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Jackie	Post subject: Now I have a headache Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 6:30 pm
Joined: Sun Mar 02, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 598 Location: The Herald in Everett, WA	This gets my vote for the year's most stupid-ass excuse for a story:<p>BC-Hogwarts Headaches, HFR,0428 By XXXXXX Associated Press Writer<p>Has the latest Harry Potter fantasy cast a spell of “Hogwarts headaches” on some of its most avid readers? A pediatrician says he had three otherwise healthy children complain of headaches for two to three days last summer. It turns out all had been reading the 870-page “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” in marathon sessions.
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RimRat	Post subject: Re: Now I have a headache Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 6:46 pm
Joined: Tue Oct 28, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 131 Location: South of Detroit	Stupid doesn't begin. Well, yeah, it does begin. ... It ends at the paper for which I work, which is putting this lame story on A1.
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: Now I have a headache Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 9:36 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	It's another one of those stories that cannot withstand even the lightest scrutiny yet will be run in hundreds of newspapers and talked about on hundreds of stupid morning radio programs.<p>Three alleged victims.<p>The tipoff in this ridiculous story is: "Just keeping writing great books. I wouldn't dream of giving her advice," said Bennett, who is the author of medical humor books.<p>What a riot!
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gullyj	Post subject: Re: Now I have a headache Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 7:43 pm
Joined: Fri Jun 21, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 145 Location: Toronto	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by RimRat: Stupid doesn't begin. Well, yeah, it does begin. ... It ends at the paper for which I work, which is putting this lame story on A1.<hr></blockquote><p>And Toronto Star to the page one list...with a turn.
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RimRat	Post subject: Re: Now I have a headache Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 8:58 pm
Joined: Tue Oct 28, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 131 Location: South of Detroit	An addendum. I thought for awhile saner heads would prevail here. The Potter story was bumped off A1 Wednesday night by something at least marginally resembling real news. Of course, I was wrong about the sanity thing: They skyboxed it.<p>Your local newspaper, striking a blow for literacy everywhere.
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: Now I have a headache Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 1:15 am
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	It looks like a lot of editors weren't thinking very clearly that day.
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jjmoney62	Post subject: Re: Now I have a headache Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 7:35 am
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 3135 Location: Albuquerque, N.M. USA	Is that twice in the same day in the Washington Post?
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SusanV	Post subject: Re: Now I have a headache Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 1:18 pm
Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1399 Location: In the newsroom	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by jjmoney62: Is that twice in the same day in the Washington Post?<hr></blockquote> Looks like it was picked up twice in the search because the heds are different (presumably changed between editions). I nearly choked on my coffee when I encountered it on A3. Ugh!<p>[ November 01, 2003: Message edited by: SusanV ]</p>
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Jackie	Post subject: Re: Now I have a headache Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2003 7:54 pm
Joined: Sun Mar 02, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 598 Location: The Herald in Everett, WA	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by canuck: <p>And Toronto Star to the page one list...with a turn.<hr></blockquote><p>My sincere sympathies. We just made fun of it for a couple of minutes, and I spiked it into the trash.
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