[QotD] July 9, 2009: Still tasteless after all these years

TODAY’S QUESTION

Editor Steve Dunleavy could’ve written something sober and tasteful — like his facetious suggestion DECAPITATED CEREBELLUM IN TAVERN OF ILL REPUTE. But that wouldn’t have sold papers.

Instead, what notorious five-word headline greeted New York Post readers on April 15, 1983?

You can answer in the comments for public glory (or perhaps humiliation), or email james at quizquizbangbang.com if you’re shy.

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That question, again: What nineteenth-century technology is the subject of Tom Standage’s book The Victorian Internet?

Answer: The “Victorian Internet” is the telegraph, as immortalized in the episode of The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer where Abe Lincoln has anonymous on-line sex with a woman in Morse code.

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