1. Go to the Google<\/strong><\/font><\/a> home page. This has been done before, but better. The type-in was weapons of mass destruction<\/strong>, which brought up a “cannot be displayed” page that was really funny because it looked so right and was such a dead-pan gag. The page lasted for a while as a Google re-direct and might still exist somewhere. A gag is making the email rounds: 1. Go to the Aaaahhhh, on Aug. 11, 2003 in our first Straight Up post, to be precise — and pointed out that the Web wit who thought up the gag and commandeered the Google site was a guy by the name of blogging pharmacist with a taste […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-l4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Type in the word failure<\/strong>.
\n3. Don’t click “Google Search,” click “I’m Feeling Lucky.”
\n4. Spread the word before the people at Google “fix” it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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<\/a>Aaaahhhh, here it is<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. We took note of it a couple of years ago — on Aug. 11, 2003<\/strong><\/font><\/a> in our first Straight Up post, to be precise — and pointed out that the Web wit who thought up the gag and commandeered the Google site was a guy by the name of Anthony Cox<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. We didn’t realize it at the time but he’s a blogging pharmacist<\/strong><\/font><\/a> with a taste for Tom Lehrer <\/strong>and<\/font> the Amateur Transplants<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. How ’bout that.
\n— Tireless Staff of Thousands<\/i>
\nPostscript<\/strong>: Have a listen to the Transplants’ tune about a “brand new wonder drug”: Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. “It can cure the common cold \/ And being struck by lightning. … It reverses impotence\/And makes you good at fighting. … It makes you smart as Einstein \/ And as muscular as Tysin.” And, not to put too fine a point on it, “It’s an antidote to Ricin.” We want a prescription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"