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rainbow689
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Age : 57
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Location : Laredo TX
 |  Subject: Re: Headlines that shouldn't have happened  Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:41 pm | |
| How about the message in a grocer's:
Mothers kindly stop sitting your babies on the bacon slicer, we're getting a little behind in our orders!
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Malcolm
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Joined : 11 Jan 2008
Posts : 594
Location : Georgia
| | Subject: Re: Headlines that shouldn't have happened Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:23 am | |
| Pam,
In the OLD DAYS, one didn't have a computer to automatically fit the headline into a column. One had to count up the letters by hand. The acronym "flitj" stands for the narrow letters that were counted 1/2 each up toward a max space. That space was determined by the font and size being used.
Malcolm
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Pam
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Age : 42
Joined : 02 Feb 2008
Posts : 1317
Location : Nova Scotia, Canada
| | Subject: Re: Headlines that shouldn't have happened Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:27 am | |
| Ah thank you Malcolm--I've learned something new again today! Love your new signature line too!
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Brenda Hill
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Joined : 16 Feb 2008
Posts : 560
Location : Southern CA
| | Subject: Re: Headlines that shouldn't have happened Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:06 am | |
| How about this:
Have trouble writing about love?
Take a hint from the following metaphors and analogies found in high school essays compiled by a MN magazine:
“He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.”
“She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.”
“Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.”
Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.”
“The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.”
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Malcolm
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Location : Georgia
| | Subject: Re: Headlines that shouldn't have happened Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:43 pm | |
| Brenda, those are nasty in a humorous way...not that Rainbow's lacks quality or anything!
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zadaconnaway
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Age : 60
Joined : 16 Jan 2008
Posts : 1887
Location : Washington, USA
| | Subject: Re: Headlines that shouldn't have happened Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:49 pm | |
| Nose hairs and love? Goodness, has it really come to that?   Those are pretty good, Brenda. 
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Brenda Hill
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Location : Southern CA
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Shelagh
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Joined : 11 Jan 2008
Posts : 2021
Location : UK
| | Subject: Re: Headlines that shouldn't have happened Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:12 pm | |
| "You've got to say that. It goes without saying."
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Brenda Hill
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Location : Southern CA
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Shelagh
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Location : UK
| | Subject: Re: Headlines that shouldn't have happened Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:32 pm | |
|  Ask Pam, Brenda. Pam is still in contact with George and I'm not.
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Shelagh Watkins
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Brenda Hill
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Location : Southern CA
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Pam
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Age : 42
Joined : 02 Feb 2008
Posts : 1317
Location : Nova Scotia, Canada
| | Subject: Re: Headlines that shouldn't have happened Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:25 pm | |
| Brenda he has returned to his other projects, including a great forum for game designers that write/program for a game called Tomb Raider. If you want to get in touch with him, just send me an email and I'll connect you, or you can Google him and see him a whole bunch of the top spots.
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Pam Robertson
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Brenda Hill
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Location : Southern CA
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Dick Stodghill
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Age : 83
Joined : 04 May 2008
Posts : 1029
Location : Ohio
| | Subject: Re: Headlines that shouldn't have happened Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:28 pm | |
| I printed Brenda's list of things those high school kids wrote so Jackie could read them. Then I got thinking about them and kids today who are like me when I was their age. It would be interesting to know how many were deliberately gross. I would have been the guy writing about nose hairs and then laughing to myself when I handed it in. Or maybe I would have been the dog at the fire hydrant.
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lin
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Location : Mexico
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