Sometimes I just want to share a funny, odd, or otherwise interesting news headline that I’ve run across while reading the news.
Today a saw this one:
“The Latest Hero Exposing Trump’s Corruption Has a Name, and She Is Not F*cking Around”
It’s not all that often you see “the F-word” in a headline!
Note: this thread isn’t about politics or the news content following the headline; it’s just a funny, odd, or otherwise interesting headline.
This one just seemed odd, and lengthy to me:
“Devin Nunes Sues Again; He REALLY Doesn’t Want You To Read This Article About His Family’s Cow Farm In Iowa”
Reports Say Contagious President Is Trying to Escape His Captors Like a Zoo Animal
from Slate dot com.
They’re right on top of things. The headline at that link now reads:
Update: Contagious President Has Succeeded at Escaping His Captors Like a Zoo Animal
Didn’t realize this was an old thread (the “Oct 12” date was from last year not this year (I do know we are in October) – or is that “October 2012”?), but anyway…
This was a nice quote from the article:
The soil of the Central Valley is depicted as almost sacred in these articles. National Review quotes a 1912 Portuguese immigrant farmer who wrote that when he grabs a clump of dirt, “I feel as if I had just shaken hands with all my ancestors.”
From the Daily Beast: Should We Replace the Trump Administration With Chimpanzees?
I wish these weren’t all political but it’s so close to the election I suppose it will stay this way a bit longer. I did not intend for these headlines to be political or focus on any particular candidate.
This headline is a little old now, but I did not know about this thread at the time.
Back in April or so when the pandemic and related stay at home orders were just starting, a story from NPR appeared in my Facebook news feed “Stephen King is Sorry You Feel Like You’re Stuck in a Stephen King Novel”.
I’m so confused:
Starting gun fired on global hunt for hundreds of billions to fund nature protection
Jerry Falwell Jr. Sues Liberty University For Allegedly Damaging His Reputation
More Monkey Business:
“Blind bisexual goose stuck in love triangle with two swans dies aged 40”
Read more: Blind bisexual goose stuck in love triangle with two swans dies aged 40 | Metro News
It’s probably BS but it’s a nice diversion from “Who will be the next US President?”.
[SNAKE ON A PLANE: TED IN FIRESTORM OVER CANCUN CAPER — BLAMES HIS KIDS!] Ted Cruz Slammed After Photos Show Him Flying To Cancun As Texans Freeze | HuffPost Latest News
This was a long, long time ago, but I opened a newspaper (Yes, that long ago) and read something like this:
Ice Cream Truck Driver Shot in Turf War
Story went on to detail a shooting over what neighborhood’s were who’s. It gave the two guys names, and both of them were about 19 letters long with maybe 3 vowels between the two. I thought is was some kind of gag. I had to look at the date to make sure it wasn’t April 1st.
Yikes! So these folks tie a knife blade to the foot of their roosters to give the birds an added advantage when cockfighting, but this owner got stabbed in the groin by his rooster’s blade while handling the bird and died of blood loss before arriving at the hospital.
I guess I’m a jerk but I don’t feel all that bad about that.
The article goes on to say “The rooster was briefly held at the local police station before it was sent to a poultry farm.”
Is that like a penal farm? Is this rooster “doing time for his crime”?
Or is it more like an animal rescue?
Or maybe “the rooster went to live on a farm” is a story similar to the kind told to children about their suddenly missing childhood dogs?
Wow- a quick Google search shows that this is a tiny bit more common than one would think!
The Glasgow Ice Cream Wars:
Mister Softee turf wars in NY:
Also in NY, “The chilly relationship between rival upstate New York ice cream truck operators got out of hand this season, with Sno Cone Joe trying to chase Mr. Ding-A-Ling out of the market, authorities said Wednesday.” Ice Cream Truck Turf War: Sno Cone Joe stalked Mr. Ding-A-Ling, N.Y. police say - CBS News