The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
NOTE: The excerpt below is from the 7/14/08 BOTW archives.
It’s Always in the Last Place You Look
“Shark Found in Australian Pool”–headline, Agence France-Presse, July 11
Bottom Stories of the Day
- “Pineapples Not Banned in City, Host Panel Says”–headline, Rocky Mountain News (Denver), July 9
- “M.L. Walker Born in 1864, Not 1867”–headline, Richmond Times-Dispatch, July 11
- “No Bomb Found at Lantana Bingo Hall This Morning”–headline, Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, July 10
Mystery Solved
Freud famously asked: What do women want? The Associated Press reports that one young man believes he has discovered the answer:
Nick Epperson, a 24-year-old grad student, spent the night outside an AT&T store in Atlanta, keeping his cheer up with bags of Doritos, three games of Scrabble and two packs of cigarettes. Asked why he was waiting in line, he responded simply “Chicks dig the iPhone.”
The jury is still out as to whether chicks dig Dorito-munching, chain-smoking, Scrabble-playing grad students.
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