‘Sam In The City’ Name Change Mystery Solved!

While we were researching* for yesterday’s thrilling piece about Bianca Dye’s new blog, we tried to find a link to highly respected Fairfax blogger Sam “Who Pays On The Second Date?/How Soon Should You Have Sex?/How To Text Message In A Way That Ensures A Proposal/Repeat As Necessary” Brett’s Sam In The City column online… only to discover it had gone and been replaced by something called Ask Sam.

At first we just assumed it was Sam’s sneaky way of getting the punters to come up with the material as the well of inane relationship anecdotes had truly been pumped dry. But it turns out we guessed wrong!

Sources tell us that the name was changed from Sam In The City to Ask Sam because HBO – the folk behind television show Sex And The City – felt it was a little too close to their big money spinner’s moniker and threatened to sue.

So now you know.

(We don’t want to be around when search engine Ask Jeeves hears about this.)

*Okay, Googling. Which is research for bloggers, you know. We don’t need facts, it just ain’t how we roll.