I do enjoy seeing headlines or titles that are just too obvious to be put into print but are anyway.
"Bible Translators Find Sensuality in Bible's Song of Songs"
(Really, what a surprise - how hard do you think they had to look?)
A medical journal headline read "Doctors find new links between mind and body!" (how new could they be, for that matter I didn't think it was safe to separate mind and body.)
Anyone else notice others?
"Prices at pump soar as oil hits new high".
"Gas prices soar on supply/demand fears: analysts"
This isn't a headline, but it's become a byword in our household. Some years ago I received in the mail, unsolicited, a package of animal fact cards, complete with stupendous offer to buy more, plus a binder for them. I passed on the offer, but read the cards. The one for the polar bear read, in part: "The polar bear's sense of smell is so sensitive that it can smell a dead whale twenty miles away." To which our rejoinder, between gusts of laughter, was "WHO COULDN'T?"
> "The polar bear's sense of smell is so sensitive that it can smell a dead whale twenty miles away." To which our rejoinder, between gusts of laughter, was "WHO COULDN'T?"
I have smelt a 50-ton whale rotting on a Perth beach before and it certainly was potent from several hundred metres away ... I don't know if a human could smell it at 20 miles, but it doesn't surprise me that plenty of animals can!
Informative headline:
'Testimony to play crucial role in trial'
Cross threading from the story linked in Father Steve's "Potty Mouth Arrives in OED"
"To suit the pace of our lifestyle today there is a growing tendency to mix words together to make entirely new ones called blends," the dictionary researchers said. (Emphasis mine)
I have smelt a 50-ton whale rotting on a Perth beach before and it certainly was potent from several hundred metres away
How hard was the freeze that day?