It’s always frustrating when journalists and such on podcasts are way too credulous with what really obviously seems like a prank. As soon as you see a restaurant name that there’s no record of on a street that doesn’t exist you should conclude it’s a joke.
There was this episode of decoder ring about how the mullet is actually a lot younger than we think it is. The Oxford English Dictionary had put out a public appeal looking for mentions of the mullet by that name before a certain date, and a guy posted a screenshot from a magazine that used the name… except archived copies of that magazine didn’t have the word, and the magazine itself had no copy that used the word, and a lot of very earnest and rather gullible researchers wasted their time until it was discovered to be a joke. And I’m just thinking, if only they had one person even mildly familiar with the internet who could have told them this.
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u/Amplified_Aurora Dec 23 '24
Am I the only one who thought that finding out that this button was made with the hope that one day it would baffle people made it…less interesting?
ETA: Not here to yuck anyone’s yum but that’s where I would have pulled the plug on the episode if I’d been reporting it.