In Other News, McCain Changes the Oil on the Heterosexual-Talk Express
Riding the Metro into work today, I caught the following AP headline in the Washington Post Express: "Gay Runs Fastest 100-Meter Dash in Any Conditions." For a split second, I thought the author was talking about a gay person who ran the race and was calling him a "gay", which I thought to be an odd style desk decision of such an esteemed paper.
Of course, two seconds later I realized that, duh, the guy who won is actually named Tyson Gay. I bring this up because someone at OneNewsNow.com, a right-wing religious site, really needs to make sure they don't just publish any AP article that pops up on their RSS feed with the word "gay" in it.
Otherwise, this happens.
Tyson Homosexual easily won his semifinal for the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials and seemed to save something for the final later Sunday.
His wind-aided 9.85 seconds was a fairly cut-and-dry performance compared to what happened a day earlier. On Saturday, Homosexual misjudged the finish in his opening heat and had to scramble to finish fourth, then in his quarterfinal a couple of hours later, ran 9.77 to break the American record that had stood since 1999. One of the men who talked about challenging Homosexual in the 100, his former Arkansas teammate Wallace Spearmon, failed to make it to the final by the slimmest of margins.
Apparently an automated search-and-replace that swaps out "gay" for "homosexual" without any human intervention is a terrible idea.
Update, 11:57 AM, June 30th 2008: OK, someone at OneNewsNow.com found out about what a laughingstock this article was and changed it--so the link that you click above actually has it corrected to "Tyson Gay." So just trust me that it was "Tyson Homosexual" at the time I posted this.
Update, 10:11 AM, July 1st 2008: Here is a link to a site that got the actual screenshot.
Haha unbelievable. Really, that is not believable. I don't believe you. At all. And never will again.
By the way, I SAW ALLAN LICHTMAN IN DUPONT WEARING A BIG, BLOND TOUPEE!!!!!!!
Posted by: Dave G | June 30, 2008 at 10:45 PM
haha I just read about this on a WaPo blog, hilarious! I also really like your headline.
Posted by: EmGusk | July 01, 2008 at 01:01 PM