Oktubre 3, 2022

If I were editing the headlines on the front page of The Washington Post, I'd have caught this....

 

ADDED: Given the fish in the headline on the left, the idea that Bolsonaro was a fluke is absurd:

 

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rrsafety ayon kay ...

I would have written that headline just for the halibut.

Terry Resort ayon kay ...

I would demand an apology if I wasn't sure one was already in the works.

Jupiter ayon kay ...

Shouldn't that be "fishingpersons"?

NMObjectivist ayon kay ...

"Weighted fish."
I got hung up on that headline. Didn't know what it was about. Writing good headlines is hard. (Incidentally, I tweet as @HEADLINES_Etc)

Readering ayon kay ...

Maybe, but I'd have thrown it back in.

Mary Beth ayon kay ...

But, did they cry?

Kay ayon kay ...

A light fish the size of a heavy fish.

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

The problem is in the small headline at the right.

Leland ayon kay ...

The problem is in the small headline at the right.

It is a whale of a headline that keeps you anchored, bigger and heavier than the larger headline.

Kay ayon kay ...

What was the problem?

Kay ayon kay ...

Is it that “wasn’t” is a widow?

chickelit ayon kay ...

The WaPo thought Trump was a fluke but they pursued him like Captain Ahab...

Rollo ayon kay ...

Voters thought Biden was a grouper.

Then they found out he was a groper.

And a crappie one at that.

ngtrains ayon kay ...

a fluke is another name for a fish - called a summer flounder

Michelle Dulak Thomson ayon kay ...

Ann,

Can you read that off for those of us who can't read the small print, and/or didn't get to the WaPo early enough?

swierczekml ayon kay ...

That was just a fluke, won't happen again

Bemac ayon kay ...

Not worth carping about.

Leland ayon kay ...

a fluke is another name for a fish

Also, the tail of a whale or part of an anchor that digs into the ground. A fluke isn't Bolsonaro.

Should we discuss the notion that the science of "what is something" is once again a democratic thing rather than a deterministic process using the scientific method?

gilbar ayon kay ...

Jupiter said...
Shouldn't that be "fishingpersons"?

the politically correct term, is fishers

gilbar ayon kay ...

This all seems like a lot to carp about

Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...

Not allowing for the possibility that attempts to cheat is always possible allows more cheating to take place than would otherwise.

We cheat ourselves into believing cheating is rare. How else would Lance Armstrong win all those titles?

Quaestor ayon kay ...

Besides being a kind of fish, and a whale's tail, and the pointy parts of an anchor, and an unlikely event, a fluke is also a member of a group of parasitic trematodes under the phylum Platyhelminthes.

Fluke is also the name of a major manufacturer of signal diagnostic equipment, which is another instance of Althouse synchronicity. Not one hour ago someone asked me to suggest a brand of reliable and accurate diagnostic instruments. I said I know of one but the name escaped me at that moment. Then I looked at this thread and the name FLUKE hit me like a thunderclap. Something strange has been going on between my brain and this blog for years.

Synchronicity aside, it is also strange that such a non-euphonious word should mean so many unrelated things.

Left Bank of the Charles ayon kay ...

WaPo is casting side-by-side headlines like Drudge Report. The fish story has a great Mark Twain aspect to it, a twist on The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. I’m reading on NPR that the big-time fishing contests have instituted lie detector tests.

Wilbur ayon kay ...

In the primary, Marxist Thief Lula out-polled Bolsonaro by 7 million votes. They face off on October 30th.

A huge election for Brazil.

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