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bob vernon
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Good grammar has went

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Here's a real example of headline writing.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/l ... f-12106912
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Bsuds
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Well at least everything is spelled correctly.

I hope she didn't get hurt falling from the helicopter.
My Wife asked me if I knew what her favorite flower was?
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dirtybiker
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Maybe the headline was scribed by the stunned woman whose home
was involved.

Time to throw cows over the fence, some hay.
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CapitalB
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I mean its kind of a tabloid site.
So much of the violent push-back on everything progressive and reformist comes down to: I can see the future, and in this future I am not the centre of the universe and master of all that I survey, therefore this future must be resisted at all costs.
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