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April 20, 2006

Mark Steyn . . . as a euphemism?

Jon sent along a link to this post at the Daily Ablution, which is well worth reading:

Hilariously, Mr. Brown takes special care to note (brackets in original) that:

"Underwood also kept a wish list on Amazon, which has now disappeared, but is reported to have contained The [Mark Steyn] Monologues."

"The [Mark Steyn] Monologues"? What the heck is that?! Has Mr. Steyn been doing some work of which I've been unaware?

Er ... no. The book in question seems actually to have been The Vagina Monologues.

How could Mr. Brown possibly have made such a laughable error? Is it simply due to his own sloppiness, or is there a macro installed on all Guardian computers that changes "Vagina" into "Mark Steyn", and vice versa? Both seem equally likely.

It gets even more amusing, in a couple of updates. Go read the whole thing.

Posted by Nicholas at April 20, 2006 10:44 AM
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