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Oddly enough it was the double meaning of left that I was slow to get.  Not to surprising given that I come from a province where currently the Liberals are far right, the New Democratic Party are center and there is no one Left to vote for.
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Carpal Tunnel
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I maintain that there's no ambiguity, since, if the headline had meant to use waffle as a verb, it would have been British Left Waffle on Falklands. That would have been ambiguous, but, as written, it isn't.
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Carpal Tunnel
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Hey, you're right, Faldage! Brit-speakers tend to say things like 'family are' and 'team are'. Wonder why they didn't put it as you did?
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Mehbe it was a nUSn headline.
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It doesn't involve British breakfast food or violations of the Geneva Convention in WWII, but I saw a supermarket tabloid this weekend that was trumpeting two pieces of "news" just like this (imagine the text centered on the cover of the mag):
JOY!
Drew Barrymore
To Wed!
Courtney Cox's
Baby Girl!
Remove that second ! and it becomes a MUCH bigger story.
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