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Every joker needs rules to breakIn the New York Times, a droll analysis of another spate of proclamations that irony has died. The headline - "Irony Is Dead. Again. Yeah, Right" - is sarcastic. As for the tone of the article itself, I reckon it would best be described as sardonic: "A Nexis search found that the ... |
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If Nobody Got Told"The biggest fuck-up with killing people, if nobody, if nobody got told then nobody would've slipped information," he added. I was reading this story of a Calgary murder trial in Toronto's Globe and Mail and I was surprised by the above quote. I'm not used to seeing "fuck-up"... |
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eBay Nutcase of the Week: Anyone paying $100 for one of yesterday's Barack Obama-themed newspapersYesterday's American newspapers, all of which carried various combinations of the words "Obama" and "wins" and "change" on their covers, are selling on eBay for vast sums today thanks to the whole crazed level of excitement surrounding the election of America's first... |
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Newspapers sell out in ChicagoThe American newspapers have been a great disappointment today - there aren't anywhere near enough of them.Use any coin combination you like, they're all sold out As an obsessive hoarder of historic newspapers, I should have known that getting up at 11am on such a day would be too late... |
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Trial of Fort Dix Conspirators BeginsRole of Informants Will also Be on Trial In early May 2007, American newspapers reported the startling news that six men had been arrested for conspiring to kill soldiers at Fort... ... |
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Google Launches Newspaper Digitization ProjectFrom the SEL article by Chris Sherman: Google, in partnership with a number of North American newspapers, ProQuest and Heritage, has begun digitizing printed newspapers, making them both searchable and browsable exactly as they appeared in print, including photographs, headlines, articles and adv... |


