Harringay Too Gay for Search Engine

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Permalink Reply by Liz on September 2, 2009 at 13:31

I recall Michael identifying a similar problem with Microsoft

How did it cope with Scunthorpe?

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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on September 2, 2009 at 13:35

or Arsenal?

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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on September 2, 2009 at 13:58

I take it the historical reference is to the late Jeremy Thorpe. Or am I missing something?

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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on September 2, 2009 at 14:18

Not sure if that's wishful thinking on your part - BUT Jeremy Thorpe isn't that late yet..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Thorpe

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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on September 2, 2009 at 17:41

You're right, Steve. Clearly old Liberals never die, they just fade away for about forty years. Anyway, I see Liz didn't rise to my misdirection above. I was rather hoping for a somewhat delicate etymologisation of Scunthope.

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Permalink Reply by John D on September 2, 2009 at 18:21

A lady of my acquaintance was rather taken aback to be ejected from a chatroom for using the word "Saturday" as was I when complaining about my "niggardly " salary.

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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on September 2, 2009 at 13:55

I trust that at least 90% of harringayonline content is truly adult, no?

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Permalink Reply by DavidJ on September 4, 2009 at 18:09

The 'Scunthorpe problem' is quite well known (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem). What is more troubling here is why on earth should 'gay' be considered a dirty word?

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