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More Candidates Hunting For Votes With Guns

From NPR 23 August 2010 (source).

Submitted by Dan Adler who comments:

In other words, “Vote for me, or else!”

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Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully to announce future

From the Arizona Daily Star 22 August 2010 (source).

The headline has since been changed.

Submitted by Alan R. Solot who comments:

Vin Scully has always been my very favorite baseball announcer. But, has he moved from broadcasting the Dodgers to being a psychic?

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U.S. stocks crater, sending Dow to six-week low

From MarketWatch 24 August 2010 (source).

Submitted by Daniel Barkalow who comments:

Turns out craters aren’t such a good place to keep products and supplies.
We’ll try warehouses and store shelves in the future.

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Memorial sex act woman arrested

From the BBC 25 August 2010 (source).

The headline has since been updated.

Submitted by Rick.

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104-Year-Old Remains Found in Backpack

From The Daily Beast 20 August 2010 (source).

Submitted by Cassondra Vick who comments:

How old are the remains again?

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MAY I MARRY LORD HAREWOOD ASKS THE QUEEN

From the London Evening Standard around 1978.

Submitted by Mike who comments:

all caps no punctuation

I’ve lost count of the interpretations

but why should the queen want to marry again I wondered at a tender age!

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Monster Mash: ABT headed to Cuba; Aztec remains unearthed in Mexico City

From the Los Angeles Times Entertainment Blog 19 August 2010 (source).

Submitted by Daz Moore who comments:

“Aztec remains” can be taken two ways, either the remains were dug up or just left there ;o)

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Leftover turkey hunting licenses available

From the Associated Press 20 August 2010 (source).

Submitted by Paul Gallagher who comments:

I like leftover turkey.

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Facebook ‘dislike’ scam warning

From the BBC 16 August 2010 (source).

Submitted by Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine who comments:

I guess they ‘like’ the scam?

(This blossom may not work as well for US English speakers, who’d presumably expect “Facebook ‘dislikes’…”, but as a British speaker, it seems quite natural enough that I didn’t work out the correct reading until I was a couple of paragraphs into the story.)

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