Speaking of Typos - Christian Site Screws Up in Biblical Proportions

[MineralMan]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/07/christian_sites_ban_on_g_word.html

Christian Site's Ban on 'G' Word Sends Homosexual to Olympics

The American Family Association obviously didn't foresee the problems that might arise with its strict policy to always replace the word "gay" with "homosexual" on the Web site of its Christian news outlet, OneNewsNow. The group's automated system for changing the forbidden word wound up publishing a story about a world-class sprinter named "Tyson Homosexual" who qualified this week for the Beijing Olympics.


Tyson Gay wins the men's 100 meters final at June the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials. (Reuters -- Mike Blake)
The problem: Tyson's real last name is Gay. Therefore, OneNewsNow's reliable software changed the Associated Press story about Tyson Gay's amazing Olympic qualifying trial to read this way:

Tyson Homosexual was a blur in blue, sprinting 100 meters faster than anyone ever has.
more at link...

Not a new story, but a story with legs, it seems...

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Guess tis a small victory

that they chose to use homosexual instead of "queer" or even the F word.

[MineralMan]

2. A failure of global replace algorithms.

Egg on their face.

[Rozlee]

3. I almost thought this was a parody from the Landover Baptist Church.

It sounds like something Pastor Deacon Fred would have dreamed up. Didn't somebody proof-read the article before it became public?

[MineralMan]

5. Proofread? No. The AFA only does proof-texting.

[shenmue]

4. Oh mah friggin' goodness

Silly geese.

[Scootaloo]

6. "A story with legs"

[MineralMan]

7. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa!