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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Unsurprises #146194 08/09/2005 6:55 PM Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Zed Pooh-Bah Zed Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada 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? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Unsurprises #146195 08/10/2005 1:50 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky "Prices at pump soar as oil hits new high". Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Unsurprises #146196 08/10/2005 12:03 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York "Gas prices soar on supply/demand fears: analysts" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Unsurprises #146197 08/10/2005 1:07 PM Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 500 Northern Ontario, Canada Elizabeth Creith addict Elizabeth Creith addict Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 500 Northern Ontario, Canada 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?" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Stay upwind! #146198 08/10/2005 2:06 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin belligerentyouth old hand belligerentyouth old hand Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin > "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' Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Unsurprises #146199 08/10/2005 7:46 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago 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) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Stay upwind! #146200 08/10/2005 9:35 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 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? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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