Bird flu arrives in Southwest after millions of birds die
Now, I am not a veterinarian or a zoologist, but I suspect the bird flu arrived just before the birds died, not after.
To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
Bird flu arrives in Southwest after millions of birds die
Now, I am not a veterinarian or a zoologist, but I suspect the bird flu arrived just before the birds died, not after.
STL company to open 2nd HQ in Baltimore area
They mean:
STL company to plans to leave St. Louis
Although leaving St. Louis for Baltimore seems a bit like going from the frying pan into the free-fire zone.
Peloton to trial new subscription model
The verb you’re looking for is try.
Maybe the headline writer is just heeding Yoda’s advice.
Apparently, the greatest grave robbing crime in history.
So I spent some time on Thanksgiving with an X-Acto knife and fifteen-year-old copies of magazines like French Cottage and English Garden that I bought at an estate sale in the autumn and that languished on the desk in my parlor ever since. Don’t ask me what for.
But I did snicker at this article headline.
French Bohemian flair? That’s like saying Canadian Mexican flair. One suspects the headline writer only knew Bohemian as the adjective for funky hippie artistic, not that Bohemia was an actual place in Europe that’s now part of, what, the Czech Republic? Although it has been held by the Germans and the Holy Roman Empire in the past, it has never been part of France.
Oh, all right, I’ll tell you why: Because this autumn, I did a couple of découpage projects, and I bought a big bottle of Mod Podge for them, so I thought I’d pick up some magazines to look for images to use in collages. So I finally got around to cutting out promising looking images and discarding the remainder of the magazines. When my beautiful wife asked me about it, I gave her the real answer: I am generating raw materials for crafts that I won’t get around to doing, much like already clutter the shelves in the garage.
Lost memoir paints revered philosopher John Locke as ‘vain, lazy and pompous’
Just kidding. After the last season of that show, I can’t be arsed to rewatch or think much about it except to make gag blog posts.
(Headline via Powerline’s The Week in Pictures.)
But I was not standing shoulder to shoulder with her other fans: Loren Cook Fans protect Republic, MO Amazon Fulfillment Center
Just kidding. I have never heard any of her music. Is she any good?
One moment: I have been handed a note–apparently, this is a sponsored story by a ventilation company, not a group of like-aestheticked individuals coming together to stop looting.
Never mind, carry on.
Old and busted: Wine Moms.
New hotness: Wine Kids.
Winery owner to buy Missouri nursery
Wait a minute, I’ve been handed a note: The Springfield Business Journal headline is misleading. Apparently, the corporation owning the winery is buying landscaping companies.
Never mind, carry on.
And recognize that this might well be the very last time, at least according to the chronology of the writing, where you read Old and busted/new hotness.
Plymouth shooting gunman ‘is America obsessed gun nut who shared Donald Trump quotes’
Undoubtedly, his favorite was the one where Donald Trump said if you cannot get laid, you maybe should try injecting some lead into random people; it couldn’t hurt.
You might be forgiven, casual news glancer, if you started to connect Donald Trump and QAnon and Republican with anything bad ever happening anywhere on the planet.
Forgiven? Heck, you will be rewarded with up-twinkles.
Man killed his kids with spear gun because of QAnon conspiracy theories, FBI says:
A California father confessed to killing his two young children after researching QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories that led him to believe they had “serpent DNA,” according to an FBI affidavit.
Matthew Taylor Coleman, a 40-year-old surf instructor, has been charged with killing his 2-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter, the Associated Press reported.
The man killed them because he was crazy. Also, estranged from their mother.
But, gentle reader, if you got the impression from the headline that he killed them because he felt the 2020 election might have had some notable irregularities and because Donald Trump told him to inject spears into his children, well, the Right Thinkers are guiding you to the Right Way.
Full disclosure: I do not spread QAnon conspiracy theories. I spread QAoui conspiracy theories.
Losing wisdom teeth may enhance sense of taste, new research suggests
You should have seen the tie I picked for church yesterday. Clearly my sense of taste has not been enhanced by the removal of my wisdom teeth before my failed sedation dentistry experiment of 2000.
(Headline via Instapundit.)
Sheriff goes to hospital after motorcycle accident, suffers minor injuries
The headline makes it sound like he got the injuries from the trip to the hospital, not the motorcycle accident, ainna?
Texas officials race to administer 5,000 COVID vaccines after power outage
Although one would expect they would use cow sleds instead of dogsleds.
Program looks for teachers to bring program to rural schools
Just kidding. Government programs and charitable organizations have been self-aware and looking to live on like living organisms for a long, long time.
Still, it was a funny headline. Making the program the actor in this sentence instead of the direct object.
Tesla’s new Boombox feature will let car owners fart at unsuspecting neighbors:
Tesla’s new holiday update will finally give people the ability to use a new Boombox mode, which can broadcast custom audio on the outside of the car (hence the name). As is common with new Tesla features, Boombox combines real utility with lowbrow humor: owners can use fart and goat sounds in lieu of normal, boring honking sounds car horns usually make.
(Link via Ace of Spades HQ.)
‘Growing Pains’ star Jeremy Miller slams Kirk Cameron for caroling events
If you’re using “star” to describe a supporting child actor in a television series from thirty years ago, perhaps you’re using the wrong word. Also, perhaps, you’re digging pretty deep–with reporting via email and reading tweets–to slam a Christian in or near Hollywood for engaging in Christmas activity.
Holiday season wraps up in a few weeks, Silver Dollar City officials remind guests
Basically, Silver Dollar City wants you to come visit it before it shuts down for the off-season.
Not that it had much of an on-season this year.
UK Weather: Britain braces for 48-hour snow bomb as temperatures set to plunge to -5C.
Maybe bomb cyclones only hit the Ozarks.
I am thankful to live in times and in a society where meterologists use bomb as a metaphor, and we are not so accustomed to the concrete realities of actual bombs exploding around us with enough frequency to see what a ridiculous metaphor that is for weather which is in the range of normal.
Cat’s priceless reaction to first beach trip leaves everyone in stitches
Wait a minute: Upon actually reading the article, I see that the cat did not actually claw people who then required medical attention. Apparently, its owners just took funny pictures of it.
Which is not what I, as the owner of sometime cantankerous cats, got from the headline.