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  1. Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu!PAPAI
  3. From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
  4. Subject: Re: African-American-top
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec30.233728.20939@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
  6. Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu
  8. Organization: The Ohio State University
  9. References: <mjenkins.725757417@cunews>
  10. Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:37:28 GMT
  11. Lines: 18
  12.  
  13. mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:
  14. >                        ........So the editor
  15. >simply used a "search-and-replace" command to search for every "black"
  16. >reference and replace it with "African-American."
  17. >
  18. >Unfortunately, this resulted in "blacktop" (as in asphalt) becoming
  19. >"African-Americantop", a "black-and-white issue" becoming an
  20. >"African-American-and-white issue", etc.
  21.  
  22.     This brings to mind the story of the local newspaper TV
  23. section that replaced all occurances of FOX with the local
  24. affiliates station, i.e. FOX -> WTTE channel 28.  This worked
  25. fine until a story about 'Back to the Future' appeared.
  26.  
  27.  
  28. ObUL: Speaking of blacktop, Macadam is named after a Scotsman.
  29.  
  30. Jon "Michael J. WTTE Channel 28" Papai
  31.