Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Fundraising letter lists phone sex line WASHINGTON, April 2 (UPI) -- A phone number on a Republican fundraising letter mistakenly sent recipients to a U.S. telephone-sex line, a Republican National Committee spokesman said. Advertisement One Minnesotan who received the mailer and dialed the number listed was offered "live, one-on-one talk with a nasty girl who will do anything you want for just $2.99 a minute," Politico reported Friday. RNC Communications Director Doug Heye said the number printed on the letter had the wrong area code for RNC headquarters in Washington. "The number in question was a typographical error by a vendor used on this particular mailer -- using 1-800 instead of 202," Heye said, adding that the vendor in question won't be used anytime in the foreseeable future. The Minnesotan who called the number listed on the mailer intended to complain that the letter resembled a U.S. census form. Advertisement The RNC declined to say how many of those letters were sent out, Politico said. T-shirts with Biden comment selling out WASHINGTON, April 2 (UPI) -- A grassroots arm of the U.S. Democratic National Committee predicts its "Big (expletive) Deal" T-shirts will sell better than Apple's iPads. Organizing for American representative Brandi Hoffine says the $25 shirts printed with Vice President Joe Biden's recent comment on healthcare legislation sold out the first night they were offered, The Hill reports. Hoffine predicts in an e-mail the shirts will sell "faster than iPads this weekend." The shirts display the remark Biden whispered to President Barack Obama after introducing the president at the signing of the healthcare reform bill last week. Podium microphones captured Biden telling the president "This is a big (expletive) deal." The remark ended up becoming a rally cry for Democrats and Organizing for America decided to have T-shirts printed with it on the front. 300-year-old 'saucy' tales found TROUTBECK, England, April 2 (UPI) -- The National Trust custodian for England's Townend House said a cache of 300-year-old erotica was found hidden behind books in the library. Emma Wright, Trust custodian for the Townend estate in Troutbeck, said a collection of pamphlets bearing erotic stories and illustrations, known as Chapbooks, were hidden in the library of Townend House, which was owned by wealthy farming family the Brownes prior to being passed on to the National Trust, the Daily Mail reported Friday. Advertisement "The Browne book collection goes back through the centuries and proves that rural people had a strong interest in literature," Wright said. "However, as we have gone slowly through the library we have found hidden away these Chapbooks. They contain rather saucy even rude tales which were found to be rather amusing by their 18th-century readers." "The Chapbooks have really caught the imagination. The Brownes were obviously far from straight-laced," she told the Daily Mail. Man told to take down pothole warning ASHFORD, England, April 2 (UPI) -- A British man who put up a homemade sign warning of potholes on the road outside of his house said police ordered him to take it down. Ted Relf, 59, of Shadoxhurst, England, said he put up the sign to make sure people were aware of the poor state of the roads near his home and he was shocked when a police community support officer told him to remove the sign, The Times of London reported Friday. "The police told me it was a distraction but I pointed to the potholes and said that they were too. I was annoyed that police time and resources were being used to investigate a trivial matter," Relf said. Advertisement Police said they visited Relf due to a complaint about the sign. Relf said he agreed to take the sign down, but it will be back if the potholes are not repaired.
