Robert Darnton, Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature (New York: W.W. Norton, 2014), 161-2.
My acquaintances among East German editors had a whole repertory of stories about changes made by overzealous proofreaders and mischievous compositors. The best known was a supposed typographical error in an anatomy textbook, which proofreaders mysteriously managed not to catch in edition after edition for many years. It concerned a muscle in the buttocks called the “Glutäus maximus,” which was printed as the “Glutäus marxismus.”
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Future variant: hand sanitizer contaminated with a substance teenage boys produce in abundance.
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/teenagers-offer-free-squirts-hand-19654287
Yorkshire Live, 19 January 2021
Teenagers offer free squirts of hand sanitiser to shoppers in Bradford - but it's super glue
A group of teenagers put superglue in a hand sanitiser bottle and offered free squirts to shoppers in Bradford, claims a woman who narrowly avoided the trap. The boys were reportedly stood outside Morrison's supermarket at Five Lane Ends, yesterday evening. They were spotted approaching different shoppers in turn, offering them free squirts from the branded hand sanitiser bottle. […]
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A contemporary legend which emerged in the mid-1980s concerned a man in a superhero costume who, while role playing with his partner in their bedroom, broke a leg or knocked himself out after jumping from a piece of furniture, such as a wardrobe or dresser. See https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/superhero-unconscious-bed/.
The randy fellow in this cartoon is risking such an outcome. Alden Erikson, Playboy, vol. 18, no. 5, May 1971, p. 215.
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