Fun with words
I love the English language.
Today at work I assigned myself another mindless task in order to pass the time--cleaning up the subject headings in our crappy library catalog. Sounds technical but basically just means entering subjects for the books we own, so that on the happy day when someone other than me actually searches for a book, they might conceivably find something.
Anyway, one of the books in our odd collection is called The F-Word, and apparently is about exactly that. The first subject heading listed is "Fuck (The English word)." Call me a librarian, but that made my morning.
This afternoon I came home and was reading the paper and came upon this little gem:
OneNewsNow.com, a Mississippi-based Web site committed to delivering "news from a Christian perspective," has a strict policy to replace certain words deemed offensive. So imagine the surprise when readers learned Sunday that Tyson Homosexual — not Tyson Gay — had run the world's fastest 100-meter dash. The site ran the following altered Associated Press recap of Gay's 9.68-second sprint:
"Tyson Homosexual was a blur in blue, sprinting 100 meters faster than anyone ever has. ... Homosexual qualified for his first Summer Games team." "It means a lot to me," the 25-year-old Homosexual said. "I'm glad my body could do it."
Awesome.
Today at work I assigned myself another mindless task in order to pass the time--cleaning up the subject headings in our crappy library catalog. Sounds technical but basically just means entering subjects for the books we own, so that on the happy day when someone other than me actually searches for a book, they might conceivably find something.
Anyway, one of the books in our odd collection is called The F-Word, and apparently is about exactly that. The first subject heading listed is "Fuck (The English word)." Call me a librarian, but that made my morning.
This afternoon I came home and was reading the paper and came upon this little gem:
OneNewsNow.com, a Mississippi-based Web site committed to delivering "news from a Christian perspective," has a strict policy to replace certain words deemed offensive. So imagine the surprise when readers learned Sunday that Tyson Homosexual — not Tyson Gay — had run the world's fastest 100-meter dash. The site ran the following altered Associated Press recap of Gay's 9.68-second sprint:
"Tyson Homosexual was a blur in blue, sprinting 100 meters faster than anyone ever has. ... Homosexual qualified for his first Summer Games team." "It means a lot to me," the 25-year-old Homosexual said. "I'm glad my body could do it."
Awesome.
posted by Madame Defarge at 4:41 PM
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