Paging all Short Sell Bidders

The article is funny enough, but the icing on the cake is the New York
Times definition of Puts as "short-sell bids".

"For others, it might be the fact that the air-defense network did not
prevent the attacks that day, or the appearance of thousands of "puts"
— or short-sell bids — on the nation's airline stocks." -
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/us/05conspiracy.html

Either The Times or some conspiracy theory loon is just making up this
terms. Someone should let Patrick Byrne know, we make have solved the
mystery of the Sith Lord.