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Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sun Jun 1 18:11:21 UTC 2008


At 1:56 PM -0400 6/1/08, Mark Mandel wrote:
>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)
>
And that it's about actual conflagrations, not studio heads who were
(or will be) dumped.

LH

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