Confusing headlines

[bradrn]

Two in one day! This one isn’t from a newspaper, but manages to be tremendously confusing all the same:

A portable Common Lisp toolkit for building inspectors

(As one commenter put it, ‘I was excited to learn how building inspectors were using Common Lisp’…)

[Travis B.]

Two in one day! This one isn’t from a newspaper, but manages to be tremendously confusing all the same:

A portable Common Lisp toolkit for building inspectors

(As one commenter put it, ‘I was excited to learn how building inspectors were using Common Lisp’…)

When I first read the text in bold, before I read the text in parens I reacted in much the same fashion.

[Darren]

On an advert - DIY or Do It For Me

Granted I'm not confused about what they mean, but it reads horrendously

[Man in Space]

Courtesy of News Channel 5, WEWS:

'What a tragedy for Cleveland': Firefighters battle historic Tremont church fire

Is the church itself historic or is this a blaze of hitherto unforeseen intensity? (Or are we talking about the vintage section of Tremont?)

[hwhatting]

Courtesy of News Channel 5, WEWS:

'What a tragedy for Cleveland': Firefighters battle historic Tremont church fire

Is the church itself historic or is this a blaze of hitherto unforeseen intensity? (Or are we talking about the vintage section of Tremont?)

And is it a tragedy that the firefighters are battling the poor fire?

[Raphael]

Not a headline - from the Irish Times liveblog of the Irish local election count:

In the Killiney-Shankill electoral area, first time candidate Roland Kennedy a Fórsa trade union organiser and cafe owner and former Cllr Dave O’Keeffe are battling it out for every single vote.

I'm still not sure which of the two is the cafe owner.

[Man in Space]

I'm still not sure which of the two is the cafe owner.

My guess is it’s Kennedy. How I parse this:

In the Killiney-Shankill electoral area, [first time candidate Roland Kennedy[,] a Fórsa trade union organiser and cafe owner][,] and [former Cllr Dave O’Keeffe] are battling it out for every single vote.

[bradrn]

I'm still not sure which of the two is the cafe owner.

My guess is it’s Kennedy. How I parse this:

In the Killiney-Shankill electoral area, [first time candidate Roland Kennedy[,] a Fórsa trade union organiser and cafe owner][,] and [former Cllr Dave O’Keeffe] are battling it out for every single vote.

This was my initial guess too, but you can rebracket the conjunctions:

In the Killiney-Shankill electoral area, [first time candidate Roland Kennedy[,] a Fórsa trade union organiser][,] and [cafe owner and former Cllr Dave O’Keeffe] are battling it out for every single vote.