Mad Libs, Yahoo, and the U.N.
My Yahoo has a kinda neat, but mostly annoying feature on its news page. If you hover over a link, it gives you a preview of the article, which is neat. If you click on it, though, it *sometimes* pops up a dialog with a larger preview and you need to click another link to go to the article itself. If you ctrl-click (or middle click) on the link, you go straight to the article in a new tab or window. At any rate, I was browsing the headlines and moused over one titled ” Age of ‘green economics’ is upon us: U.N.’s Ban” which got me this preview:
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday the world is on the cusp of “the age of green economics” and called on nations to cooperate to fight global warming and promote the transf…
So, based on my understanding of the U.N.’s true function, my mind finished that as follows:
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday the world is on the cusp of “the age of green economics” and called on nations to cooperate to fight global warming and promote the transferring US wealth to anyone but the filthy, evil Americans.
Of course, that’s not what the article said, but I’m pretty sure that’s what it meant…