Australians have always been noted for a robust sense of humor. It's come to the fore again in a postal referendum on whether to legalize same-sex marriage in that country. The Sun reports:
Around 16 million survey forms were posted to Australians across the country this week so people can have their say on legalising same-sex marriage.
But among those sent out featured unfortunate phrases - including "bumsex" and "d*ck to" - according to eagle-eyed recipients.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) ... apologised for the potentially "offensive" words and said it will issue a new form if requested.
There's more at the link. A tip o' the hat to Australian reader Snoggeramus for alerting me to it.
If that was an "accidental" combination of letters, I'll eat my hat!
Peter
4 comments:
If that's the unique identifier barcode, I'd wager it was indeed random. Monkeys and typewriters and all that.
ROTFLMAO!
Subject matter plus "random" bar code?
Someone just won a huge bar bet from his buddies.
Yes, "buddies" 'cause this is definitely a guy thing.
Programmer lore has this story:
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Automated-Curse-Generator
Fun stuff happens once you reduce your character space (or even go for a syllable space) to stuff that is easy to pronounce or hard to mix up.
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