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Underwood also kept a wish list on Amazon, which has now disappeared, but is reported to have contained The [Mark Steyn] Monologues; he read Manga comics; he sold some things on eBay, as well as buying items for an online game called Kingdom of Loathing (including "hell ramen") . He read Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut.
Astonishingly Scott gets a response to his email to the Grauniad/Mr Brown asking "WTF?" which is explained in better detail at Mr Brown's blogAh; I was hoping no one would notice. The Guardian has some pretty ferocious spam filters, which for some reason seem to screw with my copy when I am writing about these things. I had problem with one about a ghastly net forum, too. So if they don't get through, I rewrite them with euphemisms in square brackets for all the words that might excite a bayesian filter. so [self-pleasuring] for masturbation, and so on.
The sub got all of them except [Mark Steyn], which I had thought was perfectly obvious.
This could make for a classic apology, of course.
One might have thought there were other ways to get the critical words across - "vag!na" in good old spammer style for example but apparently not. Fortunately, despite being a bunch of left wing [Mark Steyn]s, the Grauniad does not yet consider [Mark Steyn] to be an obscenity....