Confusing headlines

[zompist]

Not a headline, but here's a nice line from the Independent:

It came after the prime minister's deal was rejected by a record majority of 230, as around 100 of her own backbenchers ignored her last-ditch appeal to vote down the Brexit agreement.

Well, no wonder it lost, if she was whipping up no votes!

[Pabappa]

Sloppy editing at the Rutland Herald tells us that in Vermont, craft breweries now outnumber people:

Vermont is the friendliest state for small-batch suds with 11.5 breweries per capita
....
As of 2018, Vermont tops the list as the most popular state for craft beer, followed closely by Montana and Maine, which each boast 9.6 breweries per capita, followed by Oregon and Colorado.

https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/loca ... 350b3.html

[Risla]

Silly one, but I managed to get garden-pathed by the following sentence from this Wikipedia article:

Slicing the bamboo shoots thinly assists in this leaching.

[Salmoneus]

Manafort confronts lying charges in court (politico)

Seems to prejudge the charges a little, no?

[mèþru]

New York white supremacist sword attacker pleads guilty (from BBC)
The headline sounds to me like the sword attacker killed a white supremacist, but the supremacist is the attacker.

[akam chinjir]

New York white supremacist sword attacker pleads guilty (from BBC)
The headline sounds to me like the sword attacker killed a white supremacist, but the supremacist is the attacker.

My first parsing had someone attacking a white supremacist sword.

[Linguoboy]

New York's Punjabi Deli: a safe place for cab drivers at risk of disappearing (Roadsandkingdoms.com)

[mèþru]

I'd never have guessed that the article didn't involve kidnapping

[Salmoneus]

A quite unfortunately missing comma from wikipedia: That daughter also appears, as Gaia Donzella, in the Tavola Ritonda, where she is kidnapped by the knight Burletta of the Desert (Burletta della Diserta) who wants to rape her but is rescued by Lancelot.

To be fair, Gaia Donzella's mother is Morgan le Fay, so technically both parsings are probably accurate here...

[Salmoneus]

Politico:
Dems press agency head for White House plan on Fannie, Freddie


So many things...

[Raphael]

Politico:
Dems press agency head for White House plan on Fannie, Freddie


So many things...

Is the person in question someone like The Head from Against Peace and Freedom?

[Salmoneus]

Got me bemused for a minute or so, from the BBC: Tesco counter cost cuts to hit 9,000 jobs

[Salmoneus]

Politico headline: 2020 hopefuls woo House frosh

[Raphael]

Politico headline: 2020 hopefuls woo House frosh

Was that written by a Politico intern whose first language is German and who couldn't remember the English word for "frog"? But if that's the case, who is the "House frog" and why are 2020 hopefuls wooing it?

[Pabappa]

Frosh is a slang term for freshmen... which in this case almost certainly means Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez... better known these days as AOC.

[Salmoneus]

This one makes sense, except for its highly-misleading line break:

Ex-Arsenal striker denies
Juventus in thrilling match

[Pabappa]

THis one is obviously deliberate so I debated about putting it here, but, since I actually did get confused by this, here i go:

BEZOS EXPOSES PECKER

also at https://nyp.st/2DZyD4A , not sure who had it first. The HuffPo story seems to have removed the headline now.

[Vijay]

Old but:

Batman sues Batman over Batman

[mèþru]

Sadly, that mayor was arrested for "terrorism" not that long after that story

[Qwynegold]

Not a confusing headline, but I just wanted to share this awesomely clunky quintuple compound from msn.com:

Fotbollsmålvaktslegendar död - blev 81 år
fot-boll-s-mål-vakt-s-legendar död blev 81 år
foot-ball-GEN-goal-guard-GEN-legendary.ANIM dead become.PST 81 year.PL
Football goalkeeper legend dead - became 81 years old