But for the life of me the first eleven words of the headline of this story look as though they had been generated by a computer.
It’s a propos of some remarks made in comments but all I have to add is that it reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson’s wisecrack “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
It’s gonna be a long summer. Maybe followed up with a rattle down the New Madrid fault.
The headline is actually pretty prolix. I wonder if that’s the problem. Too many words confused the sub-editor.
The very word. I thought of using it myself in describing the headline.
Let’s rewrite:
Transvestite cannibal on lam: victim was boyfriend