Cody ([info]codeman38) wrote,
@ 2008-10-28 13:45:00
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Current mood: amused

Garden path sentence of the day

First of all, if you're not familiar with what a garden path sentence is, go read the Wikipedia article on them.

Now that that's out of the way... this was an actual headline in today's issue of USA Today (though interestingly, it was reworded in the web version), of which I've reproduced the spacing exactly as it appeared in the paper:

Obama's ad
buys dwarf
TV presence
of McCain

I had to read that two or three times before I realized it had nothing to do with little people starring in Obama ads.


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[info]starwild
2008-10-28 06:34 pm UTC (link)
I had to read it three times. Wow, that's a bad headline.

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[info]rainbow_goddess
2008-10-28 07:19 pm UTC (link)
That should be submitted to [info]cranky_editors.

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[info]codeman38
2008-10-28 07:57 pm UTC (link)
Joined and posted. ^_^

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[info]ladyshrew
2008-10-28 08:25 pm UTC (link)
. . .

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[info]yonjuunana
2008-10-28 09:27 pm UTC (link)
Hahahaha, that's great! It took me several tries to figure it out, as well...

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