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05 May, 2008

Much Ado About Nothing

The unduly excited punctuation of the day comes from Hindustan Times:

Amy Winehouse cheats on hubby again!

I haven’t been following Winehouse’s personal life too closely, but if she cheated on her husband once, as the above headline implies, then why the exclamation mark at the end? (Unless, of course, the sub-editor who wrote that headline is the chappie who got lucky, and the exclamation is also a proclamation.)

Anyway, here’s a blast from the past: An image of Billie Holiday.

Posted by Amit Varma in Arts and entertainment | WTF

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