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       #Post#: 25034--------------------------------------------------
       Headline Verbs -- Let's stop "Slamming" People and Bre
       ak Out the Hairbrush
       By: Kat Date: June 28, 2022, 5:44 pm
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       I'm so sick of headlines about how one politician "slammed"
       another. Occasionally, someone gets "roasted" or some other
       violent verb, but they usually get slammed.
       If editors have to use hyperbolic verbs, why not pander to us
       spankos and say X "spanked" Y. I remember in the 1980s, there
       was a headline about Reagan taking one of his advisers or
       cabinet members to the woodshed. (David Stockman, maybe?)
       Anyway, that was the sort of headline I liked. It was so...
       evocative. :D
       Instead of slamming people, let's spank them, take them to the
       woodshed, give them a good old-fashioned whipping, paddle their
       butts, tan their hides, etc. Let's pull their pants down, bare
       their backsides, and apply the board of correction to the seat
       of learning. Sure, most of these politicians' bottoms aren't the
       material of spanko dreams. Nevertheless, the headline could give
       a thrill before we find out who had to bend over and grab his
       ankles.
       Kat
       #Post#: 25035--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Headline Verbs -- Let's stop "Slamming" People and
        Break Out the Hairbrush
       By: David M. Katz Date: June 28, 2022, 7:36 pm
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       Hear, hear!
       #Post#: 25036--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Headline Verbs -- Let's stop "Slamming" People and
        Break Out the Hairbrush
       By: Skip Trace Date: June 28, 2022, 8:09 pm
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       The sports pages (or webpages) are still a reliable source of
       such imagery. Teams continue to get taken to the woodshed, while
       player interviews talk about getting butts beat or whipped.
       Across the pond, both football teams and the football itself are
       frequently "spanked."
       Sometimes it gets more personal, as when a columnist went after
       a young Kyle Busch (NASCAR driver) in 2008: "When I make
       mistakes, certain people have to pay for them," Busch said, "and
       unfortunately today, the 88, they have to pay for it." The
       unfortunate part is that while most of us learned sometime
       between "Green Eggs and Ham" and "The Great Gatsby" that we
       can't always do whatever we want, Busch has yet to figure that
       out. When you're 12, this sort of comment gets you a spanking
       and a one-way trip to your room. But when you're 23, and the
       repercussions of your mistakes put other people's jobs in
       jeopardy, it means you're an ass.
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