Headlines of Utter Weirdness

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  • Would that be the smoke that led the Israelites through the wilderness?
  • Sounds more like the smoke given off as Sodom and Gomorrah burned (Genesis 19:28).
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    The use of "Biblical" in this way always reminds me of a radio broadcast where the "official" weatherman intoned that there was going to be "a snowstorm of Biblical proportions." They then cut back to the local DJ, who queried "Where in the Bible is there a snowstorm???"
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Flames erupt from Brooklyn manholes as cars explode and hundreds evacuated
    (From the Mirror US - where there's also above biblical burning barge headline)

    So, what was first? The exploding cars? Nope. It's the erupting flames, due to a gas leak...

  • Presumably someone put the cars into the manholes first, and they exploded?
  • March HareMarch Hare Shipmate
    Nifty work to get those hundreds evacuated - not much room in manholes.
  • From the informative Glasgow Herald again.... City's only dedicated lingerie store in liquidation. Possibly not hilariously funny or boggling of the mind, but I did wonder about the 'dedicated lingerie'. The imagination was unable to process that phrase.
  • "I dedicate these bloomers to the memory of my dear grandmother, whose life would not have been the same without them".
  • Now I am wondering if the local clergy might have been called in to bless the merchandise.
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    I presume it is described that way to distinguish it from the City's apathetic lingerie store.
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    Iranian dissident found dead in B.C. accused murder suspects of trying to poison him

    A rather sobering headline, but after multiple reads I had no idea of what was supposed to be a noun and what was supposed to be a verb, and had to just read the article. The meaning is that at some point before his death he had accused the suspects of trying to poison him…
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    So not a séance, then?
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    edited March 22
    Today's 'Mail on Sunday': 'Fergie plot to clone the Queen's corgis for reality TV'.
    This has it all!
  • RockyRoger wrote: »
    Today's 'Mail on Sunday': 'Fergie plot to clone the Queen's corgis for reality TV'.
    This has it all!

    I expect she needs the money.
  • RockyRoger wrote: »
    Today's 'Mail on Sunday': 'Fergie plot to clone the Queen's corgis for reality TV'.
    This has it all!

    That's a good one! Takes you back to the good old days of the National Enquirer coming up with a catchy headline and then making up a story to go with it.
  • March HareMarch Hare Shipmate
    Powys County Times reports that a man has been 'jailed last week for arming himself with a knife and besieging himself in his partner's flat'.

    That takes a bit of doing, I'd have thought.
  • sub-editor struggled to find 'barricading' and picked the nearest?
  • BBC: "Porridge recalled over mouse contamination fears". This immediately set me off on the wrong track, as I thought we were recalling the old Ronnie Barker TV comedy!

    Incidentally, I owe my grandchildren to "Porridge" - my son met his future wife when they were both working on a touring stage production of said show.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    edited March 23
    March Hare wrote: »
    Powys County Times reports that a man has been 'jailed last week for arming himself with a knife and besieging himself in his partner's flat'.

    That takes a bit of doing, I'd have thought.

    I hope the man gave himself a good talking-to, and will repent, and ask himself (and then others) for forgiveness.
  • BBC: "Porridge recalled over mouse contamination fears". This immediately set me off on the wrong track, as I thought we were recalling the old Ronnie Barker TV comedy!

    Incidentally, I owe my grandchildren to "Porridge" - my son met his future wife when they were both working on a touring stage production of said show.

    I'm afraid my devious mind wants to know in what way the porridge contaminated the mouse (or mice).

  • Indeed so!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Anyone making the poor little mice eat porridge deserves to be contaminated!
  • "Silkier than French Knickers" says the headline in the Glasgow Herald, which then goes on to add, "...this cheese has just been named the best in Scotland". Purely a matter of personal taste, of course, but that's not any part of my own cheese selection process.
  • "Silkier than French Knickers" says the headline in the Glasgow Herald, which then goes on to add, "...this cheese has just been named the best in Scotland". Purely a matter of personal taste, of course, but that's not any part of my own cheese selection process.

    Well it always works for me.

    (it is a terrible analogy. I don't want anything cheesy compared to underwear.)
  • The analogy is the fault of the cheesemaker, or their publicist.
    Any sub would have made a saucy French allusion to a cheese called "Ooh La La"
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