Badly Phrased Headline Theatre

[camwyn]

Naked bullfight protest brings halt to Madrid

Okay, show of hands. How many people saw that and assumed it was supposed to be an article about people protesting bullfights where participants other than the bull were naked?

Comments

[condotierre.livejournal.com]

Someone needs to reverse-trepan the writer one up the skull with Strunk and White.

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

I was imagining fierce battles between naked bullfighters and naked picketters.

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

Also that some musician called 'halt' came to Madrid for it.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Actually, my first thought was "they're getting naked to protest bullfighting."

I guess I'm learning to compensate.

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

*raises hand*

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

*raises hand*

[janewt.livejournal.com]

*hand*

no hands

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

I assumed the protesting people were naked, and the interpretation you proposed didn't occur to me at all until I'd read your comment 1.5 times. Then again, I'm just back from CA by red-eye and even with a couple of hours' nap* my mind isn't fully functional.

*after the flight - I don't sleep well when little ones are screeching at random intervals, something beeps every time the seat belt signs turn on or off, and my neighbor keeps pulling up his window shade and letting the sun in. G, of course, slept through well enough that he didn't remember these interruptions (although several times he did react with the seated equivalent of rolling over).