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What is up with BBC and their poorly constructed headlines? In what manner was the dog using the bacon? As an art medium? To shim a wobbly table? Because he ra

What is up with BBC and their poorly constructed headlines? In what manner was the dog using the bacon? As an art medium? To shim a wobbly table? Because he ran out of pancetta?

a3n 6y ago
What if they used the American term, missing weiner dog? Or just "missing dog?" As an American I had trouble with it. Even when I looked at the picture of their two dogs I was thinking "But which one is the sausage dog." Then the bacon snapped, as it were.
- Kaibeezy 6y ago
  BBC: Penny drops for American bacon sausage dog HN commenter
mydongle 6y ago
It's pretty clear to me though. A missing sausage, was found by a dog using bacon.
- Kaibeezy 6y ago
  Sort of like dowsing? I actually had a guy from the water company doing that in my driveway last week looking for the pipe. BBC: “Missing pipe found using sticks.”
  - a3n 6y ago
    What was the missing pipe using the sticks for?
    - Kaibeezy 6y ago
      Yes!
robocat 6y ago
I think it is quite British to make headlines that have some wit or double meaning to them. I think headline writers also try and get one past their editors, it’s a form of staff entertainment. Dog headlines are a sub-genre (Man bites dog).