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Microsoft Suspends Gamer For Being From Fort Gay
maclizard writes "The town's name is real. But when Josh Moore tried to tell Seattle-based Microsoft and the enforcement team at Xbox Live that Fort Gay was a real place, they wouldn't take his word for it. Or Google it. Or check the US Postal Service website for a ZIP code. I personally feel for those of you from Big Bone Lick, KY."
Quoting myself. 130 seconds after posting, Google has 1 search result for that word. Christ. Guys, you're truly awesome.
Vacuum cleaners suck. Kings rule.
Even better. Fucking, Austria. I'm guessing the residents there get harassed over their town name quite frequently as well.
I am old enough to remember when "gay" only meant feeling happily excited. As you already know, up until about 40 years ago, the word "gay" did not have anything to do with homosexuality. It also was not a way to describe something as being "lame" either. It was not until the late 1960s or early 1970s, when I first started hearing the word gay being used to imply that someone was a homosexual.
There were many old books with the word "gay" in the title and a old few songs with gay in the lyrics. Below are the titles of several very old books, which are available from Gutenberg.org. Despite the titles, I doubt that any of those books have anything to do with either homosexuality or something being lame.
The travel company I work for just deleted Fucking, Austria from their database because they figured it was better not to offend someone than to allow them to travel there. The only way someone would have actually seen the name is if they searched for it, so it seems rather stupid, but I could imagine some complaining that they searched for Fucking and found what they searched for.
Ironic that the price of live just went up. ;)