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Free Magazines Popping Up All Over Japan

Magazines are being distributed free at stores and railway stations in Japan, in response to "the spread of the Internet, which makes young people think that information [is] free."
11:06:39 PM  LINK TO THIS POST  

WORMS HAVE TEETH?

This has to be the ultimate in mixed metaphors:

"All this worry about George W. Bush's 'goings-on' during the Vietnam War is a can of worms that the Republicans tried to crucify Clinton with that now has come back to bite them."

This, and a few other howlers, is courtesy of Nicole at A Capital Idea. She writes:

Careful reads would have saved people from some of these clunkers ... These are the types of errors we should be (and usually are) catching. But they are harder to spot than the poorly conjugated verbs and simple style errors. They take careful reading.

She suggests copy editors keep examples like these around to remind them of things to watch for. It might be a copy idea to staple a copy to the forehead of the offending writers to remind them that a copy editor won't always save them from bad writing.
10:58:03 PM  LINK TO THIS POST  

HEADLINES THAT SAY 'OUCH'

Headline writers pulled out all the puns in covering the death of the HBO show Six Feet Under. Samples:

Six Feet Under To Be Buried This Season — AP

R.I.P. For Six Feet Under — NY Post

Six Feet Under Ready To Expire — CNN.com

HBO Ready To Bury Six Feet Under — Reuters

Six Feet Under Heading For TV's Funeral Parlour — Globeandmail.com

Ball To Put 'Six Feet' Under — Yahoo News

Six Feet Under Buried After Five — Broadcasting & Cable News

SOURCE: VH1 Best Week Ever by way of Fimoculous.
10:38:45 PM  LINK TO THIS POST