On CNN.com, I saw these three headlines listed one after another under "Top News":
Director Billy Wilder dead at 95 | Filmography
Country singer Lyle Lovett trampled by bull
Giant octopus caught off New Zealand
Whoa.
Billy Wilder was great--one of the directors who helped to make movies a populist art.
The Lyle Lovett headline leads one to believe, for just a second, that perhaps Lyle was bull-riding. The words "country singer" and "bull" equal cowboy hat and man being tossed violently about on the back of a bull with one hand on the saddle, one in the air as if waving hello.
I've heard of giant squid, but never giant octopus.
Posted by eugene at March 28, 2002 7:20 PM