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No time to think up a title...

By Jonathan Holmes on May 3, 09 06:20 PM in

... I'm 20 hours away from a very, very important essay deadline and am in a full-blown-laptop-smashing panic.

Still, thought I'd quickly highlight this deliberately ambiguous headline, just in from the BBC:

Two dead in 'chemical incident'

What in the hell is a chemical incident? Is it an explosion? A terrorist attack? A spilt bottle of bleach? The headline is so careful not to misinform it ends up saying just enough to terrify: letting the imagination run wild over the tiny, incredibly vague word 'incident', which could equally mean stubbing a toe or destroying the world.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I must get back to a much more tangible terror.

[Runs off screaming]

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Kev said:

According to the "News"paper today, "incident" translates to "double suicide with unknown white powder"

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