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I am confused about the title. What is "Area"?
by dfc 12y ago
I am confused about the title. What is "Area"?
- chetanahuja 12y agoIt's a riff on a common type of onion headline: e.g: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-experimented-with-sex-back-in-college,37016/ http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-experimented-with-... (which itself, is a takeoff on thousands of "Area man/woman does X" type headlines in local newspapers everywhere.)
- dfc 12y agoThanks. HN Reader Lament^s ^That Authors Don't Follow Basic Rules of Grammar
- vinceguidry 12y agoIt looks like a riff off of a common Onion news article headline pattern. Looking at their homepage now, I see these: "Area Man Experimented With Sex Back In College" "Lunch Barely Misses Area Man's Vital Organs" "Area Facebook User Incredibly Stupid"
- rsl7 12y agothe "area man" on the onion is a satire of local news, the kind of thing you'd see in a small township newspaper
- walshemj 12y agoApparently taken from real life allegedly one vary parochial Scottish news paper reported the sinking of the titanic as "North-east man lost at sea" And they didn't mean north east Scotland it was an even smaller area.