Daily Archives: September 27, 2007

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Horses of a different colour

In Spike Milligan’s version of Black Beauty, the famous horse is given an altogether less elegant name. Spike’s characters deem to call her Nigger on account of her blackness.
And while you’d be surprised to hear a commentator mentioning a thoroughbred called Nigger passing the post at Ascot, it has happened in the past, although a man who recently tried to register his thoroughbred as Nutzapper had it rejected as obscene. Interesting Slate article on horse names here.

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2 Down: The Aisle

Everyone’s getting engaged these days. All my mates. It’s so clichéd. Some of them proposed in fancy places, some in Paris at the Eiffel Tower, some on top of a mountain. It’s all been done.

But this is original. Conspiring with the creators of a crossword that your girlfriend does religiously to propose to her. So nerdy it’s cool.