dimwits

[realthog]

From Harper's Weekly Review (http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/WeeklyReview2008-02-05), something that amused me:

. . . in Britain retail chain Woolworths withdrew from sale a bed for six-year-old girls called the Lolita Midsleeper Combi after receiving complaints from parents. “We had to look it up on Wikipedia,” said a store spokesman. “But we certainly know who she is now.”

Comments

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

This provokes an incapacity of speech, along with an impulse to giggle, despite one's deep sympathy for that poor girl who Nobakov so mis-used.

Love, C.

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, crazy, eh? Never heard of Nabokov's Lolita. mssrcrankypants posted about this article a few days ago -- it's depressing that people are so little acquainted with great literature, anymore.

Speaking of great literature, I have begun reading your Take No Prisoners. You, sir, are a great writer.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"You, sir, are a great writer."

You may be singing a different tune by the time you get to -- if you get to! -- the end of the book.

But thanks for the kind words in the interim,. anyway!

[quietselkie.livejournal.com]

Methinks the Woolworths crowd spent a little too much time looking at internet pr0n and thought "Lolita" was an alternate word for "girl."

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

Or it's a sad reflection of education in this country. Judgement call.

[quilterbear.livejournal.com]

I think that is far more likely, and far more sad.