From the never-put-anything-in-an-e-mail-you-wouldn’t-want-published file comes the following story:
When some words in freelance writer Andrew Brown’s copy triggered the Manchester, UK Guardian’s spam filters and resulted in getting his article blocked from his editor’s inbox, Brown resent the copy with what he considered to be obvious euphemisms in brackets to replace the words he believed were responsible for the problem.
However, the resulting gaffe accidentally gave Mark Steyn, a writer well-known in conservative circles, the opportunity to learn exactly what Brown thinks of him, that is, if Steyn doesn’t already know.
To get past the Guardian’s spam filters, Brown changed the title of “The Vagina Monologues” to “The [Mark Steyn] Monologues”
Trouble is, Brown’s editor didn’t catch it, resulting in the following correction:
“The Vagina Monologues, which we intended to refer to in eBay, Manga and murder, page 2, G2, April 19, became, bizarrely, The [Mark Steyn] Monologues.”
From our perspective, a better euphemism would have been “The [Unspam] Monologues.”
