj. Indeed spectace logic or problem!
     
        A hackish idle pastime is to apply letter-based Dissociated
        Press to a random body of text and {vgrep} the output in hopes
        of finding an interesting new word.  (In the preceding
        example, "window sysIWYG" and "informash" show some promise.)
        Iterated applications of Dissociated Press usually yield
        better results.  Similar techniques called "travesty
        generators" have been employed with considerable satirical
        effect to the utterances of {Usenet} flamers; see {pseudo}.
     
        [{Jargon File}]