You can't make this stuff up.

[MrPixel]

Two headlines from today's local news:

Road Rage Incident Ends with Man Getting Run Over and Stripped of His Pants​

and

Same Pig Blamed on Two Wrecks​

The wonders of living in the exurbs.

 

[OddLove]

It's crazy you say 'exurbs' cause when I read those head lines it doesn't sound like middle/upper class to me.

It kind of sounds like one of those towns that got left behind economically when the freeways were built and the highway a few miles off your town stopped getting used by truck diving companies, and now it just has one lonely gas station down the road, a small post office ran by the same lady for forty years, and a bar that has one uneven pool table and crooked pool sticks, and the mayor is also one of two volunteer fight fighters, as well as the sheriff and animal control guy.

Or maybe one of those places that got hit hard when mining dried up, and logging companies moved on, so now it's just a big flat area with houses spread far and wide as everything else developed into farmland, and every spring and fall the liquid cow dung gets shot out the industrial sprinklers, but everyone living their forgot what not smelling cow dung smells like, so when they got to the city they just think the city smells weird.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Same Pig Blamed on Two Wrecks​

Blamed for? I don't see how two wrecks could create a pig.

--Annie

 

[NuclearFairy]

every spring and fall the liquid cow dung gets shot out the industrial sprinklers, but everyone living their forgot what not smelling cow dung smells like,

Cow dung, fancy. Usually it's just pig shit, and everyone knows it smells god awful. On the other hand, we only have to deal with it getting sprayed in the spring.

 

[MrPixel]

@OddLove , you sort of nailed it. Our town's not that small... well... maybe... these events were from the next town over, which is a little closer to your profile. And we're technically an exurb 'cause there are fair number of folks who commute the 1-1/2 hours to jobs in the big city.

Blamed for? I don't see how two wrecks could create a pig.

Small town news. Right after we moved here, my wife went to work for the local paper after 10+ years of publishing academic books. Fired after three weeks, for taking the time to proofread copy. That tell you anything?

 

[TheLobster]

Fired at three weeks, on taking the time for proofread copy.

{Fixed to conform with said paper's editorial guidelines).

 

[MrPixel]

I just realized there was another recent headline that fit the pattern:

Hunter Airlifted to Regional Hospital After Shooting Self in Foot​

So much fun. We do our best to keep clear of these idiots.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Same Pig Blamed on Two Wrecks​

There's a spitroasting reference somewhere in this title.

 

[Actingup]

Australia's Northern Territory News are rather proud of their sleazy headlines. I have to admit that 'Why I stuck a cracker up my clacker' was indeed a work of genius. Cracker night (fireworks night) is not a night for the faint hearted in Darwin.


https://www.ntnews.com.au/lifestyle...e/news-story/af14fd549c895674a51868919b02c7e1

 

[TheLobster]

Australia's Northern Territory News are rather proud of their sleazy headlines. I have to admit that 'Why I stuck a cracker up my clacker' was indeed a work of genius. Cracker night (fireworks night) is not a night for the faint hearted in Darwin.

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It seems very appropriate that such a headline would come from a town named after the discoverer of evolution through natural selection.

 

[Trionyx]

Hence the Darwin Awards. ( look it up…)

 

[TheWritingGroup]

It seems very appropriate that such a headline would come from a town named after the discoverer of evolution through natural selection.

Darwin was also the biologist who first described sexual selection as a mechanism of evolution.

--Annie

 

[Britva415]

Blamed for? I don't see how two wrecks could create a pig.

--Annie

I wonder if this is one of those things like "on accident" (instead of by-accident) or "try and" (instead of try-to).

Or "don't do that to him and I."

Weird sounding and ungrammatical seeming to people from other backgrounds, but nOt-WrOnG because linguistic proscriptivism sucks.

 

[Britva415]

Australia's Northern Territory News are rather proud of their sleazy headlines. I have to admit that 'Why I stuck a cracker up my clacker' was indeed a work of genius. Cracker night (fireworks night) is not a night for the faint hearted in Darwin.

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"Clacker" sounds like a word made up just for the rhyming potential - and family-friendly necessity - in this specific headline.

Is it really bogan slang for anything?

 

[Britva415]

"Clacker" sounds like a word made up just for the rhyming potential - and family-friendly necessity - in this specific headline.

Is it really bogan slang for anything?

lol, I looked it up

seems like basically it's "cloaca" like only an Aussie can pronounce it

 

[LaotianLass]

Two headlines from today's local news:

Road Rage Incident Ends with Man Getting Run Over and Stripped of His Pants​

and

Same Pig Blamed on Two Wrecks​

The wonders of living in the exurbs.

That pig should be sharing...not hogging all the wrecks to himself.

 

[TheLobster]

I wonder if this is one of those things like "on accident" (instead of by-accident) or "try and" (instead of try-to).

What would be a plausible pathway for this (d)evolution? “try and” has one (“trying to” -> “tryina” -> “try and”), and “on accident” could maybe be explained by shoddy pronunciation that mixed two short prepositions, but “blamed on” seems like a straight up confusion of “blame for” and “put the blame on”, i.e., nothing more than an error.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

 

[KittyOfSteele]

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I've heard of similar cases going around in one specific area around this side of the world for years. Car thieves ransoming people's cars to their own victims, and when the victim pays to get the car back, the car usually has its attitude problems fixed, or gets a full tank, or an oil change, or a car wash. There have been people who have been mugged, and some muggers actually give back to their victims some cash so they can pay a cab to go home, or even give you a better phone during the rise of the smartphone since they were looking for smartphones.

Sounds like a joke, but all I can tell you is this: ¡NUNCA OCURRIÓ EN CANADÁ! If they knew any English, they wouldn't be robbing in the first place, let alone French!

 

[ElectricBlue]

"Clacker" sounds like a word made up just for the rhyming potential - and family-friendly necessity - in this specific headline.

Is it really bogan slang for anything?

Yes. For men it's their asshole, for women, their vagina. Here in Oz, we cater for all.

 

[Britva415]

What would be a plausible pathway for this (d)evolution? “try and” has one (“trying to” -> “tryina” -> “try and”), and “on accident” could maybe be explained by shoddy pronunciation that mixed two short prepositions, but “blamed on” seems like a straight up confusion of “blame for” and “put the blame on”, i.e., nothing more than an error.

Honestly not sure pathways matter. That's too much analysis if one is going to simply accept that people talk the way people talk instead of lifting a finger to opine on whether it's correct or not.

 

[Britva415]

Yes. For men it's their asshole, for women, their vagina

Cloaca, right!

 

[Trionyx]

Hence the Darwin Awards. ( look it up…)

Famous last words of a Darwin Award winner…”Here, hold my beer.”

 

[HordHolm]

These are good (esp. that Aussie one), but they're no:

Gordon Ramsey's dwarf porn double found dead in a badger set in Wales

 

[Kumquatqueen]

What would be a plausible pathway for this (d)evolution? “try and” has one (“trying to” -> “tryina” -> “try and”), and “on accident” could maybe be explained by shoddy pronunciation that mixed two short prepositions, but “blamed on” seems like a straight up confusion of “blame for” and “put the blame on”, i.e., nothing more than an error.

On accident is a parallel to 'on purpose'. It makes sense to use the same preposition for both.

'Try and' is simply a verb and then a conjunction. Try. And see. It's just omitting the preposition/split part of the verb that many people were used to.

I'd be interested to see if there's a subtle difference in meaning between say 'Im going to try to do ten pull-ups' (I will attempt to do it) and 'im going to try and do ten pull-ups' (I will try, and I will do it). I suspect there might be more confidence of success with the latter.