Sweet Reuters Headline

I know I’m not supposed to just post a linkwithout comment, but c’mon, what else is there to say?

Good one :slight_smile:

Thanks, now I totally feel like I’m eleven years old again.

  • snicker *

Now I feel bad because I laughed out loud.

Aaaand the author’s name is Gene Cherry. Figures it’d be a noob.
Beauty.

How do they measure that, by the stroke?

Oh, my…some things just write themselves, don’t they?

I’ve mentioned before that the student newspaper for which Hamish once worked once ran a story concerning the university hiring yet another dude as head of student services, breaking its promise to hire more women for key positions. The headline, written by an editor who spoke excellent English but who perhaps didn’t quite get every nuance, was “Vice-Rector Services another male”.

According to the article he was also sloppy out of the blocks. Too much info I’d say.

Heh.

Hee Hee.

Tee hee hee.

It’s not funny. That’s not what they meant.

Heh.

No, seriously.

It’s not that funny.

Ha Ha Ha Ha! :slight_smile:

Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 Meters

Oh, come on!

:eek:

:smiley:

I laughed too. We can be twelve together.

And I teach 7th Grade.

:hangs head in shame:

I’m just imagining this rampaging band of dicks…

They had to know. I mean, really they had to know what it sounded like right? I’ve already had several friends submit it to reddit.

Chessic Sense beat you to it.

Of course they know. How often do you get lines in the paper like “Bad Luck Dogs Greyhound”?

Guess Mahaloth was just sloppy out of the blocks.

I have merged the threads.

twickster, MPSIMS moderator

Was it a drag race? And who was coming last?

This gives a new spin on the term “Headline.”

The latest Radiolab podcast had a segment on search-and-replace errors. They mentioned an error caused by the American Family Association’s reposting of an AP article. The AFA is a conservative Christian group and claim to fight the “homosexual agenda.” This turned a news article about one of the aforementioned runners into something titled, “Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials,” and included the awesome quote, “Asked how he felt, Homosexual said: ‘A little fatigued.’”

Ferret Herder, that’s even funnier than the OP’s link!

After I had a good giggle already.