३ ऑक्टोबर, २०२२

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:

 

२४ टिप्पण्या:

rrsafety म्हणाले...

I would have written that headline just for the halibut.

Terry Resort म्हणाले...

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

Jupiter म्हणाले...

Shouldn't that be "fishingpersons"?

NMObjectivist म्हणाले...

"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 म्हणाले...

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

Mary Beth म्हणाले...

But, did they cry?

Kay म्हणाले...

A light fish the size of a heavy fish.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

The problem is in the small headline at the right.

Leland म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

What was the problem?

Kay म्हणाले...

Is it that “wasn’t” is a widow?

chickelit म्हणाले...

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

Rollo म्हणाले...

Voters thought Biden was a grouper.

Then they found out he was a groper.

And a crappie one at that.

ngtrains म्हणाले...

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

Michelle Dulak Thomson म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

That was just a fluke, won't happen again

Bemac म्हणाले...

Not worth carping about.

Leland म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

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

the politically correct term, is fishers

gilbar म्हणाले...

This all seems like a lot to carp about

Lem the artificially intelligent म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

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

A huge election for Brazil.