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No Mickey! There's a curse! Credit: AFP/Getty Images

I don't know if I need to say anything about this at all.

All Cartoonists Seem To Be Cursed Forever Globally

Where to begin? I'm not even going to go into the article.

a) ALL of them?

b) FOREVER?

c) GLOBALLY?

I mean, if I was a cartoonist right now I'd think my luck really had run out once and for all. Nowhere to go, no hope of things getting better before the very end of infinity. Just utter doom.

And yet.

All Cartoonists SEEM To Be Cursed Forever Globally.

Do you see that? The "seem"? I mean, the whole thing suddenly collapses around itself in a heap. They might "seem" to be cursed for ever globally, but actually they're not! It's all a mirage!

Oh, Pravda, how you keep us on our toes.

 

 

 

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1 comment from readers

Regal
30 October 2009 at 20:01

This must truly be the pinnacle of journalistic craftsmanship.

I had to give it a moment for the majesty of this news hed to sink in.

NS should take a page out of the ol' Pravda and utilize a similar editorial style.

Whatever you write about, imagine the most whimsical implications of the story and compress that into a headline.

Preferably extend the sentence to amplify it and leave the reader wondering why it didn't end two words ago.

The ensuing wholly reasonable article must then not attempt to live up to the implications of the header but rather arrive at no conclusion in particular and leave you wondering what just happened.

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