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Subject: Time Out magazine - oh dear
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Any publicity is good publicity? Sometimes I'm not so sure...
There's a half-page article on page 6 of this week's London edition of
Time Out. Headline: "Stop this Frisbee madness". Picture of a rifle
sight, with the cross-hairs smack on a guy with a frisbee (okay, he does
have a dog which is catching a disc, so maybe it's fair enough...)
Apparently, staff writer Peter Paphides was "doing some research on the
history of the frisbee" and discovered that Ultimate was invented at
Harvard (?) as a frisbee-based version of golf (!?). He goes on:
"Ultimate even has it's own course - 18 five-foot poles with a basket
situated halfway up each one." And in Sweden "there's even a national
team." (??!!)
You'll just love the last paragraph. Apparently, frisbee players are "all
idiots" who "hog vast expanses of grass that might otherwise be used for
something with a point to it."
I might approach Time Out to see if I too can get a job writing on
subjects I know nothing about. It looks easy.
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