Svedka site a big 'Svo what?'

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My curiousity piqued by yesterday’s New York Post headline—"Svedka and ‘Femme Bot’ Likely to Offend Everyone,"—I journeyed to the far-out svedka.com site today to meet the femme bot. After first typing in my birthdate, I was dismayed to learn that in 2033, the year in which the site is set, I will be 56. After that bad news, the rest of the site seemed less than charming; it’s loaded with copy that’s overwritten, questionably edited and not as humorous as it thinks it is—detailing what goes on in the years leading up to 2033: In 2031, for example, "the Gay Man’s Fashion Gene [was] discovered.

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