Media Bubble: And This "Douchebag" Makes It Seventeen

abalk2

08/14/06 11:35AM

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• Contrary to popular opinion, news actually does happen in August. [USA Today]
• Contrary to popular opinion, news actually does happen in August. [WaPo]
• ETP notes the first use of the word "douchebag" in a mainstream newspaper. Probably the kind of thing you can only get away with in August, when editors are busy focusing on all the articles about how news actually happens this month. [HuffPo]

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Now Available in Extra-Strength abalk2 08/14/06 11:29AM

Actually, if memory serves, Benjamin Franklin used the word, "douchebag," when describing James Monroe in The New England Courant, in 1723.

hat trick abalk2 08/14/06 11:22AM

you've used douchebag only 37 times in your little gawker empire? i'd say i'm disappointed but he really should have searched douchebaggery.

citytropic abalk2 08/14/06 10:41AM

yaaay!