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The AV Club begins a report:

In 2017, months after numerous sexual assault allegations surfaced against Danny Masterson, outspoken Scientology critic (and host of A&E’s Scientology And The Aftermath) Leah Remini theorized that...

Speaking as someone who doesn't know who Danny Masterson is or what his affiliations are, that was some rather misleading syntax!
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Also, BBC:

'Timeless' show voted 'greatest ever radio programme'

I, naturally, wondered what this radio show called 'Timeless' was about...
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And yet another: a link I saw to a Rolling Stone article bears the incomprehensible headline:

Watch Weezer Tap Finn Wolfhard's Calpurnia for New Take on Me Video
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Salmoneus wrote: Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:20 pm And yet another: a link I saw to a Rolling Stone article bears the incomprehensible headline:

Watch Weezer Tap Finn Wolfhard's Calpurnia for New Take on Me Video
Completely comprehensible to an alt-rock hipster like me (though my internal fifth grader is relishing the ambiguity of "tap").
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From the introductory section of the Wikipedia article on hot sauce:

Criteria in food grading for chili sauces in the U.S. includes coloration, consistency, character, absence of defects and flavor.
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judging by some of the hot sauces I've tried, an absence of flavor is definitely popular
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Subtitle from a Chicago Tribune article: 17-year-old cops say shot another faces life term.
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ye gods.
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This is NOT a confusing headline - more like a headline indicating the writers might have been confused:

https://twitter.com/MarshallJulius/stat ... 2906556416


For those of you who, for whatever reason, can't read headlines in photos of newspaper pages, the headline says
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"China may be using sea to hide its submarines"
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not really a headline, actually a youtube video

Gruesome Murder of Boy, Grandparents Ends in Conviction
when the hell did that happen
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Masterchef 2019: Squid risotto helps seal win in all-female finale

Legitimately had me for a moment.
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I never realized there were contests on TVs in which seals could be contestants.
Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
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Well, the meal involved squid, so I guess a seal might know something about that.
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