Sunday, March 29, 2015

Crash blossom test dummy

Looks like we have a frontrunner in the Ill-Placed Crash Blossom of the (still-young) Year competition, thanks to the ever-tasteful Drudge.

The Times's hed -- "Plane Crash Tests Germany's Faith in Its Precision" -- doesn't take you up the garden path: Crash tests (are) cherished notions. Pesky English!

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Thursday, September 06, 2012

Shouldn't that be 'allegedly murders car'?

On the heels of Wednesday's uptick in human-vehicle violence ("Cirencester teenager breaks jaw in alleged attack by kebab van"), the humans strike back:

Girl found alive in France murders car

A four-year-old girl has been found hiding inside a British-registered car in which three bodies were discovered eight hours earlier, French police say.


Think of how close the crash blossom came to being averted. "Twins found alive in France murders car" or "Girl found alive in France murder car" would just be noun piles.

Anyway, if I was the taco truck over by the undergrad library, I wouldn't be using the ATM by myself at 2 in the morning. Thanks, kebab vans.

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