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simont ([personal profile] simont) wrote in [personal profile] andrewducker 2010-09-03 02:44 pm (UTC)

The first link has a curious word in it. About two thirds of the way down the actual article (not counting the comments), "When I was there, they had a little bottle of htmlirin pills to go round 200 patients in pain". My guess is that some more sensible word has been converted into this bizarre coinage by poorly controlled search and replace, but working out the details (or indeed what the word should have been) is beyond me!

eta: oh, no, actually, given another minute's thought it becomes obvious. The word was aspirin, so the substitution was of "html" for "asp" – somebody must have tried to convert the suffixes on all the internal hyperlinks and not thought to check that the substitution didn't affect any text outside an href.

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