[identity profile] twistedncynical.livejournal.com 2009-06-20 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
html fail - I can't get anything from copypasta, either. Off to find out more . . .

[identity profile] twistedncynical.livejournal.com 2009-06-20 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Certainly today, with our broadly socially less restrictive attitude to most pornography and to sex more broadly it may seem odd that the government was spending so much effort on something like this," he said . . .

Broadly speaking, of course.

Is it the level of active government discouragement to the distribution of Deep Throat that you're commenting on?

[identity profile] glaucon.livejournal.com 2009-06-20 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
dude, no...the other shit...like the headline for one...the word "headline" is hilarious in and of itself in this context, but then it's like...wide investigation of deep throat...um.

and then the dude from rutgers who's like a deep throat expert is named wiener?

and the fact that one of the FBI insiders (huh huh...huh huh) who read the memos originally was mark felt, who was the *other* deep throat - the watergate deep throat...and like, first...his name is hilarious too...and second, he probably got the idea for using the name from these very memos!

[identity profile] twistedncynical.livejournal.com 2009-06-20 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohh!! Damn, I need to get my some reading comprehension. I read it again - that can't be serious. There's a journalist out there stoned off his arse with a sphincter-defying case of the giggles.

[identity profile] glaucon.livejournal.com 2009-06-20 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
totally! how much fun must they have had writing that?

[identity profile] glaucon.livejournal.com 2009-06-20 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
thanks. fixed link.

[identity profile] oh6.livejournal.com 2009-06-20 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
"The place was always stiff with researchers trying to get to the bottom of it all and taking a very long time about it."

-- Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish