Comments on: Same story, different headlines: a great example http://chimprefuge.com/2012/08/28/same-story-different-headlines-a-great-example/ A variegated compendium of bonobo scat. Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:50:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jim http://chimprefuge.com/2012/08/28/same-story-different-headlines-a-great-example/#comment-12509 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:35:52 +0000 http://chimprefuge.com/?p=4639#comment-12509 “There probably would have been no Olympic or World records set earlier this month in London had Usain Bolt and David Rudisha had had stubborn Christians wrapped around their legs during the finals of their respective events.”

Very true, but it would have been entertaining to watch. I’d have preferred they do it on the Steeplechase, though.

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http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/284300.html

This is by way of returning the favor you lent me by using the word Buncombe one day.

As for this, ‘As if the readership of these sites doesn’t already carry sufficient animus toward the president.’ – I don’t think the ‘readership’ of such sites actually reads them. I expect they have the pages read aloud to them, possibly by text-to-speech plugins.

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