Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Dictionary.com is the shit!

Okay, just supposing you're studying spelling words with your kid and you're talking about how the letter "t" sometimes makes a "ch" sound, as it does in "culture" and "eventually" and just supposing that you decide to go to dictionary.com because you know that they have a little button you can press so that you can actually hear the word being spoken by an even-tempered female or male voice. Now isn't that fun.

Now suppose that your kid asks do they have any dirty words on there and so you oblige their curiosity because maybe you actually share their curiosity and so you poke around a few 'dirty' words, including "jerk", which your kid asserts isn't dirty at all and so you move on to "turd."

Just suppose.

And then, just then, when you get to that dictionary.com entry, you find a sponsored link selling cheap turd.

Now here's the question: would you find that strange? Would you follow the link? Would you tell your friends, just in the off chance that they're looking for some quantity of turd at rock-bottom prices? Would you?

Let me know.


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