WORLD headline, Victorville CA Daily Press Dec. 17:

Fear of new turmoil
dogs vote in Kyrgyzstan

Perhaps we’d have a better government if dogs voted also in the U.S.

Fear of new turmoil dogs vote in Kyrgyzstan.

I take it that dog is a verb, the carriage return was persiflage, and the lack of period (or full stop across the pond) was dahilian.

your analysis seems okay, except I've never seen a full stop in a headline.

zm, yes and no. The headline is reproduced exactly as it appeared, but I fear we are spoiling its humorous value by analyzing it in such detail

but I fear we are spoiling its humorous value by analyzing it in such detail

Welcome to my private dahilian bardo. All food has lost its taste; all words have lost their meaning. Everything is permitted; nothing is allowed. A sausage for an algorithm; a peck of sniff for a hundredweight. La!

zm, alas, that's what I get for turning in my credetials as a prescriptivist