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Lonely Planet Author Discovers World's Best Euphemism

January 11, 2007 at 4:28 PM | 0 Comments

Lonely Planet author Joshua Brown is on the road in Taiwan, where he's updating LP's guidebook. We're pleased they're keeping up with that one and not going decades in between refreshes. He's keeping a blog on his own, but recently checked in with Lonely Planet's blog to report on a "fascinating conversation" he had with a prostitute on Lane 32 in Taipei. Fascinating. Conversation. Uh huh.

One of the women, thin, about 30 with dark eyes and a puffy white sweater drawn over her shoulders, looked me up and down, her eyes resting on my copy of the old Lonely Planet guide I was updating.

"What I mean to say," I continued "is that our book is really focused more on introducing westerners to Taiwan's customs and history - parks and museums. Culture, that sort of thing."

The woman in the white sweater spoke up softly. "I have culture."

"I have culture!" Don't we all? It's an instant classic. We are so looking forward to that new guide book.

[Photo: paulverrall]

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