Considering dumb headlines I've seen before, I will not be at all surprised when these someday surface:
"Few unhappy with US follow through on threatened Canada move"
"Smoking still considered unhealthy"
"Researchers say teenagers, toddlers prone to misbehavior"
"Watching sports, drinking beer often correlated"
"Pope Catholic, study finds"
Unpleasant Friday
2 hours ago
8 comments:
what the heck does "few unhappy with US follow through with Canada move" mean? I know that's not word for word, but the post is on another page. Perhaps inflection is required for me to get it.
I too was confused by that one, although I found the others quite amusing.
Craig said it aloud and I got it.
Yeah, I can see that being confusing. I just thought it wouldn't sound headliney with too many words
"Few US citizens unhappy with own government move to Canada, despite prior assertions"?
Because we share a brain, I understood the Canada headline. However, you could make it clearer by adding just one word and reordering some others so that it says "...follow through with move to Canada."
I saw this headline in our paper today and I thought of you.
Study: Rise in Teen Drug Use Pains Parents.
Shocker. I thought parents loved it when their kids used drugs. Silly me.
So the joke is that Bush moves the gov't to Canada?
What I should get is some sort of joke-explaining servant to follow me around...
Here's an example: It's the year 2000. Person A says to Person B, "If George W. Bush gets elected, that's it! I'm moving to Canada!" The study would compare how many people said they would move to Canada with how many actually did it.
Clearly, I should stick to my "OMG, this thing on the internet is SO AWESOME!" posts.
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