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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?
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"Prices at pump soar as oil hits new high".
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"Gas prices soar on supply/demand fears: analysts"
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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?"
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> "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'
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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)
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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?
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