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This could be one big misunderstanding

Restaurant Bars Blind Man for 'Gay Dog'

THE SUNDAY MAIL - A restaurant in a northwest suburb of Adelaide, Australia that refused a blind man entry because it thought his guide dog was "gay" was ordered by the Equal Opportunity Tribunal to pay him $1,500, The (Adelaide) Sunday Mail.
Ian Jolly, 57, was barred from dining at the Thai Spice restaurant in May 2009 after a staff member mistook his guide dog Nudge for a "gay dog," a tribunal heard this week.
A statement given by restaurant owners Hong Hoa Thi To and Anh Hoang Le said one of the restaurant's waiters said that Jolly's partner Ms. Chris Lawrence stated "she wanted to bring a gay dog into the restaurant."

Source: The (Adelaide) Sunday Mail

Blah Blah Blah...the story continues. Now it seems to me that this might a problem of linguistics rather than an issue of gay-dog bashing...but who knew the problems in Asian speech patterns when speaking English were conceived at the point of hearing words rather than saying them! While Ms. Chris Lawrence might have been saying "guide" the staff at the Thai restaurant was hearing "gay". So the lingual problems of Asians trying to speak English might not be due to the tricky flick of the Asian tongue but perhaps a twist in their ear canal that distorts sound at the cognitive stage!

Also, this blind guy is really brave to be taking his dog into and Asian restaurant, one switcheroo and Nudge might be more dinner than director...more food than followed...more meal than marshal...catch the drift.

In a somewhat related story, when a group of boy (read man) scouts (wearing their little camouflage colored shorts and sashes adorned with their bells and whistles of achievement) tried to eat at the restaurant a couple of days later, they were told the restaurant does not allow guides.

Is it the same as a political science degree?

Both entail sucking the life out of things until nothing is left but an empty shell of nothingness...

Starting next fall, the University of Hertfordshire in England will be offering a graduate program in Vampire Literature. Before scoffing and wondering what one can do with such degree except create an academic pyramid scheme where the first several graduates of the program will be hired to teach the next several enrollees, ask yourself what one can do with a graduate degree in political science. Who's the fool now?