That’s using their heads
Once or twice a week I like to post what I refer to as “2-faced Heads,” headlines that can be read more than one way, often to great shock or comic effect. But accidental headlines are not the stock in...
View Article- – it happens
Here’s how the Associated Press reported on a comment President Bush made to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair when he didn’t know a nearby microphone was turned on during the G-8 conference in St....
View ArticleDiss just in
A letter from a reader published in today’s Times Union takes us to task for allowing use of the word “dissed” to appear in the paper. The word is not in the dictionary, huffs the reader, and we dared...
View ArticleIt’s not one of the ’7 words you can’t say on television,’ but …
For years, comic George Carlin has earned a handsome living reciting his list of “7 Words You Can’t Say On Television.” There are more than seven words we won’t use in the Times Union, under any...
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