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April 04, 2016, 02:10
BobHale
Another headline from my local (UK) newspaper's website
Am I the only one who thinks this is funny?

'Filthy, insanitary and infested': Rat-infested chip shop owner jailed


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
April 04, 2016, 09:54
Geoff
So filthy it's insane? Roll Eyes
April 04, 2016, 21:12
BobHale
I read it as a filthy, insanitary and rat-infested owner of a chip shop.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
April 05, 2016, 02:41
BobHale
I see that on the website it has now been changed to "Filthy and Insanitary": Owner of rat-infestd chip shop jailed." which is better but still gives the impression that it is the owner who is filthy and insanitary.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
April 05, 2016, 08:06
arnie
quote:
still gives the impression that it is the owner who is filthy and insanitary.

Perhaps he or she is?


Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
April 08, 2016, 20:36
Kalleh
In the first one, I agree with you. In the second? I don't take it that way.
June 01, 2016, 14:24
<Proofreader>
The Daily Caller, a disreputable Republican website known for poor proofing, ran this paragraph as part of a longer story:

hings at Nick’s Riverside Grill in Georgetown got messy at a recent happy hour after a patron allegedly lost control of their bowls at the restaurant and preceded to trash the establishment in a Yelp review for poor service.

First the patron lost bowel control. But can "a person" lose "their"? And they can't possibly precede.
June 01, 2016, 20:42
Kalleh
Well, I think "patron" lost "their" is becoming more acceptable these days. I don't get the part about losing bowel control. Was it supposed to be something else?
June 02, 2016, 10:54
Geoff
quote:
Originally posted by Proofreader And they can't possibly precede.


There was a young lady named Bright
Who could travel much faster than light
She left home one day
In a relative way
And came home the previous night.

Ogden Gnash
June 02, 2016, 12:58
<Proofreader>
I believe I am out of the loop
So could someone please give me the scoop.
Is it right to kvetch
That she's making one retch
When the lady is squatting in poop?
June 22, 2016, 09:39
<Proofreader>
A local rag related the story of a murder. They said "the husband stabbed the victim to death fifteen times."-
June 22, 2016, 20:15
Kalleh
I'd love to meet the editor of this "rag" of yours. You sure have quite an array of these headlines. Wink
July 07, 2016, 17:43
<Proofreader>
Huffington Post had this headline:

The Final Benghazi Hearing Will Been Done In Secret
July 07, 2016, 21:07
Kalleh
They can have secret hearings, can't they? Or are hearings, by definition, public?
July 12, 2016, 19:54
<Proofreader>
Publisher's Clearing House has apparently redefined a word in their latest contest. The contest offers the winner $5,000 a week "forever". I always thought forever meant ad infinitum, but not in this case.

According to their commercial, the winner get the money until they die and can name a beneficiary who will receive the award for the rest their ife. But that's where the "forever" hits a wall.
July 14, 2016, 20:59
Kalleh
Actually, that's generous. I took "forever" to mean "until death do us part."
July 29, 2016, 09:38
<Proofreader>
Our local Fox "news" station featured a story about a man who (for charity) walked the length of the Appalachian Trail, The reporter said he reached "the summit of the trail". While the trail may indeed end on a mountain, isn't the end point the "terminus"?
July 29, 2016, 21:17
Kalleh
Or something else besides "summit." That would have been confusing to me.