crash blossom

[Wilson Gray]

 A crash blossom?

"Like Michael Dell, Mr. Belousov started a computer-assembly business
in Russia while he was still in college."


Still in college in Texas? Or is it that Mr. Dell started a business in Russia?

-Wilson


On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Mark Mandel<thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> A nice name. This is a subclass of what Theodore Bernstein called "two-faced
> heads".
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> m a m
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> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Chris Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:
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>> A post on the Testy Copy Editors forum led to a new term that's being
>> suggested for a garden-path afflicted infelicitous newspaper headline:
>> "crash blossom". This comes from the example posted in the thread
>> ("Violinist linked to JAL crash blossoms").
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>> I got this first on Facebook from John McIntyre, and blogged it before
>> I noted that he also posted this to his own blog.
>>
>> Forum thread: :
>> http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11134
>> John McIntyre's post:
>> http://johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/2009/08/now-we-have-term-for-it.html
>> My blog post: http://chryss.eu/?p=182
>>
>> I like it.
>>
>> Chris Waigl
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