There's a college that just advertised during The Soup on E! It's called
UTI
WTF? Who names a college (click here to see the ad and the home page) after a medical condition in which it hurts to pee? Do people not have Google? Can they not go to Wikipedia to look up urinary tract infection and see this little pretty picture?
Just like the bedding company that I heard about in Wait, Wait today. They named one of their bed's for girls the "Lolita" model. None of them knew about Nabakov. Huh?
Lolita (1955) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel was first written in English and published in Paris. The novel is both internationally famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the book's narrator and protagonist Humbert Humbert becoming sexually obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl named Dolores Haze. (From Wikipedia)
I made a Humbert Humbert reference at work on Wednesday, and only one person got it (and then when I did explain it, I was asked why would I read such a horrible book). Sad what people don't know.
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