Crossword Porn?

by Word Buff

A recent article in TheSun.co.uk gave me a good chuckle...

The story involved Jack Sedgewick, a great grandfather and keen word buff, who got a nasty surprise when he sought the assistance of Yahoo to solve a crossword puzzle clue that had stumped him.

The answer to the clue, as you've probably guessed from the title, turned out to be ONAGER. And, yes, that's a picture of the Equus hemionus onager just above. The regular crossword solver might recognize this creature as a bit of routine crosswordese, while the Scrabble aficionado might recognize it as the handy anagram of ORANGE.

But what was the nasty surprise?

Well, the exact clue for this word was Wild Asian ass. When Jack typed that clue into the search engine he got bombarded with porn sites with titles like: Wildest Asian Ass Ever!