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muckefuck ([personal profile] muckefuck) wrote2005-08-17 10:16 pm

TERSE LINES FLUMMOX ME

Nothing can make me feel my parser is broken like a news headline. I sometimes wonder if my brain works so differently from that of the target reader that I'm the only who's baffled by journalists' stabs at brevity. Here's tonight's puzzler. Do me a favour and guess what it means before you check your answer at the BBC page where I found it.

Tube death team to brief family

[identity profile] foodpoisoningsf.livejournal.com 2005-08-18 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Context Uber Alles

You would have registered "Loop Killer Cops to Meet Victim's Kin" for example. Tube Death? Here, that's Terri Schiavo.