“Monkeys Control a Robot Arm With Their Thoughts”
bq. — “_New York Times,_ May 29, 2008”:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/science/29brain.html?hp
sleight of hand
Small quotations that strike my fancy.
“Monkeys Control a Robot Arm With Their Thoughts”
bq. — “_New York Times,_ May 29, 2008”:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/science/29brain.html?hp
“Errs to throne”
bq. _Chicago Tribune,_ October 28, 2006, referring to St. Louis’s World Series win, 4 games to 1 over Detroit
This headline works in so many ways: criticizing Detroit for making so many critical errors, dissing St. Louis by suggesting they backed into the title through little virtue of their own, and of course it’s a perfect pun.
Segmented marketing, sure: but this is ridiculous. You might want to have more than one possible buyer in mind.
“Champs make mockery of listless Cubs”
bq. _Chicago Tribune,_ May 20, 2006, referring to the White Sox’s win in the Chicago teams’ first meeting of 2006
“LollapaLucy”
bq. Ann Boyd’s IM status message, May 4, 2006
“Scones == Giant Cookies”
bq. Nathan Lenz, IM status message, April 14, 2006
“Sox overcome rain, Tribe”
bq. _Chicago Tribune,_ April 3, 2006
“Post-Title Pitfall: Complacency”
bq. _Chicago Tribune,_ April 2, 2006, early edition