Odd this day

17 July 2003

Coates
1 min readJul 17, 2024

Well, previously, this highly respected historical resource has lowered the tone rather by celebrating…

…the 43rd anniversary of Texan millionaire Jack Grimm’s first expedition to discover the location of the wreck of the Titanic, which was not successful (but then one of the methods he considered was a monkey trained to point at a map)…

…and the 111th anniversary of the first custard pie thrown in someone’s face in a motion picture…

So: thank heavens that today we can be at our high-minded best and celebrate the fact that it is 21 years to the day since the Guardian ran a story suggesting that

frequent masturbation could protect men from prostate cancer

… and chose to give it the following headline:

Screenshot of Guardian headline: World news — Helping hand in cancer fight

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