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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on October 27, 2010, 06:59:36 PM

Title: Another headline from the Billings Gazette....
Post by: Roger Kettle on October 27, 2010, 06:59:36 PM

THIEVES TRIM TAIL HAIR FROM 3 HORSES IN MONTANA.
There is so much to like about this headline. Firstly, it's not what you'd call a great story. Then you have the use of the word "trim". Not "chop", "slash" or "sever", but "trim". Next we have the need to actually quote the number of horse victims involved which is...er...three. In Montana. A state five times the size of Scotland.
Reading the story, it becomes apparent that horsehair can be sold to bridle-makers for good money. This is going to be my next career. I'm off to Montana to trim horse tails.

Title: Re: Another headline from the Billings Gazette....
Post by: Diane CBPFC on October 27, 2010, 07:37:33 PM

Just keep it under 5 horses so it doesn't become a Federal case.

Title: Re: Another headline from the Billings Gazette....
Post by: The Peepmaster on October 27, 2010, 11:54:00 PM

That's got to be right up there with the "Free drink with every haddock" headline.