Monument ([info]marnanel) wrote,
@ 2006-08-10 09:27:00
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Current mood: amused

Enola Homosexual
My coworker Sean has a desk calendar which tells you facts about baseball. Today's entry was a little over-zealous with the search and replace:

The perils of search-and-replace


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[info]shineyquarter
2006-08-10 01:48 pm UTC (link)
*laughs*

That's amusing... as is your subject.

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[info]dyddgu
2006-08-10 02:02 pm UTC (link)
It reminds me of [info]knirirr's story whereby an overzealous spellchecker insisted that someone had been "buttbuttinated"....

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[info]kawaii_emily
2006-08-10 02:03 pm UTC (link)
holy crap you made my morning.

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(Anonymous)
2006-08-10 02:11 pm UTC (link)
You should have posted the picture in African American and White.

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[info]chrissmari
2006-08-10 02:21 pm UTC (link)
excuse me

african american and caucasian

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motherfuckin' snakes
[info]firinel
2006-08-10 03:57 pm UTC (link)
*tries not to get squee all over your icon*

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[info]chrissmari
2006-08-10 04:01 pm UTC (link)
steal it i did

oh and did you know that meetin.org philly group is having an event to go see it on the 18th?

hah

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[info]firinel
2006-08-10 04:06 pm UTC (link)
thanks, but nah - I'm so vain all of my icons are of me. ;)

that's badass. we did have plans to see it with a few friends of ours, but I'm pretty sure the plans have been trashed, so we should make some new plans.

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[info]starsong
2006-08-10 02:17 pm UTC (link)
It took me a minute to figure out why the grammar made no sense.

Then lo did the light dawn and did I realise that America indeed is SILLY.

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[info]kawaii_emily
2006-08-10 02:45 pm UTC (link)
i felt pretty embarrassed that i didn't get "Enola Homosexual" until i was in the shower later.

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[info]starsong
2006-08-10 02:55 pm UTC (link)
(I had to Google about it. Shh, don't tell anyone.)

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[info]kawaii_emily
2006-08-10 02:59 pm UTC (link)
no way, i'm telling Postsecret :D

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[info]starsong
2006-08-10 03:14 pm UTC (link)
O NOES

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[info]kawaii_emily
2006-08-10 03:16 pm UTC (link)
MWAHAHAHA

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[info]chrissmari
2006-08-10 04:02 pm UTC (link)
hahahahah

;)

I say enlola gay to troll people
I thought enola homosexual is another clever turn on it

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[info]kawaii_emily
2006-08-10 04:17 pm UTC (link)
nah but like for a while, i thought, "wait... there's nothing homosexual IN this post !... is the baseball guy gay ?"

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[info]varsitynj
2006-08-11 01:04 pm UTC (link)
*in a big huff* It's nucularly CHALLENGED!!!

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[info]areia
2006-08-10 02:32 pm UTC (link)
You know... they could have at least bothered to also make sure the article matched. "a African-American"?? /shudder

Funnily enough, after only 8 months in the US, I find myself wanting to call our Indian staff Native-American. Except they're dot-not-feather.

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[info]chrissmari
2006-08-10 04:03 pm UTC (link)
I don't think I even talk about native americans enough to confuse them with Indians ;)

what we natives do is say "Indian Indian not American Indian" :P

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[info]realinterrobang
2006-08-11 12:35 am UTC (link)
Up here in Soviet Canuckistan, all my native-type friends call themselves "Indians" and we call the other type "East Indians." I suspect that's kind of an entrenched usage, because I can think of a song from about 1985 that uses it.

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[info]machineplay
2006-08-10 02:52 pm UTC (link)
...
That's just plain embarassing! How silly of them.

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earthsister
2006-08-10 04:05 pm UTC (link)
It took me an embarassing amount of time to figure this out... because I was certain that they were referring to some graphic text by that name. (Yes, I should be shot.)



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[info]hitchhiker
2006-08-10 04:11 pm UTC (link)
*dies*

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[info]euqsam
2006-08-10 06:19 pm UTC (link)
How insensitive. It's "armband of color". Sheesh.

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[info]wordweaverlynn
2006-08-11 09:56 pm UTC (link)
I thought "42" was baseball's African-American number.

For the non-fan: no player can wear "42" (Jackie Robinson's old number) because it's been retired from baseball in his honor. He was the first Black player in the white major leagues. Given his grace under pressure and the way he played, I suspect that he's the reason that "42" is also the meaning of life.

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[info]mactavish
2006-08-12 06:07 pm UTC (link)
I've seen Surya Bonaly on lists of African-American skaters, and Nelson Mandela on lists of African-American heroes.

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