For the record
For the record, I did not contribute this offensive, and aggressively un-funny piece in the Daily Probe from Wednesday:
Sex Tourism Industry "Totally Fucked" by TsunamiBANDA ACEH (DPI) - The Southeast Asian sex tourism industry has been utterly devastated by the recent tsunami there, according to the group Sex Tours International.
(By the way: anybody want to start an over/under on how long the "daily" Daily Probe will last?) (Now that's what I call a potshot, bay-bee!)
I wrote a piece intended to comment on the media-driven need for visitors and aid workers in the area to one-up each other in their horror at the devastation, and playing a little bit with being "devastated" over devastation, etc. to wit:
Tsunami: Officials, Rescue Workers, Visitors "Devastated, " "Shattered," "Fucked" BANDA ACEH (DPI) -- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan reports being "devastated" at the devastation in this tiny Sumatran island today. Standing next to a shattered home, one of thousands on the island, he added, "I am absolutely shattered over this." Meanwhile, World Bank President James Wolfensohn, travelling with the Secretary-General, described himself as "shit-besmirched" after accidentally stepping too close to a hastily-dug emergency lavatory trench. Further afield, in Ampu Muang's PP Princess Resort, Fred Mortensen, an American sex tourist, said via telephone that he was "thoroughly fucked" after visiting the whores in the famed red-light districts ringing the resort. And finally, a rescue worker who smothered after he accidentally fell into a burial pit with hundreds of bodies in the tiny coastal town of Meulaboh described himself as "Dead."
I have requested and feel certain that the site owner will remove my name from the piece, which basically lifts an unrelated gag from mine and inserts it into another which has little or nothing to do with it, in style, tone, or intent. The pseudonymous co-author is welcome to full credit for that steaming pile.