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Strained pun headline alert
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Also, “refuseniks”
www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...
@thepressbox.bsky.social football announcing cliché: defensive players never step, stumble, or start offsides. They can only “jump offsides,” even if they never in fact leave their feet moving into the neutral zone.
27.10.2025 03:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@thepressbox.bsky.social a very strained pun headline
A rock in a hard place: Frank McNally hunts an elusive ancient monument in Mayo
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
How many “move the chains” submissions have you received so far?
19.10.2025 22:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just in, more from the “Sliding Doors on Boats” department:
“with flying colo(u)rs”
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_fl...
@thepressbox.bsky.social title for the football audio segment, befitting two Gen X not-quite-hipsters who used to live on the LES:
Sonic Booth
Any reporting on other HHS divisions affected by these RIFs?
11.10.2025 23:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Any reporting on other HHS divisions that were also affected?
11.10.2025 23:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sliding doors metaphor: where did “turn a blind eye” come from?
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being There
29.09.2025 12:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The Unbearable Lightness of Being There
29.09.2025 12:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Article in the Irish Times with the headline, Kneecap man beats the rap as case falls on technicality
This is a good strained pun headline in the Saturday print edition of @irishtimes.com
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Didn’t even realize—somehow I shared a combination pull-quote headline rule of three!
25.09.2025 20:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What do we think of the burgeoning (only in journalism) pull-quote headline? And is it really burgeoning, or is it actually inveterate?!
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www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
@thepressbox.bsky.social a headline rule of three designed to get David’s attention
05.09.2025 15:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes. We were just there and can confirm your hypothesis. Further digging would be much valued, though.
28.08.2025 20:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mo Lewis breaks his silence
Breaking a long media silence like he once famously broke that blood vessel
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1. Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
2. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Strained pun headline alert
(only in the print edition)
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www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...
Only in journalism: traduced (and many other, international relations entries)
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www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Westport, Co. Mayo, is calling your name, @bryancurtis.bsky.social
14.08.2025 17:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@johncreedon.bsky.social
11.08.2025 20:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@johncreedon.bsky.social
Hi John, greetings from Tim Creedon and family—Alicia, Elise, and Owen—on holiday here in Clonakilty from Washington, DC. Great to hear you coming in locally from just across Inchydoney Beach!
@freebirdrecords.bsky.social
07.08.2025 23:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Magazines (mostly aircraft)”
Freebird Records, Dublin
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Seasonal strained pun headline
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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/w...
@thepressbox.bsky.social #pivottovideo
02.08.2025 13:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An alliterative headline rule of three
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www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Absurd OIJ alert
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“‘Satanic panic’ … on steroids”
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
