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[Mark Mandel]

Bad online headline of the day:

    From the LA Times' website
(http://www.latimes.com/news/local/me-studiofirelist2,0,4249633.story):
Other major fires to strike Hollywood studios

    When you click to it in panic, you discover it's a historical
snippet, not a prediction.

(hat-tip to madfilkentist)

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Mark Mandel

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