Continuing this mildly whimsical tangent, I'm beginning to wonder if that which was found under the classroom was, in fact, the remains of a Dragon, rather than a Crocodile...
Now, *Dragon Found Under Classroom etc.* would indeed be an eye-catching headline!
An honourable mention from a French language source: Franceinfo this morning with Le meeting immersif de Jean-Luc Mélenchon, qui veut la peau du PS et le retour de Donald Trump (The immersive meeting of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who wants to go after the Socialist Party and the return of Donald Trump).
I couldn't for the life of me figure out why a die-hard old leftwinger like Mélenchon would want Trump back. Turns out the second half is a completely different story.
It refreshes my memory with @Firenze's wonderful post in the thread "Red Letter Ay", film titles with a letter missing.
"The Remains of the Da
Follow Padraig as he pushes a handcart laden with his father’s coffin across the bleak bogs of Connemara towards the lonely burial ground of Killbalnashreeoughter. In the rain."
It would add an extra existential quality if, on his epic journey, Padraig were to meet and perhaps travel a while with these three figures before parting with them so that they can go into the post office and he can continue his journey. Few words would be exchanged. After all, one of them would not say anything at all.
The question remains: Which part? The head and neck or the rest of the body? That's not clear at all and it could make all the difference!
That puzzles me, too. Are they talking half the height? Half the weight? Under either measure, they probably could have gone with "about the size of a male Bactrian camel"....
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That I have my head up my ass?
I hope they make it snappy, so that the poor creature can get back to his/her lair.
120 years ago.
In that case, absent a miracle, its snappy days are long gone.
Asking for a friend...
But it's snappy headline.
Gives a new meaning to 'How Green was my Valley' - assuming that the crocodile was as verdant as the mountains!
Now, *Dragon Found Under Classroom etc.* would indeed be an eye-catching headline!
The dragons are (or were) down the road at Caerphilly: https://tinyurl.com/4fw4kykc
I couldn't for the life of me figure out why a die-hard old leftwinger like Mélenchon would want Trump back. Turns out the second half is a completely different story.
Pray gods (if gods there be) that it never happens...that would be a headline of utter horror...
(Must watch that film again, by the way...!)
Fairly muddled, I'd say. From here.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/22/two-men-take-corpse-into-irish-post-office-to-claim-dead-mans-pension
The headline is weird, but also factually true...
No good if you're in a hurry, then.
It would add an extra existential quality if, on his epic journey, Padraig were to meet and perhaps travel a while with these three figures before parting with them so that they can go into the post office and he can continue his journey. Few words would be exchanged. After all, one of them would not say anything at all.
And, all still in the rain.
Especially in the rain.
It rather begs the question - who is he planning to have it with?
Is possibly Outrage!
Police shoot man with knife
I guess their guns were in the shop.
Brad Pitt sues former wife Angelina Jolie over sale of vineyard bought when they were married to Russian oligarch
Kinky!
Asteroid half the size of a giraffe strikes Earth off the coast of Iceland
"Half the size of a giraffe"? That was the closest they could get for a comparison?:
"Hey, Barney, look at this asteroid!"
"Gosh, that looks about half the size of a giraffe!"
"That's what I was thinking too!"
That puzzles me, too. Are they talking half the height? Half the weight? Under either measure, they probably could have gone with "about the size of a male Bactrian camel"....
And people make fun of Americans for measuring in football fields.