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Jonny's Blog - January 3rd, 2008
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A Classic Mis-Read Headline
Now and again, you misread a headline and get a very, very strange mental image. That just happened to me, when I read:
Ultimate Fighting Champ Sticks Up For Animals in New PETA Ad
...as:
Ultimate Fighting Chimp Sticks Up For Animals in New PETA Ad
In the point three of a second it took me to think "Hang on, that can't be right!" my brain had conjured up a whole new world, of caged boxing rings, fame, celebrity endorsements, baying crowds, big toothy grins... and kickboxing chimps.

The Ultimate Fighting Chimp - like the PG Tips adverts, but with extra violence.

It was a very strange third of a second.
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Jonny was stranded on Earth whilst still a fetus when his birth-parents' spaceship crashed, and has since worked hard - with only limited success - to integrate himself into human society.

He is currently employed as a computer programmer in the City of London, but moonlights as a writer on the side.
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