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[Yu_Bum_suk]

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2009/05/161_44885.html

I wonder if any newspaper anywhere in the world has ever been fooled so many times by such obvious BS.

[Underwaterbob]

Written by "Robert V Winkle" with the email [email protected]. Hilarious.

[harlowethrombey]

Back in high school I used to write freelance sports articles for the local paper.

Sometimes my friends would help me. We had a little game where we tried to slip in as many double entendres as possible. The editor usually caught most or all of them, but occaisionally '(name) jacked down a rebound' or 'the big-ballin Bears broke through' would make it in.

It always put a smile on my face. And seeing these articles, any of which would be recognized by a native speaker as baloney, keep making it past the editors puts a smile on my face, too.

[Joe666]

I know I am going to get bashed for this question, but I need to know.
I get the Robert V. Winkle (Vanilla Ice), from Dallas part. I don't get the e-mail reference? Somebody please!!

[OculisOrbis]

http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/

[Joe666]

eye socket - Thanks for the info. I got it now!

[Adventurer]

Personally, I think this is rather funny, and I don't hold a paper in esteem if it prints lots of xenophobic stuff, and when it printed a column that was supposedly written by a minor, that was silly.

It does remind me of those Quebecois artists who call important people and make them think they're someone else. It also reminds me of those foreigners who ran on some soccer fields in Korea, like that guy who had a t-shirt that said: "I'm kind of a big dog".

Anyway, it's kind of immature behavior. Having fun at the expense of a newspaper that for me is worse than the National Enquirer is not necessarily something good for us, because they could get ticked and take it out on us, and they would have the last laugh. Some of us who have been in Korea for some years probably don't appreciate such stuff.

I think it's hilarious, but not necessarily a good idea. It could be harmless, or it could be very dumb for us.

[Rory_Calhoun27]

[Ilsanman]

I consider that paper somewhere along the lines of a high school newspaper.

Good on him for pwning them.

[andz22]