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Perhaps the most tortured and obscure opening paragraph I've ever read in a newspaper: Guided not just by the hands of operator Tom Crossmon, but also by the p
by miles 10y ago
Perhaps the most tortured and obscure opening paragraph I've ever read in a newspaper:
Guided not just by the hands of operator Tom Crossmon, but also by the past efforts of an extended network of divers and the collective memory of a community, the remotely-operated vehicle descended into the depths of Lake Superior.
- taspeotis 10y agoThere are some pretty bad ones here [1]. And also a few gems [2]. > One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall University, in West Virginia, and was struck by what seemed to him—under the influence of powerful inebriants, not least among them the clear ether of youth itself—to be an excellent idea: he would shove a bottle rocket up his ass and blast it into the sweet night air. And perhaps it was an excellent idea. What was not an excellent idea, however, was to misjudge the relative tightness of a 20-year-old sphincter and the propulsive reliability of a 20-cent bottle rocket. What followed ignition was not the bright report of a successful blastoff, but the muffled thud of fire in the hole. -- Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic [1] http://www.poynter.org/2014/and-now-for-some-really-bad-ledes/248149/ http://www.poynter.org/2014/and-now-for-some-really-bad-lede... [2] http://www.poynter.org/2014/gallery-of-good-ledes-recommendation-edition/248323/ http://www.poynter.org/2014/gallery-of-good-ledes-recommenda...
- kwhitefoot 10y agoHow is it obscure? It's easy to read and vividly says what it means.