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Your obligatory Lego giraffe penis correction story du jour
A large Lego giraffe greets visitors at the entrance to the Legoland Discovery Center in Germany. And if you believe a Reuters report from this morning, people can’t help but steal the giraffe’s penis....
One problem: the Lego giraffe does not have a penis. People were stealing its tail. Oh dear.
Bonus points: the story points out it was Reuters who brought us two of the greatest editing mistakes of the information age: the apian adventures of Queen Elizabeth laying 2000 eggs a day and beef panties. But those are copy-editing goofs; this appears to be a German euphemism gone awry. For which there's probably a German word, ninety letters long with three vowels. Oh, those wacky Germans.
One problem: the Lego giraffe does not have a penis. People were stealing its tail. Oh dear.
Bonus points: the story points out it was Reuters who brought us two of the greatest editing mistakes of the information age: the apian adventures of Queen Elizabeth laying 2000 eggs a day and beef panties. But those are copy-editing goofs; this appears to be a German euphemism gone awry. For which there's probably a German word, ninety letters long with three vowels. Oh, those wacky Germans.