A crash blossom for the ages

[Joel S. Berson]

Dan, you left out the "side".

(Perhaps I could make "side" Latin for "[is] currently in" [Sunder-land].)

At 4/25/2014 12:16 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

>I have a hard time misreading it, too.
>
>(The) stuttering man (that the) city held by (his) bottom (has been
>identified as) Sunderland.
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>DanG
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>On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > Unfortunately I already knew about this, and so
> > have great difficulty in misreading it.
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> > "A stuttering man that the city held by his [or
> > its?] bottom side ..." -- but "Sunderland" is not verbal.
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > At 4/25/2014 11:19 AM, Mailbox wrote:
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> > >Dare you to decipher this one, from Reuters (London) on April 16:
> > >"Stuttering Man City Held by Bottom Side Sunderland"
> > >
> > >Translation: "Man City" is Manchester City, a
> > >football (soccer) team (or "side"). Sunderland
> > >is another; it plays in the lowest league ("bottom").
> > >
> > >
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> http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/04/16/soccer-england-idUKL6N0N852J20140416ws/
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