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May 16, 2006

Bogus Contest: Punny, content-free headline

Undoubtedly because everything I brought with me, including the inside of a toothpaste tube, got soaked last night as I walked the few blocks from the train station to the Syndicate conference, I woke up this morning with a punny headline in my freshly-rinsed brain. Your job is to come up with a news item for which it would be appropriate:

Deluge Ex Machina

As always, the prize consists of winning. [Tags: puzzles syndicate]

Posted by D. Weinberger at May 16, 2006 07:52 AM


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Losing 22-0 to the Cardinals in the bottom of the fourth, the Cubs are saved when a sudden storm dropped 8 inches of rain in two hours on Wrigley Field, making the field unplayable and wiping out the game and statistics.

Posted by: Eric | May 16, 2006 08:48 AM


"Deluge ex machina," Page 6 of The New York Post:

Seems a certain Cluetrain author left his Palm Pilot at a Pret a Manger on 42nd Street, just off Lex. He was on his way to a conference to present his talk entitled, "I never meta data I didn't like."

It just so happens this device was found to contain the user IDs and passwords for a number of "progressive" online sites. These sites were deluged with traffic after the PDA's contents were Slashdotted.

Posted by: Bill K. | May 16, 2006 09:43 AM


Latin heart throb Enrique "Mas Macho" Cojones, ex-lead singer of the Latin Rap group "Machina" was rushed to the hospital today after a a sleding while vacationing.

Enrique had slipped off his "luge", a small sled, and hit a retaining wall and was impaled upon the sled. A team of doctors expect to remove the device surgically from the Ex Machina singer later today.

Photographs of the impaled singer are being downloaded from the internet is record numbers
from Enriques' blog at mas_macho_cojones.com

Posted by: McD | May 16, 2006 12:20 PM


Latin heart throb Enrique "Mas Macho" Cojones, ex-lead singer of the Latin Rap group "Machina" was rushed to the hospital today after a a sleding while vacationing.

Enrique had slipped off his "luge", a small sled, and hit a retaining wall and was impaled upon the sled. A team of doctors expect to remove the device surgically from the Ex Machina singer later today.

Photographs of the impaled singer are being downloaded from the internet is record numbers
from Enriques' blog at mas_macho_cojones.com

Posted by: McD | May 16, 2006 12:26 PM


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