There was a similar one today (can't remember the source - possibly Metro or the Evening Standard?): Bandmates pay tribute as Babyshambles guitarist dies aged 46.
At least the Indy managed "... pay tribute after guitarist dies ..."
Perhaps they've been reading this thread, or perhaps they just have a more intelligent editorial team.
Stronary. You couldn't make it up! I thought one 'proved one was a Christian' by displaying (some of) the Fruits of the Spirit, not one's naughty dangly bits.
A former Tory Cabinet Minister (cast onto the scrap heap last year) made it her first task on taking office to instruct her staff to cease using the Oxford comma.
Happily, she wasn't in post for long enough to make sure of implementing this instruction, which was clearly her Number One Priority.
"Wales Online" (as ever): Two grey pebble-dashed terraced houses 'used as brothels' in Welsh city. Fair enough - but why did they feel they had to mention the texture of the walls?
Haven't they had a couple of attempts to become independent?
I'm sure there has been a (failed) referendum or two in my lifetime.
Presumably, as democratic means have not got this group what they want, they thought they'd try something a bit more forceful.
My local paper, on its website, has a column for recently breaking news items. The standard format is to describe the news item, followed by a statement of when the update was posted (an hour ago, 2 hours ago, etc.). It does, on occasion, result in confusing sentences. For example, today's howler:
Police identify the man shot and killed by officers on July 4th after he allegedly fired at them an hour ago
But you have put your finger on why the headline is so weird.
ETA - it was from the Washington Post - sounds like some headline writer indulging their sense of the weird but that headline would not have flown in Canada.
From Guess-where? "M48 Severn Bridge forced to shut completely". Well, thank goodness - just imagine if they'd let people drive halfway across and then stopped them. (To be fair, the article goes on to say "in both directions" - but then spoils things by saying that the closure is due to "unprecedented" wind speeds, which I don't believe for a moment!
I suspect it has to do with the bracketed : such that, read at a quick glance, it suggests that live 16- and 17-year olds will vote but not, presumably, the dead ones.
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I'll get me coat.
"My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me". (Job 30:27, AV).
Was the crime reported on TiKTok?
I think drivers who go round it would be surprised to learn that! https://emmareed.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/carters-steam-fair-29.jpg
I thought that he was only 69.
I don't need to tell you where that came from.
At least the Indy managed "... pay tribute after guitarist dies ..."
Perhaps they've been reading this thread, or perhaps they just have a more intelligent editorial team.
[Edit: Typo amended. - Wesley J, Circus Host]
Ta for the correction, much appreciated.
A trio of rather odd surnames (what would be the collective noun for such things, do you think?).
A punnet?
Er... not quite.
From "Wales Online" - a masterpiece of ambiguity: "John McEnroe straight up tells Wimbledon star he should retire now after speaking to his wife".
Talking of the Chambledon Wimbleships, I must go and see who the remaining Brits* are being stuffed by.
* but kudos to all the Brits who made it through yesterday - apparently it was our most successful day in the Modern Era.
I'm not sure when the Modern Era started - just after the Romans left? after Fred Perry retired? before the delectable Bjorn Borg started winning?
And we all thought her parents were Mr and Mrs Middleton ...
ETA: before you all start getting pedantic on me, I know it would have needed a misplaced comma, but it still made me chuckle.
Happily, she wasn't in post for long enough to make sure of implementing this instruction, which was clearly her Number One Priority.
The very thought of grey pebble dash is abominable. What's wrong with primrose, or (under the circumstances) pale red?
Unfortunately the reality isn’t really very far off the headline.
I'm sure there has been a (failed) referendum or two in my lifetime.
Presumably, as democratic means have not got this group what they want, they thought they'd try something a bit more forceful.
Lazarus packing heat?
(Edit: Gentle layout amendment. - Wesley J, Circus Host)
They were acting in an… unofficial… capacity:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mcguinty-rcmp-militia-members-plot-1.7582071
But you have put your finger on why the headline is so weird.
ETA - it was from the Washington Post - sounds like some headline writer indulging their sense of the weird but that headline would not have flown in Canada.
From the Beeb and other outlets:
Let's hope the hitter-and-runner will get caught!
Missing man lay dead in council toilet for six days as wife demands answers
Read very strangely at first glance!
I'm missing something, I suspect, but how so?
No word yet on who made the map that was named best in Wales, nor who it was that saved the map.