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I want to know who writes the headlines on CNN.com...
I want to know who writes the headlines on CNN.com...
#1
... because he's my kind of person. 
For http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/19/showbiz/u ... _inthenews]an article on a Monty Python reunion, they have "Monty Python:  They're Not Dead Yet!"
And for http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/18/travel/mi ... le_sidebar]an article about flying luxury class on the Middle Eastern airlines, the header was "Sheikhs on a Plane".
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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#2
I'm proud to say I once threw a Monty Python reference into an official NATO communication.  A message I saw from a few years prior mentioned a local named Pero (I forget the family name).  Another, more recent, message referred to someone of the same name as having died.  While it wasn't of earth-shaking importance, it would be useful for the records I was organizing to know if the two men were one and the same, because if so, there'd be no expectation of further references to the first.  So I e-mailed the message source, asking the question ... and then in the same e-mail I restated my inquiry as, "Is this an ex-Pero?"  Alas, I never saw any indication, for good or ill, that anyone recognized the joke.  
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
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#3
Never really got into the humour of the Python, but I do recognize some of this.
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it:  "This is a lighthouse.  Your call!"
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