Last week Conan O’Brien, late night talk show host on NBC, did a comedy bit on NCAA mascots, one of which was introduced as the "sexy and she knows it" FSU Webcam Manatee. Before moving on to the next imaginary mascot, he made a crack about "HornyManatee.com." a fake domain name.
The next night, Conan let the audience know that NBC lawyers had told him to buy the domain name, reasoning that if a viewer were to acquire the rights and post objectionable material, NBC could potentially be held liable for promoting it on air. So NBC bought ten years of rights to HornyManatee.com. Conan’s team quickly threw up a site that included "manatee-on-manatee" action and a live manatee webcam, and, on the next show, he solicited "horny manatee" picture and story contributions.
So far the site has received 4.5 million hits in a week’s time, and fans have submitted hilarious art, video and story contributions.
Read more in today’s New York Times: So This Manatee Walks Into the Internet
Angela Di Pietro
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