New crashblossom

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri May 3 21:38:38 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

> http://goo.gl/n5xzB
> Utah referee punched by soccer player in coma
>

Why not

Soccer-player-punched referee in coma,

I wonder? This headline-writer is clearly behind the curve. Or should that
be,

"behind-the-curve"?


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