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SINCLAIR USER COMES UNSTUCK (December 17th, 1988).
Spectrum games mag Sinclair User found itself in trouble with the TV
show Watchdog and a Tory MP both ticking it off for making a joky
reference to glue sniffing. The show even rang Sir Clive Sinclair but
not surprisingly he denied all knowledge of the publication.
The mag had run a competition for Airfix-style models.
Contained in the copy was the offending line "just think of all the
glue fumes you've got an excuse to inhale".
Although the gag caused something of an uproar, SU says it only
received four complaints. "it just happened that one of the
complainants wrote to everyone else," commented editor Graham Taylor.
"In magazine terms, we put our foot in our mouth. Watchdog treated it
as 'look at those foolish people' story rather than branding us devils
from hell," he said. "But we sincerely apologise and we're printing an
apology in the next issue". But Conservative MP Kenneth Hind was
infuriated by the comment calling it "a disgrace".
Asked at whether he was surprised at the uproar Taylor
commented "the furore is over now and we're putting it behind us. What
with Roy Orbison dying and Gorby cutting his armaments the story has
slipped into obscurity".