iamspenagain

The first sentence of a local news article I read today reads as follows: "While they still don’t know how she died, authorities say the 15-year-old girl who was found dead outside her apartment early Sunday was not killed."

WHAT THE FUCK! YES, SHE WAS MOST CERTAINLY KILLED, AS SHE IS NOW DEAD! What the fuck kind of idiot reporter would even think about writing that kind of lede, and what the fuck kind of editor would let that shit slide? Further, why the blue fuck does it piss me off so much?

Maybe it's actually viral marketing for the next Twilight movie or some shit.

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Bean

I'm kinda wonderin that myself? Dude, it's bad grammar.. nothing more.

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iamspenagain

I'm kind of a grammar Nazi, but it's more than bad grammar, it's bad reporting. How any self-respecting journalist wrote this crap is beyond me; how it got past an editor is beyond comprehension.

I dunno. I'm a bit of a writer, so I have pet peeves.

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Brikar

I'll admit, it's iffy... but 'killed' tends to imply that she died of something other than a natural cause. It's stupid, I know, but I've come across this before.

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Sam Cogley

I was thinking the same thing. It's perfectly valid to say that someone was killed by a disease or natural bodily process (such as a heart defect), but it's more colloquially used to mean some sort of outside, possibly violent, force.

Cymro

If you squeeze my lizard
I´ll put my snake on you
I´m a romantic adventure
And I´m a reptile too

But it don´t make no difference
´cos I ain´t gonna be, easy, easy
the only time I´m gonna be easy´s when I´m

Killed by Death

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"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Daxie

Ok.... you people have waaaaay too much time on your hands.

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Brikar

That's what happens when you surf the web with a real computer...

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"A million monkeys typing until the end of time will produce the complete works of William Shakespeare. Ten thousand monkeys typing for ten thousand years will write a Hemingway. Ten monkeys typing over Columbus Day weekend will give you a Dan Brown."

Cymro

I think I'd quote semi-relevant heavy metal lyrics regardless of the amount of time I had on my hands.

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Bean

Ladies and gentleman, we have our "Zinger of the week"!


Epic win.

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"I haven't faced death. I've cheated death. I've tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing."

--James T. Kirk