April 12, 2000

2:09 PM

Celebrity Flush, cleansing the world of pop culture.
posted by veruca (8 comments total)

I read this as "cleansing the world of poop culture" and nearly too scared to follow the link. Nearly.
posted by plinth at 2:33 PM on April 12, 2000

i took an intro to pop culture class that was immediately christened "poop."

it's now my major.
posted by sugarfish at 7:43 PM on April 12, 2000

I saw that as poop too LOL!
But then I thought vindictive streak was vindictive steak and I thought jishin said fishin when I was reading eMails earlier. Yes..I need to get more sleep. ;-)
posted by FAB4GIRL at 8:43 PM on April 12, 2000

After seeing the word "flush" y'all probably started thinking about toilet time...
posted by veruca at 8:48 PM on April 12, 2000

Actually, it says "pop" on the right side of the page... but before the flushing image loads, there's a brief glimpse of an alternate image that indeed says "poop".

Your eyes did not deceive you.
posted by dhartung at 9:39 PM on April 12, 2000

But if you read the original pointer on this site as "poop", you were affected by mediated priming (reading one word in a sentence makes you think of another word later on in the sentence)
posted by mathowie at 9:57 PM on April 12, 2000

Ooh...I didn't know it had a name. Thanks, Matt!
posted by veruca at 10:00 PM on April 12, 2000

Or, depending on what you've consumed prior to reading it, it could be medicated priming
posted by wendell at 10:03 PM on April 12, 2000