Comments on: Let the Gaymes Begin

By: Christian cutting-and-pasting « Venomous Mammals

Christian cutting-and-pasting « Venomous Mammals — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:11:06 +0000

[...] up said article, removing their “enhancements“. To have a sense of what it was, go here. Or just click [...]

By: ianvisits

ianvisits — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:34:15 +0000

I wonder if AP approve of their editing news wire stories in this way?

Certainly most newswire services do not permit editing of the items.

By: Totalrecoil

Totalrecoil — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:26:43 +0000

Is he related to that singer, Marvin Homosexual? (Maybe the “e” doesn’t convert).

By: The Bad Idea Blog

The Bad Idea Blog — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:43:43 +0000

Conservative Christian “News” Site Accidentally Publishes Gay Sports Porn…

Hot on the heels of a multiple adulterer trying to “defend marriage,” we already have another contender for bombastically silly screwup of the year. Ed Brayton of Dispatches couldn’t believe his eyes this morning when he saw what som…

By: The Agitator » Blog Archive » More Comedy from the American Family Association

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:12:57 +0000

[...] from AFA’s bizarre effort to reclaim the word “gay” from the dirty sodomites. Here’s a June 27 article on [...]

By: The Art of the Possible » Blog Archive » (Update)Tyson Homosexual is the Guy to Watch in the Olympics

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:16:51 +0000

[...] More giggles, via People for the American Way via Balko’s Agitator blog: …it looks like [AFA] haven’t gone back through their archives and corrected other [...]

By: Andrew Williams

Andrew Williams — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:10:41 +0000

ROFL!

And how about Nirvana:

What else can I say?
Everyone is homosexual.

Doesn’t scan, does it?

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:27:16 +0000

“Through the courtesy of Fred’s two feet.”

For over 40 years, I’ve wondered what that line was.

Now I know.

By: Warren

Warren — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:41:20 +0000

Pardon me, I was just waxing my javelin…if you know what I mean. (from a Whose Line ep)

Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones.
They’re the modern stone age family.
From the town of Bedrock,
They’re a page right out of history.

Let’s ride with the family down the street.
Through the courtesy of Fred’s two feet.

When you’re with the Flintstones
you’ll have a yabba dabba doo time.
A dabba doo time.
You’ll have a homosexual old time.

By: Michael Wolf

Michael Wolf — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:58:36 +0000

I wonder what they’re trying to accomplish by replacing gay with homosexual. Replacing it with, say, “fag”, seems to make more sense—aside from the sheer reprehensibleness of it, of course.

Could they be, as a friend suggested, trying to take the word gay back?

By: pris

pris — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:33:27 +0000

Love it! Love it!

Best laugh of the day.

By: Windypundit

Windypundit — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:20:36 +0000

In the old days, when newspapers and such had computers but everything was still printed on paper, these sorts of search-and-replace goofs were a lot more embarassing because it was all permanently recorded in African American and white.

By: strech

strech — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:08:55 +0000

That's a cache of an earlier version of the article than the one Brayton cited; here is a later one (though if the cache gets updated it'll clear out). A quote from when they've made the mistake before:

Memphis Grizzlies backers hit the hay hoping that Kevin Love would open things up for Rudy Homosexual in the frontcourt.

(from here).

By: got me copy edit

got me copy edit — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:04:43 +0000

Reminds me a little of the newspaper in Alaska that ran a headline announcing Nelson Mandela’s election as the “first African-American president of South Africa.”

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:00:58 +0000

Ah, the political correctness crowd — what would we do without you? Probably have to go back to watching Comedy Central. Maybe next you can change the word “dick” everywhere to “penis.” You know, for a cleaner, less offensive Internet, for the children. [Hint: all the people named "Richard" are not going to be happy with you.]