January 05, 2006

Adventures in Headline Writing!

This link sent to me by sharp-eyed academic Jim Smith, who asks: "What’s a quabble and why would siblings do it? Is it a new Alabama thing started since I left?"

The nearly indecipherable object of derision--Siblings quabble land man in jail in arson case

The opening paragraph clears up at least a portion of the confusion, but even if the ess were properly positioned, there's still some more work that should have been done to make the headline a bit more readable.

I will say, however, that a theme park named Quabbleland might be kinda interesting.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at January 5, 2006 09:34 AM
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