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Date Posted: 12:03:33 07/15/05 Fri GMT-5
Author: DianeG
Author Host/IP: tor58-1-64-128.dialup.sprint-canada.net / 149.99.64.128
Subject: Re: Journalists!
In reply to: Roger 's message, "Journalists!" on 08:05:07 07/15/05 Fri GMT-5

That one should win a booby (or maybe a body) prize! Hell, my Grade 6 English teacher would have red-pencilled it to death and would probably have applied the ruler to the writer.

Thanks for the chuckle.

By the way, this page seemed to be inacceessible for a while earlier in the week.

Roger, it rained here last night: hope you also received some rain.

DianeG>I oicked up the Hamilton Spectator today as I came
>into the office, and read this wonderful paragraph:
>
>"The human remains of a woman found with a man in a
>condominium earlier this week belong to the man's
>sister."
>
>Obviously, the woman was found with a man in a
>condominium earlier this week. She owned some remains,
>some of which were human, and some of which were not,
>but the human remains were the property of the woman,
>and can now, presumably, be returned to her. Or, at
>least, she can assert her property rights.
>
>I can just imagine my journalism prof putting that one
>up in the weekly magic lantern show, where he used to
>display, for criticism, lead sentences written by
>students. The best ever was a snetence of 40 words
>containing no verb.
>
>Surely the Hamilton Spectator reporter could have
>thought a little sbout that one.

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Replies:

Not just Journalists! How about Editors? -- Lori, 15:29:32 07/15/05 Fri GMT-5
- Re: Not just Journalists! How about Editors? -- DianeG, 16:41:20 07/15/05 Fri GMT-5
- Re: Not just Journalists! How about Editors? -- Roger, 21:10:00 07/15/05 Fri GMT-5