MSNBC's News Ticker Goes Haywire, Spouts Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
If you were watching MSNBC's Way Too Early yesterday morning, for some reason, you may have noticed that the network's news ticker appeared to have been hijacked by someone who, despite a prodigious vocabulary, was making absolutely no sense.
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Only quite a fatuous individual would question the use of the mentally salubrious nature of sophisticated commentary, as demonstrated in this public.
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Was it a prank? A puzzle? No, but still a little weird: The gibberish phrases came from a four-year-old thread called "make sentence with big words" on the online games site Kongregate, where posters tried to one-up each other in a contest of abstruse vocabulary.
It's not clear how those long-dead forum posts made their way onto live TV. Mediaite suggests they were being used as a kind of Lorem Ipsum—filler text used to show off typography or take up space in a design template.
MSNBC blamed the episode on a "templating error."
You had one job, poor Riddleschool. Wow.