We're Through !

We're Through !

We're Through !

Crazy newspaper headline about the English football team in the World Cup today.
Through as in “Finished” ?
Through as in “into the last sixteen”?
Don't ask us.. .. .. .. We only print the thing !

Any more good headlines anyone?

Neither is correct until Italy play.

Perhaps an echo of the mantra of the old-fashioned switchboard operator about to disconnect the customer's call: "Putting you through now..."

Not a headline but a Netflix ad on TV claims that:

You can watch all episodes of "Orange Is the New Black" instantly.

I didn't know that they had developed direct-to-the-brain video. Even when they do it will probably take a few seconds for the download. Come to think of it, is anything 'instant'?

>4 darrow: Since it is all of them instantly, it also seems then to be all of them at once. How confusing!

Well, after tonight, England is done.

>4 darrow: "Orange Is the New Black"

Is that a football reference as well?

>4 darrow: No, it's an American TV show about an upper middle class woman sentenced to a federal prison (where they wear orange prison wear, get it?).

>8 jjwilson61: Who did she play for?

Love this crazy headline from today's BBC news website:

"Medieval boat remains discovered."

>10 Novak: Well it's no good if you lose it again. :(

>10 Novak:, >11 bernsad:
It's a concept you could easily broaden to any story for slow news days: the traditional "Canine remains bitten by human", or the more exotic "David Cameron remains elected".

>10 Novak: hehe someone not understanding that 'remains' refers only to bodies.

>12 thorold: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

>14 jjwilson61: Ohhh, poor fellow.

"David Cameron remains elected".

Thanks to all for a good laugh on that one. “Does the team think” electing a leader (PM or President) who is already dead would make any difference to government?
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>16 Novak:
It's tempting to say "no", but sadly it's probably not true. (If you wanted to be malicious, you could argue that the UK tried the experiment in 1951, and it wasn't a great success...)

>17 thorold: That is the kind of statement up with which I will not put.. .. :)

>14 jjwilson61:

Surely 'still dead' is a tautology? If the subject were mobile rather than still then I think you'd need an ambulance rather than a hearse ...

In Franco's case, though, I think I would continue to choose the hearse, and make up a good story at the crematorium.

>19 CliffordDorset: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalissimo_Francisco_Franco_is_still_dead

>20 jjwilson61: Thanks for that clip. It was an episode we in the UK missed out on. I have often seen reference to it and not quite understood the meaning.

Here is a gem from the BBC website today:

David Cameron will set out plans to counter the threat posed by Islamic State militants to MPs on Monday.

>22 Novak:
Monday has always been one of my least-favourite days...

>23 thorold: Yes, but you are a bit militant all week .. .. .. So:

Why would the Islamic State militants choose Monday to threaten MPs?

>24 Novak:
Never underestimate the influence of Bob Geldof.