The story begins with a from the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. Its distinguishing characteristic: a bright blue scrotum. (Don't blame us, we're not responsible for evolution.) The primate's privates made for lively chatter on Fox News, which also reported on the AG's controversial statement that the US is when it comes to race relations.

John Sanders, a tech reporter for WBAL-TV in Baltimore, decided to and post the video on YouTube, making it appear as if Fox News commentator John Gibson was talking about the attorney general's "bright blue scrotum." That clip made it to , where a HuffPost blogger found it and broadcast it to the world, not realizing it was just a hoax.

Huffington later . The monkey was captured about 45 minutes after its escape, and over the joke gone sour.

April 2009: Hell hath no fury like several thousand gay and lesbian people scorned, as Amazon learned earlier this month when a cataloging error made the World's Biggest Store look like the World Biggest Homophobe. Automated software used by the online retailer to make porn harder to find on its site ended up .