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Climax is a city in Minnesota. Over here in North Dakota, we still talk about the 100% legit AP headline that read "Fertile Woman Dies in Climax." Some people add "on the way to Moorhead," which would be plausible, but wasn't in the original.
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Things you never, ever type into your dummy text box, even without intending to print a proof, even as a joke for a coworker ... 
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I'm pretty sure my old paper once printed a cutline that used the phrase "filling the panties" on a picture about food pantries needing donations. Wasn't on a page of mine, thankfully. We also used the headline "HE BEAT IT" when Michael Jackson was acquitted, and no one who was working that day thought there was a double entendre in it. It happened that all 3-4 of us under-30 copy editors had that day off. We explained it to the rest of the desk - and the editor, and the city editor - when we came to work the next day.
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Not My Leg posted:Still not a great name to be stuck with. "Enema" isn't an insult in the United States, but I wouldn't want to be named "Mr. Enema" and I would laugh at an article about an Enema probe. That was about 20 years ago, though, and I'd imagine the American usage has spread via the internet since then, both clinical and insulting.
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Apr 29, 2015 21:05
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I knew a Bobby Brown in the early 90s. Fat white kid who played the accordion.
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Apr 30, 2015 16:12
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razorrozar posted:I thought this was that thread Oh, poo poo, so did I. 
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Apr 30, 2015 18:45
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I must be missing something. Cute pic, normal-sounding headlines ...?
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May 12, 2015 23:06
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My ex (who at 40 still looks 22) always said he had Dick Clark Syndrome. Kids these days don't know what that means. 
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May 13, 2015 15:22
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Hey, that's a headline in Plague Inc. I thought that was one of the ones they just made up.
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May 28, 2015 15:13
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Especially in Russia. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/sitemap/free/1998/4/article/woman-bests-bear/291519.html quote:MOSCOW -- An elderly Russian woman came out on top in a showdown with a bear, dispatching the attacking beast with a knife, Itar-Tass reported Tuesday.
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May 29, 2015 01:10
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A friend hit a moose on the highway once in a small, older car. The hood was smashed, the windshield was broken, the car was totalled. The moose stood up, gave them a dirty look, and walked away.
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Jun 17, 2015 13:49
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Jun 17, 2015 15:05
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My brain came up with a variety of answers for what sort of object an "Asbo" might be before I got around to looking it up. Cane? Weapon? Protective helmet? Brand of telephone? 
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Jun 24, 2015 16:24
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Is that for real?
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Jul 10, 2015 15:22
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My college paper actually used "peeing tom" in a headline, on purpose. Dude was caught urinating while looking in a window.
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Jul 15, 2015 05:24
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quote:"I can have an energy orgasm, which means an orgasm with takes place without touch, meaning I can have sex with my partner when he's on the other side of the room or even on the other side of the planet. Edit: Dienes posted:I'm sorry you haven't figured out how to use AdBlock yet.
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Jul 17, 2015 14:46
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You don't need German to see that the Donkey Kong picture is Pokemon and the Link pic is Yoshi.
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Jul 22, 2015 00:48
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And the fact that there's no sexual assault charge suggests that she was fine with him getting all up in her business until she realized he was trying to steal her stash.
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Jul 22, 2015 14:03
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drgnwr1 posted:Perhaps she was a biggin and was just happy that someone was paying attention to her, even if it was in the process of robbing her? What the gently caress is this bullshit.
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Jul 22, 2015 14:29
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Yeah, it was the "lololol, fat girls are ugly and desperate" thing I was calling bullshit on. It's like he's 12 and we're in 1985 or something. Geez.
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Jul 22, 2015 17:07
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And yet I bet most Americans still subconsciously think that Brits are inherently classier and more sophisticated than we are. (This is why y'all are the villains in every Hollywood movie.)
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Jul 28, 2015 14:30
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I always thought "rasher" meant the whole package of bacon, for some reason. I would just say "a piece of bacon," normally. "Strip" works too.
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Aug 2, 2015 02:22
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Yvonmukluk posted:Actually 'the Suffragette who knew Jiu-Jitsu' was real. That is amazing. (I suspect all these kick-rear end women were featured in 19th century tabloids precisely because women were seen as weak and helpless back then, so it was ~shocking~ when a woman did something badass.)
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Aug 6, 2015 16:47
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The real problem here is the hyphen abuse.
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Sep 9, 2015 20:57
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Aesop Poprock posted:There's a scene where the dude uses a dildo and the girl somehow has no idea it's not a real dick, you're reaching. Also I made this point when the same story was on Jezebel a couple days ago, and a dude tried to mansplain vaginas to me on the basis that his wife says he knows her vagina better than she does. Um, sure. That's believable.
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Sep 12, 2015 16:42
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Geokinesis posted:Journalist went off to the pub for a liquid lunch.  Inside joke maybe?
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Dec 8, 2015 19:45
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I like that he's described as being "very white." Yes indeed.
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Dec 12, 2015 02:54
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Nostradingus posted:Since when did New York have a "correct" color scheme? Well, whatever it is, that ain't it - that's the exact color scheme and font of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who stopped being the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1950s.
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Antivehicular posted:This is fake, right? I don't want to believe someone actually said that about their freshly-dead toddler. quote:Sam, who was almost two years old, had suffered Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in June 2012. Either fake, or terrible journalism. There's no such thing as SIDS affecting toddlers. Either it's straight-up fake, the information is wrong, or someone smothered that kid.
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Apr 9, 2016 17:24
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Istari posted:Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't even the cheapest, crappiest newspapers have editors whose job is to avoid things like this ? This had horrifying/hilarious unintended consequences one time when an ad about Barack Obama's presidential campaign was prominently placed next to a grocery store ad promoting fried chicken and watermelon. We had a bunch of pissed-off readers. It really was an accident!
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Postal Parcel posted:Pookel--->PK(oo)...el--->PCOSBill puppet account spotted
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Jesus Statue’s Butt Was Hiding A 240-Year-Old Secret Message https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jesus-statue-butt-message_us_5a24eff7e4b0a02abe92146e
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