Confusing headlines

[Salmoneus]

The AV Club begins a report:

In 2017, months after numerous sexual assault allegations surfaced against Danny Masterson, outspoken Scientology critic (and host of A&E’s Scientology And The Aftermath) Leah Remini theorized that...

Speaking as someone who doesn't know who Danny Masterson is or what his affiliations are, that was some rather misleading syntax!

[Salmoneus]

Also, BBC:

'Timeless' show voted 'greatest ever radio programme'

I, naturally, wondered what this radio show called 'Timeless' was about...

[Salmoneus]

And yet another: a link I saw to a Rolling Stone article bears the incomprehensible headline:

Watch Weezer Tap Finn Wolfhard's Calpurnia for New Take on Me Video

[Linguoboy]

And yet another: a link I saw to a Rolling Stone article bears the incomprehensible headline:

Watch Weezer Tap Finn Wolfhard's Calpurnia for New Take on Me Video

Completely comprehensible to an alt-rock hipster like me (though my internal fifth grader is relishing the ambiguity of "tap").

[Linguoboy]

Injured baby refuels India pellet gun
row (BBC)

[Raphael]

From the introductory section of the Wikipedia article on hot sauce:

Criteria in food grading for chili sauces in the U.S. includes coloration, consistency, character, absence of defects and flavor.

[alynnidalar]

judging by some of the hot sauces I've tried, an absence of flavor is definitely popular

[Linguoboy]

Subtitle from a Chicago Tribune article: 17-year-old cops say shot another faces life term.

[Salmoneus]

ye gods.

[Raphael]

This is NOT a confusing headline - more like a headline indicating the writers might have been confused:

https://twitter.com/MarshallJulius/stat ... 2906556416


For those of you who, for whatever reason, can't read headlines in photos of newspaper pages, the headline says

More: show

"China may be using sea to hide its submarines"

[bbbosborne]

not really a headline, actually a youtube video

Gruesome Murder of Boy, Grandparents Ends in Conviction

[Linguoboy]

Mullah Omar in Afghanistan book claims 'not credible': official (Al-Jazeera)

[Linguoboy]

Florida man makes beer run with gator in hand (AP)

[Pabappa]

Never Trumper John Podhoretz Calls for School Bombing, Deletes Twitter

It was nice while it lasted, but today ... Twitter is gone.

[Salmoneus]

Masterchef 2019: Squid risotto helps seal win in all-female finale

Legitimately had me for a moment.

[Travis B.]

I never realized there were contests on TVs in which seals could be contestants.

[Raphael]

Well, the meal involved squid, so I guess a seal might know something about that.

[Linguoboy]

Marijuana Edibles Driving ER Visits in Colorado, Study Reports (Rolling Stone)

[Hominid]

Identical twins named Valedictorian, Salutatorian at Ohio high school

[chris_notts]

Italy stops UK tourist with Pompeii mosaic tiles

I was wondering for a minute how you stop someone using mosaic tiles...