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From: _mallory
Date: Jul 14, 2016 12:25PM

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:59:09PM +0200, Chaals McCathie Nevile wrote:
> Unfortunately the real-world examples I know of have all been
> carefully buried by the organisations on whose faces the egg landed,
> so I cannot demonstrate live what I mean. But trust me, audiences
> rarely forget the organisation's name years after they watch the
> clip, even if they forget all the details.

One was Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's video where he
talked about meeting Indonesia's then-new President, Joko Widodo,
who was auto-craptioned into Joker Widow or something similarly
offensive.

I've kept track of that video via Michael Lockrey and indeed it's
since been fixed.
_mallory