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Now, that's a cat with ambition!

Headline writers often fail to consider how their work will read. This e-mail subject line caught my eye:

Make up your mind, guys...

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Headline writers often fail to consider how their work will read. This e-mail subject line caught my eye:

Heh. I'm reminded of a "clickbait" headline generator upon which I stumbled some time ago; here's a few examples it just made for me:

22 Fresh & Easy Spring Recipes To Help You Appreciate Fantasy Literature

NSA Leaker's Romantic Life Reads Like A Pro From Ernest Hemingway Thought a Cast Member

4 Recent Scandals That Are Nicer With Nutella Cookies

Kmart Made A Straight Man Cry With Their Parents Adorably

How to Make Your Own Mortality

25 Secrets Servers Will Never Understand: Why Billionaires Pay Less for Everything You Can Do Good Wife

Russian-Backed Separatists Hit Ukrainian Vessel in First Naval Attack Of The Best Things About 'Clarissa Explains It All'

My favorite was in USA Today many years ago. In a single column:

North seals
deal on
Iran-Contra
testimony

I have always thought there was something fishy about that...

(deposits a bait bucket in the pun jar)

There used to be (maybe still is) a feature called "the lower case" ("Headlines that editors probably wish they could take back" )...

Yes, there still is. It's compiled by The Columbia Journalism Review.

An example of the kind of thing found there:



The Daily News, Newburyport, 7/3/14

Then there was the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine, quite a few years ago, with the following among its blurbs for articles to be found inside:

1. How to get the man you want

2. Get mess and stress out of your life

(Ladies, make up your minds!)

Gainesville is a MAJOR chicken raising and processing center.
 
Big ole trucks loaded with hundreds of chickens in teeny little cages roll through town every day, hauling them from the feeders to the processing plants.  (Sometimes the trucks wreck.)
 
Anyway.  Today on Jesse Jewell Parkway (maybe half a mile or so from the monument in the first link above), which is one of the main streets that rush hour traffic uses in Gainesville (not that it's such a much as a "rush hour", really), apparently a chicken managed to get out of one of the cages during rush hour.
 
(It did not provide an answer to the age-old riddle, however)
 


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Warrl wrote:Then there was the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine, quite a few years ago, with the following among its blurbs for articles to be found inside:

1. How to get the man you want

2. Get mess and stress out of your life

(Ladies, make up your minds!)

No, there's actually no conflict between these two at all.

First, the lady gets the desired man.

Second, the lady figures out a way to put the man into carbonite freeze, and places him in the corner where he can serve as a coat-rack. Freeze-drying, a Slaver stasis field, or a really thorough coat of varnish can substitute for the carbonite if it's not available locally. An occasional light dusting is all that's required after that.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:(It did not provide an answer to the age-old riddle, however)

Yah. "Cross the road" and "Coat the road" are different enough that the answer to one, would not apply to the other.

I think I had Atsali as a passenger on my bus, yesterday. Of course, she was incognito, with a shorter hairdid, and some sort of tattoo, but her, um, "features" were quite remarkably noticeable... I did not take any photo, as that would have been improper, and I made sure to look into her eyes (as I do with all passengers) as she got on, and back to the business of driving, afterwards, as it is not polite to stare...

lake_wrangler wrote: hairdid

"Hairdid" - i like that word.

Perhaps related to "hairdone", a hair arrangement which requires the aid of an enthusiastic partner (of either gender).

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

lake_wrangler wrote: hairdid

"Hairdid" - i like that word.

Perhaps related to "hairdone", a hair arrangement which requires the aid of an enthusiastic partner (of either gender).

Of course, I have no claim to originality, here...

For $78k, Canon will sell you ‘world’s longest’ 4K ultra-telephoto cinema lens

Les Shu/DigitalTrends wrote:Canon’s newest lens is something the majority of the Earth’s 7 billion people will never put their hands on, but it’s still interesting to see what a $78,000 lens would look like. In case you’re wondering, that kind of money would buy you a very well equipped luxury sedan or a small house in many parts of the country.

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"...a very well equipped luxury sedan..."

Or a well-set-up Caterham Super 7, last i looked, which i'd rather have.

I can't help but wonder just what kind of photography that kind of lens would be used for...

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Or a well-set-up Caterham Super 7, last i looked, which i'd rather have.

Yeah, but... Where do you put the luggage?

lake_wrangler wrote:I can't help but wonder just what kind of photography that kind of lens would be used for...

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Or a well-set-up Caterham Super 7, last i looked, which i'd rather have.

Yeah, but... Where do you put the luggage?

Luggage? Caterham owners don't use luggage.

They post their clothes on ahead.

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The Seven featured on Patrick McGoohan's TV series, The Prisoner, was actually played by two different cars loaned by Caterham at different times.



I understand that Caterham owns the KAR 120C plate and uses it on demonstrators (which is what the first Seven used on The Prisoner was - it was sold before they needed a Seven again for the later episodes, so they made a replica out of another demo.)

The World's Tallest Cow

After seeing the legs on that thing I expected it to start dancing.

lake_wrangler wrote:I think I had Atsali as a passenger on my bus, yesterday.

She didn't start humming or anything, did she?

Perhaps you could have asked if she would let you look at her flight feathers.

lake_wrangler wrote:I can't help but wonder just what kind of photography that kind of lens would be used for...

Filming amusing kitty antics. The same primary use as every other camera lens that has ever existed and ever will exist.

shadowinthelight wrote:After seeing the legs on that thing I expected it to start dancing.

That's some freaky stuff!

Catawampus wrote:

lake_wrangler wrote:I think I had Atsali as a passenger on my bus, yesterday.

She didn't start humming or anything, did she?

Not to my knowledge. At least, not in my presence. But articulated busses are 62' long, so who knows what she might have done, back there, and I wouldn't know...

Catawampus wrote:Perhaps you could have asked if she would let you look at her flight feathers.

I would never be so impretinent...

Catawampus wrote:

lake_wrangler wrote:I can't help but wonder just what kind of photography that kind of lens would be used for...

Filming amusing kitty antics. The same primary use as every other camera lens that has ever existed and ever will exist.

Of course. And from any distance, too ("50-1000" focal length!), in order to keep it more natural (i.e. the kitty doesn't even know you're filming, so it won't feel self-conscious...

lake_wrangler wrote:

Catawampus wrote:

Catawampus wrote:Perhaps you could have asked if she would let you look at her flight feathers.

I would never be so impretinent...

"Pardon me, Miss, but I couldn't help but notice that you likely have a truly lovely set of remiges. . ."