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Topic: Ambiguous headlines
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Nighttrain
Member (Idle past 4014 days) Posts: 1512 From: brisbane,australia Joined: 06-08-2004
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Message 1 of 8 (400556)
05-14-2007 9:19 PM
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Things they really didn`t mean. Come one, come all, with your best bloopers from the present or past
Bush to counter gas emissions Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
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jar
Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 2 of 8 (400564)
05-14-2007 10:42 PM
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Reply to: Message 1 by Nighttrain
05-14-2007 9:19 PM
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The Fall.
Several years back the Savannah, Ga paper carried banner headlines, "Car theft down 200%." I immediate ran outside expecting to see another car in the driveway.
Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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subbie
Member (Idle past 1275 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: 02-26-2006
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Message 3 of 8 (400577)
05-15-2007 6:59 AM
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Perhaps apocryphal, but my spanish teacher in high school repeatedly talked about a headline he saw one time in a small town Minnesota newspaper:
quote:
Fertile Woman Dies in Climax
Those who would sacrifice an essential liberty for a temporary security will lose both, and deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
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FliesOnly
Member (Idle past 4165 days) Posts: 797 From: Michigan Joined: 12-01-2003
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Message 4 of 8 (400598)
05-15-2007 2:20 PM
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Reply to: Message 3 by subbie
05-15-2007 6:59 AM
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Ok, usually I can figure out what they "meant" to say...but this one has me stumped. Did they grossly misspell "clinic"?
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kjsimons
Member Posts: 822 From: Orlando,FL Joined: 06-17-2003 Member Rating: 5.3
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Message 5 of 8 (400599)
05-15-2007 2:25 PM
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Reply to: Message 4 by FliesOnly
05-15-2007 2:20 PM
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Fertile,MN woman dies in Climax,MN.
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Taz
Member (Idle past 3312 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: 07-18-2006
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Message 6 of 8 (400600)
05-15-2007 2:47 PM
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This isn't a headline. It's something I read long ago. Can't remember where. It made me laugh the whole day. Morning Sermon: Jesus Walks on Water.Evening Sermon: Searching for Jesus.
We are BOG. Resistance is voltage over current. Disclaimer: Occasionally, owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have used he/him/his meaning he or she/him or her/his or her in order to avoid awkwardness of style. He, him, and his are not intended as exclusively masculine pronouns. They may refer to either sex or to both sexes!
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Dan Carroll
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I had a whole book of these once... my favorite was "Hershey Bars Protest." Here's a page of them!
"I know some of you are going to say 'I did look it up, and that's not true.' That's 'cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, look it up in your gut." -Stephen Colbert
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subbie
Member (Idle past 1275 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: 02-26-2006
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Message 8 of 8 (400605)
05-15-2007 4:12 PM
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Reply to: Message 4 by FliesOnly
05-15-2007 2:20 PM
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Two towns in Minnesota, Fertile and Climax.
Those who would sacrifice an essential liberty for a temporary security will lose both, and deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
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