| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
To test your level of 'Americanization', see if you can interpret this U.S. newspaper headline: TRIBE SALVAGES TWI-NIGHT SPLIT WITH HOMER BARRAGE. Spoiler follows: Translation: The Cleveland Indians (a major league baseball team) won the second game of a two-game afternoon/evening set of games, after losing the first game, thanks to several home runs. Does anybody have any others (from either side of the pond)?
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| 579.1 | Clue: Understatement | AYOV27::ISMITH | Here's one I prepared earlier. | Tue Nov 01 1988 09:12 | 17 |
A Scottish newspaper headline:
NORTH EAST MAN DIES IN SHIPPING ACCIDENT
which, roughly translated, means
MANY DIE AS TITANIC SINKS
To explain, the Aberdeen Press and Journal apparently heard of the
death of a man from the Aberdeen area when the Titanic went down.
That was about all they knew as they went to press, so they missed
out somewhat on the wider implications of the story. Something of
a classic understatement.
Ian.
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| 579.2 | It was a tight situation | CUPMK::SLOANE | He's STILL on the loose! | Tue Nov 01 1988 21:10 | 23 |
A Boston newspaper headline:
THREE IN BRA INDICTED
which means:
Three employees of the Boston Redevelopment Agency (a housing agency)
were indicted for misuse of agency funds.
Bruce
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| 579.3 | Not the Boston Globe parody | AITG::DERAMO | Daniel V. {AITG,ZFC}:: D'Eramo | Tue Nov 01 1988 23:21 | 12 |
One of the major headlines of the Not the Boston Globe parody
many years back was
Local man killed
(in big letters). Above it in little letters was the sub-headline
New York City destroyed in atomic blast
or something like that.
Dan
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| 579.4 | CHUCKM::MURRAY | Chuck Murray | Fri Nov 04 1988 02:04 | 18 | |
Re: < Note 579.3 by AITG::DERAMO "Daniel V. {AITG,ZFC}:: D'Eramo" >
If my memory serves me right, the parody headline was:
"Hub Man Dies in Times Square Blast" ["Hub" = Boston]
Sub-headline:
"10-Megaton Bomb Destroys Manhattan"
Story goes something like: "Lawrence O'Houlihan, 32, of Dorchester, was
killed Saturday by a bomb blast while visiting his cousin, Tommy
Murphy, in New York City. Also killed were Murphy, his wife Kate,
their two children, and approximately 1 million New York City residents.
Friends in Dorchester remembered O'Houlihan as a hard worker and a
solid family man. "He was a great guy. He'd give you the shirt off his
back," said Carlo Franconi, who worked with O'Houlihan at Rocky's
Auto Body in Chelsea... (etc.)"
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| 579.5 | and in the big news | DOODAH::RANDALL | Bonnie Randall Schutzman | Fri Nov 04 1988 22:45 | 8 |
We had a real one like that when we lived in Binghamton, NY. We
were watching TV one night when the news announcer came on with:
"In the headlines tonight: the situation at Three-Mile Island
worsened today as [...]. Train wreck in Arizona kills twelve.
And in the big news -- the federal housing authority approved a
$12-million loan to improve the downtown parking strip."
--bonnie
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