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Devil's Tower

The staff (and fans) of the Antisocial Network have always decried the practice, as employed by many of our DotD nominees, of attempting to reword information one just doesn't understand. A mixture of greed and desperation, however, appears to have caused many an ignorant self-appointed "professional writer" to do just that during the heyday of the content farm. One of the staff was wandering through the content of an online website recently when she came upon a classic example of just that sort of "writing." Here's returning nominee Jason Chavis and his clumsy attempt to explain the "Devil's Tower History" for USAToday.com. The ignorance displayed by Chavis is... well, "towering."

Spanish for Dummy Travelers

Spanish spoken here

One of the staff at the Antisocial Network says that he's qualified to be a world traveler because, or so he claims, he can say "beer" in ten different languages. He admits that he's at a slight disadvantage in some countries, however, because he can only say "bathroom" in nine of them (rim shot!). We can't confirm his count, but we do know that he can say "Una cerveza, por favor," and after quatro o cinco cervezas, he can ask "¿Donde esta el baño?" with the best of them. It makes no difference that, or so we've been told, he speaks Spanish with a French accent. Even if that's true, it's a safe bet he's more fluent than Louie Doverspike, who totally screwed the pooch by pretending to share his expertise in "Common Spanish Words" for USAToday TravelTips (another Demand Media website). God help anyone who needed that advice...