The English Have Such a Delicious Sense of Humor

Oh the British and their sense of humor. MenuPages relayed to us this fun little diddy: Seems as though last week over at the NYT Freakonomics blog Stephen Dubner (the book’s author) may have had his mind a bit in the gutter. According to the story, in a July 8 post Dubner called out the Economist for a perceived spelling mistake.

Consider this lead from a recent article about a huge Mexican mining company called Fresnillo, which was recently listed on the London Stock Exchange: In the hills north east of Mexico City it is not uncommon to find Cornish pasties for sale….They
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