Time for Some Word Fun

The occasion is the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library, in which it is rumored that every book starts with Chapter 11.

  Charlie Pierce

The Walt Disney corporation discovered that some of its staff referred to it as Mauschwitz and sent a memo saying anyone found using this term would be instantly dismissed.

Within 30 minutes the staff was referring to it as Duckau.

  Paradise Cafe

I don’t know if that second one is true or not, but it’s funny, especially the part where Disney officials don’t recognize the irony of issuing a totalitarian response to an insult that compares them to a totalitarian regime. (But it is at least true that people who work there have often referred to it as Mauschwitz.)