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My Local Newspaper has done it again . . .

Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:02 pm
by AdoAnnie
If you notice my signature quote and its interesting turn of a phrase, it is a direct quote from my local newspaper. Yesterday they did it again, turned a reasonable phrase into something quite silly.

Quote, "Police chased a white pickup for 90 minutes Friday through highways, including Highway 288 in Pearland, rural roads and a golf course until the driver turned into a creek . . ."

I laughed till I had to wipe tears out of my eyes. I suppose if the driver became a small body of flowing water then he would be difficult to catch or arrest. :roll: :wink:

Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:15 pm
by skinem
We must read the same paper! :)
Our local paper is a weekly and they need some "edittorial" help...

Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:23 pm
by Bailey
I think I really should start getting our daily page, I'm sure our small town paper has many such turns-of-phrase.

mark

Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:24 pm
by gailr
Nice one, Annie!

Does your community have a police chaplain who could help turn him back?
-gailr

Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:42 pm
by AdoAnnie
OMG! What a great idea!

The kids were playing D&D last night and turned a cleric into a double hit weapon to take out the evil mage. The cleric had been hit with a debilitating spell by the mage and could barely move out of the way of the next hit so my daughter, who has this razor sharp wit says, 'Why don't we just throw the cleric at the mage?' Everyone at the table stopped still, looked at each other, busted out laughing and then began working out the logistics. The paladin, whose turn it was next, drank a potion of true strike while the cleric mumbled his divine spell of 'flame on.' The living room was a riot with laughter, suggestions, rolling for percentage and near falling on the floor hysterics. The evil mage never knew what hit him. The paladin rolled a natural twenty to crit and an 18 to confirm, once again causing squeals and gibberish glee around the table.

If a paladin can turn a cleric into a double strike weapon of opportunity I would guess that a chaplain could turn a creek into a stupid criminal. I just wonder what he would have to roll for that.

Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:24 pm
by Stargzer
I think I'll resist the magician joke here . . .

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:43 pm
by skinem
Oh, don't! Give in to the dark side...

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:48 pm
by Perry
until the driver turned into a creek . .
Well he couldn't just turn into a river. One has to start off small, and work one's way up.

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:12 pm
by Palewriter
until the driver turned into a creek . .
Well he couldn't just turn into a river. One has to start off small, and work one's way up.
Perhaps he did it for the rill of it all.

-- PW

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:23 pm
by skinem
Well he couldn't just turn into a river. One has to start off small, and work one's way up.
No, you wouldn't want to do that rapidly at all.

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:58 am
by gailr
Don't tell me y'all are going to spring a flood of dam puns on this thread, too...

-gailr

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:31 am
by Perry
Just a trickle. We wouldn't want to babble, like some bodies of water. You woudln't brook that. 8)

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:02 am
by skinem
Don't tell me y'all are going to spring a flood of dam puns on this thread, too...

-gailr
You can bank on it!

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:31 am
by Bailey
I don't know what kind of a crik we're streaming up, but watercourse it's goin' to happen again.

mark

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:46 am
by AdoAnnie
A backward poet writes inverse
I actually had to look at that for a few seconds before my brain went into thinking mode. It must be waterlogged. :wink: