(Update)Tyson Homosexual is the Guy to Watch in the Olympics
(posted by Mona)
After the race, Homosexual and Dix looked at each other and slapped palms, then hugged.
Just go read the whole post — Let the Gaymes Begin — at Reason. The American Family Association dislikes the word “gay,” and apparently employs a global word-change technology so that any story they pick up translates “gay” into “homosexual.” Hence, Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay appears as Tyson Homosexual, or Homosexual, throughout the AFA’s post on the competition, reproduced at Reason. Freakin’ hysterical. Really. Funniest. Thing. Evah.
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Update: 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 articles where this happened, such as this article where professional basketball player Rudy Gay is referred to as “Rudy Homosexual.”
To wit, my emphasis:
Memphis Grizzlies backers hit the hay hoping that Kevin Love would open things up for Rudy Homosexual in the frontcourt.
The AFA: writing gay sports porn.
June 30th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Ed Brayton was one of the first to notice this and has a great comment thread. My favorite:
June 30th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Oh, bad Jim, the jokes just write themselves…and then what will be left of the rep of this site for intellectual focus and vigor.
June 30th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
You know how Pat Robertson closes his prayers with what sounds like “A man and a man”?
A long time ago me and my best friend in college watched Robertson sermonize on the evils of homosexuality. In his prayer afterward, he kept reaching over and patting Ben Kinchlow on the knee. Of course, he concluded with “a man and a man.”
I guess it seems funnier when you’re drunk.
June 30th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Btw, this reminds me of when I was in law school, and during moot court competition we all had to write a brief. My best friend and study partner was assigned to one or another side of libel law vis-a-vis public figures, and she kept transposing letters and spelling it “pulbic.” She was exhausted, and did a global change whilst barely awake, with the result that he entire brief referred to “pubic figures.”
June 30th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Oh, and Radley Balko at my Reason link does credit Ed Brayton for the great catch.