A Headline that Made Me Throw up In My Mouth

[Happyhippychick]

"Romney and Gingrich trade blows in Florida".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/romney-gingrich-trade-blows-in-florida/2012/01/30/gIQAVzMDcQ_video.html

Seriously editors, are you all non-sexual creatures that don't get the double entendre or am I just reading too much into these things??

[Patrick_Bateman]

1. Snort and Chuckle

Get your minda outta the gutter gal!

Everybody knows they both suck.

[immoderate]

2. They always do this before they debate.

It's a kind of solidarity ritual. It's rare for them to do it for the press though.

--imm

[Rex]

3. Doncha know it is MANLY to 'trade blows'!

The Pony Post is working at making sure the knuckle dragging crowd has something to look at besides the truth. It is to BEEF up their records with MANLY MANLY talk...scuse me while I spit this big chaw outta mah mouth...manly!!!! Oh...also maybe a crotch adjustment is in order as well...manly MANLY!!!!

So yes, you are reading into it...it has nothing to do with sex...and more to do with HEALTH.

[Wait Wut]

4. I could probably come up with 69 reasons...

...why you have a dirty mind.

[Quantess]

5. The normal phrase is "exchanged blows"

...not traded blow jobs on each other. Yikes.

I wonder if someone was just stressed and wasn't thinking.

[Lint Head]

6. Was it a fair trade?

[Sheepshank]

7. I wonder which was the bigger blow hard? n/t

[redqueen]

8. I've seen it used in many contexts (sports, politics, etc)...

always referring to a verbal sparring match.

I would never have thought of anything else had you not just suggested it. Now I wish I could un-think it.

[Happyhippychick]

10. Sorry!

My bad. My mind is truly in the gutter.

[Quantess]

12. Are you sure it isn't "exchanged blows"?

I don't remember ever seeing "traded blows". It's not much of a difference but the first one is more conventional.

[redqueen]

13. Oh yeah,

many times. I've seen 'traded' used more than 'exchanged', I think.

[Happyhippychick]

9. Am I going to get in trouble for writing this post?

I'm so paranoid now.

[HappyMe]

16. I don't blame you for the worry over trouble.

There seems to be a lack of humor here. And you never know when the holier than thou types will show up.

I find a bit of double entendre funny sometimes. If people want to think me juvenile --- let 'em.

It's a message board.....

[Tansy_Gold]

22. Excuse me, but I AM holier than thou

and I thought it was delightfully funny.



Tansy Gold, still refusing to grow up

[MineralMan]

11. There's no ambiguity there, so no reason to see any sexual

content. The sentence uses the noun "blow" in its plural form. The most common meaning of the noun "blow" is a physical strike of some kind. "Trading blows" is a very, very common usage, meaning they are fighting.

The sexual use of that word is using the verb form, "to blow," which refers to the movement of air as its primary meaning. The wind blows. You blow out a candle. And so on. The sexual meaning is way down the list for this commonly used verb.

If you're seeing sexual content in that headline, you're looking too hard. The problem is not in the use of words, it's in how you perceived those words.

This headline is absolutely clear and refers to the battle between the two candidates, not their sexual habits.

[VWolf]

17. You forgot to mention

"blow" as a singular noun. You know, the kind that dubya loved.

[Zebedeo]

20. +1

Absolutely correct on all points.

[rocktivity]

14. Candidate for this year's "You Call This NEWS?" Award

Special Achievement Category


rocktivity

[HappyMe]

15. lol!

Sorry, I thought it was funny.

edited to add -- I like double entendre sometimes.

[Scuba]

18. After which, they squeezed out Santorum.

[Rex]

19. Okay now THAT made me

throw up in my mouth a little.

[NAO]

21. The Evangelicals said, "b/f we marry the guy next door, let's have a fling..."

The Evangelical spokesman said:

"Before we marry the guy next door, don't you think we ought to have a fling with a tall dark stranger and see if he can support us in the manner to which we'd like to be accustomed? And if he can't, we can always marry the steady beau who lives next door."

The homosexual agenda continues, right in the heart of Evangelical lala land.

[zbdent]

23. with Santorum in the rear ...

[saras]

24. It's a way of getting off without Santorum being involved

[rbrnmw]

25. thanks for a good laugh nt