Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Why I flunked out of reporter school

The AP wire reports:

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Three unarmed Polish researchers stranded on a remote Arctic island were rescued by helicopters as polar bears were closing in on them, officials said Wednesday.

I would have written it this way:

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Polar bear study aiming to answer the question "Are Polish researchers tasty?" ends inconclusively.

5 comments:

Booty J Patrol said...

I imagine they taste like a Polish sausage.

jiggs said...

One word: borsch

Friends of McDougal said...

I might have commented on the fate of their arms. The lead worked for me, because it left me wondering if the bears ate the arms, or if the researchers just happened to be armless when they arrived. What the fuck are the odds of that, I wonder? A bunch of dudes all interested in studying polar bears -- and they happen to all not have arms.

Too bad they weren't American, then they would have had the Constitutional right to bear arms.

Would have been a nice trade, I should think.

What? Pun? Who? No. I wouldn't. Fuck. I just did.

slappy said...

I believe the proper adjective for that would be three de-armed Polish researchers.

jiggs said...

In French it would be "sans-arms".