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Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:27 am
by Salmoneus
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!
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:31 am
by Salmoneus
Also, BBC:
'Timeless' show voted 'greatest ever radio programme'
I, naturally, wondered what this radio show called 'Timeless' was about...
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:20 pm
by Salmoneus
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
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 1:13 pm
by Linguoboy
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").
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:24 am
by Linguoboy
Injured baby refuels India pellet gun
row (BBC)
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2019 2:23 pm
by Raphael
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.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:44 am
by alynnidalar
judging by some of the hot sauces I've tried, an absence of flavor is definitely popular
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 4:11 pm
by Linguoboy
Subtitle from a Chicago Tribune article: 17-year-old cops say shot another faces life term.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 4:48 pm
by Salmoneus
ye gods.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2019 11:12 am
by Raphael
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
"China may be using sea to hide its submarines"
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 10:45 pm
by bbbosborne
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 4:24 pm
by Linguoboy
Mullah Omar in Afghanistan book claims 'not credible': official (Al-Jazeera)
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:05 pm
by Linguoboy
Florida man makes beer run with gator in hand (AP)
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 6:13 pm
by Pabappa
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 6:20 pm
by Salmoneus
Masterchef 2019: Squid risotto helps seal win in all-female finale
Legitimately had me for a moment.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 10:21 pm
by Travis B.
I never realized there were contests on TVs in which seals could be contestants.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 6:01 am
by Raphael
Well, the meal involved squid, so I guess a seal might know something about that.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 11:11 am
by Linguoboy
Marijuana Edibles Driving ER Visits in Colorado, Study Reports (Rolling Stone)
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2019 8:02 am
by Hominid
Identical twins named Valedictorian, Salutatorian at Ohio high school
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2019 3:42 pm
by chris_notts
Italy stops UK tourist with Pompeii mosaic tiles
I was wondering for a minute how you stop someone using mosaic tiles...