http://newley.com/2005/08/01/young-boys-wankdorf-erection-relief/ Dispatches from Bangkok Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:37:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://newley.com/2005/08/01/young-boys-wankdorf-erection-relief/#comment-588 Newley Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:56:24 +0000 http://newley.com/2005/08/01/young-boys-wankdorf-erection-relief/#comment-588 Hi, Gary. Thanks for writing -- the headline and the story really cracked me up. I believe, though, that the Soccernet site is run by English journalists working out of the ESPN office in New York or Connecticut. So perhaps, yes, they penned the hilarious headline and then it slipped under the radar of American editors who weren't well enough attuned to British sarcasm (and use of the word "wank")! Hi, Gary. Thanks for writing — the headline and the story really cracked me up. I believe, though, that the Soccernet site is run by English journalists working out of the ESPN office in New York or Connecticut. So perhaps, yes, they penned the hilarious headline and then it slipped under the radar of American editors who weren’t well enough attuned to British sarcasm (and use of the word “wank”)!

]]> http://newley.com/2005/08/01/young-boys-wankdorf-erection-relief/#comment-587 Gary Williams Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:49:57 +0000 http://newley.com/2005/08/01/young-boys-wankdorf-erection-relief/#comment-587 Hi Newley, my friends and I have been laughing over this for the last few weeks and pointing it out to like minded soccer fans. I like in England and friends ask me how any editor can have been dumb enough to have let this through. As a Brit who lived several years in the USA my only possible explanation is that the w*nk term isn't in common usage in the USA and Soccernet is a USA site, though I would have thought that this title would still have appeared very odd and suspicious. Still, I'm glad it made it through! Hi Newley, my friends and I have been laughing over this for the last few weeks and pointing it out to like minded soccer fans. I like in England and friends ask me how any editor can have been dumb enough to have let this through. As a Brit who lived several years in the USA my only possible explanation is that the w*nk term isn’t in common usage in the USA and Soccernet is a USA site, though I would have thought that this title would still have appeared very odd and suspicious. Still, I’m glad it made it through!

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