"Cheerleader Creamed by Players at Game"

Bicoastal

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Wed Oct-31-07 02:48 AM
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"Cheerleader Creamed by Players at Game"

The title of a video headline currently posted on CNN.com.

Is this another case of newswriters being completely oblivious to double entendre, or do I just have a dirty mind? :evilgrin:

BTW: here's the footage (from another news source) if you want to see it. Don't worry, it's perfectly G-rated stuff.

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krispos42

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Wed Oct-31-07 02:58 AM
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1. G-rated

:-(

And if you have a dirty mind, then so do I!!!
:evilgrin:

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Heidi

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:07 AM
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2. I'm no cheerleader, but that's happened to me more than once.

Word to the wise: a zoom lens is not the ideal means of viewing a football game from the sidelines. x(

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Oeditpus Rex

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:14 AM
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6. I almost got pulverized once

by a receiver and a defensive back. They were coming right at me, as was the ball, and I kept racking back, back, back...

About half a second after I fired the shutter, I felt the breeze as they blew past me on either side.

The photo was a keeper: It froze the ball in the receiver's hands, right in front of his face. Looked like his head had turned into a football and he was holding it on. :D

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Heidi

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:19 AM
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9. I have absolutely no nostalgic feelings

Edited on Wed Oct-31-07 03:28 AM by Heidi

for my early reporter days. I have had the wind knocked out of me and my camera broken at football games, been struck by a softball and had my glasses broken by a volleyball. :scared:

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Oeditpus Rex

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:26 AM
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11. Nothin' like that ever happened to me

I'm such a slacker. :(

Once, though, after a baseball game, I dropped my 300 f/2.8 lens, like this one:

Thank dog all that broke was the filter. :scared:

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Heidi

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:29 AM
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13. Editors generally show more sympathy for broken equipment

than injured reporters, I've found. :cry:

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Oeditpus Rex

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:33 AM
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15. I woulda been screwn either way

It was my own camera gear. :(

The one time I actually got injured on a newspaper job (besides inhaling smoke at fires) was in college, when I was cropping a photo — in the days when that was done with an X-Acto knife.

You can guess what happened.

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bridgit

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:09 AM
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3. sure, whatever, but can she bake cookies?

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Oeditpus Rex

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:09 AM
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4. What makes you think headline writers

don't like a bit of double entendre now and then?

Here's one I wrote and was quite proud of. :)

http://www.freelancenews.com/news/contentview.asp?c=6426

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Heidi

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:10 AM
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5. :thumbsup:

:rofl:

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Oeditpus Rex

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:18 AM
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8. Thangew, thangew

It was just too good to resist. :)

One morning, I needed a six-inch filler for A2. I was scrolling through the AP national folder and saw a story on Sen. Jesse Helms' surgery to replace a heart valve. They'd used a valve from a pig (pigs' hearts are quite similar to humans', apparently), and it was the second such surgery Helms had had.

My hed was something like "Helms gets new heart valve from another pig." :D

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Heidi

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:21 AM
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10. Oh, dear!

Edited on Wed Oct-31-07 03:22 AM by Heidi

VERY good.

One of my own favorites, after the stock market took a dive on the news of Boris Yeltsin's "illness" (which was widely believed to have been caused by long-term consumption of large quantities of vodka):

Stocks stumble on Yeltsin 'illness'

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Oeditpus Rex

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:30 AM
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14. Nice!

Y'got a two-fer. :thumbsup:

Oh — ever screw up a hed? There's a place near here called Casa de Fruta where a lot of events are held, such as the annual Renaissance Faire. One day we had an A1 story about something there, and I spelled it "Fruita." :crazy:

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Heidi

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:34 AM
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16. Do you think I'd ADMIT it if I had?

:rofl:

Yes, of course I've had some horribly embarrassing blunders. My favorite was, back in the old paste-up days, running a three-col. photo of the Chief Deputy Sheriff receiving Operation Santa Claus contribution checks from four city leaders right above a three-col district court article with the headline, "Five arraigned in district court." :blush: but also :rofl:

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Oeditpus Rex

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:40 AM
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17. Did you have a break line between the cutline and the hed?

No problem. :D

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Heidi

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:42 AM
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18. Nope.

It was the sort of egregious design error that goes unnoticed until someone calls to complain. :blush:

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Oeditpus Rex

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:49 AM
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19. I used to rationalize stuff that way

"Hey, there was a two-point break line between 'em! If people don't know that means 'These don't go together,' well, they're just stupid."

But, yeah — people do call. Oh, do people call. :scared:

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Heidi

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:52 AM
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20. Phone call from the chief deputy sheriff about that photo/story combo.

Edited on Wed Oct-31-07 03:53 AM by Heidi

"Yeah, Heidi, it's Gary."

"Hey, Gary. How ya doin'?"

"Not too great, but they're havin' a helluvalotta fun over at the courthouse."

"Really? What's up?"

"What's up is page 5 of this morning's paper. The gals over at the courthouse been razzin' me all mornin' about my so-called arraignment."

:cry: :cry:

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Oeditpus Rex

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Wed Oct-31-07 04:03 AM
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21. Well, at least

he didn't demand a "retraction."

:hug:

Reminds me of an old British joke. The local tab ran a story about the Lord Mayor having a mistress, and he demanded they run a retraction. So the next day they went with:

There is nothing between the Lord Mayor and his secretary

He called again and said this wasn't good enough, that it was like "The Lord Mayor has stopped beating his wife." So the editor shrugged, and the next day this appeared:

Not even a sheet

:D

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Heidi

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Wed Oct-31-07 04:07 AM
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22. Outstanding,

and a reminder that it's unwise to try to bully a person who buys ink by the barrel. :P

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bridgit

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:28 AM
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12. "Cheerleaders Spread Eagle For American Pass Time!!"

But only make 'real' headlines when they get knocked over by people on their way to gah-zillion $ contracts for playing 'sports' that kids play on vacant lots for free :rofl:

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piesRsquare

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Wed Oct-31-07 03:17 AM
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7. Hey! That's my alma mater!

Edited on Wed Oct-31-07 03:19 AM by piesRsquare

USC (University of Southern California)!

Go Trojans!

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NewJeffCT

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Wed Oct-31-07 07:21 AM
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23. I've seen several double entendre headlines over the years

The only one I can recall off the top of my head is a sports headlines involving the Buffalo Sabres hockey team and a player they had at the time whose last name was Pecka...

It was something like "Sabres' Pecka comes up big" or somethign like that.

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