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  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    Not from a newspaper this time but a photograph of a public notice a friend shared this morning. The original is in capitals and set out in lines as below, but I cannot replicate here the way each line is centred.

    "SMOKING
    BARE FOOT
    PETS
    PROHIBITED IN BUILDING"

    I assume this is not meant to mean your dog can come in and smoke but only if it wears little bootees.
  • sionisaissionisais Shipmate
    Enoch wrote: »
    Not strictly from a headline, but this ambiguity is from a brief news summary circulated by the iPaper today. 'Its' in this, is the Green Party.
    Its leader Zack Polanski insists he’s going nowhere.

    Reminds me of Thatcher’s “This lady’s not for turning”.

  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    sionisais wrote: »
    Enoch wrote: »
    Not strictly from a headline, but this ambiguity is from a brief news summary circulated by the iPaper today. 'Its' in this, is the Green Party.
    Its leader Zack Polanski insists he’s going nowhere.

    Reminds me of Thatcher’s “This lady’s not for turning”.

    Mind you, that was a riff on the title of a once-popular play 'The Lady's Not For Burning'
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    And it was written by her speechwriter ...
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