A writer waits a lifetime for a moment like this.
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The whole thing is a work of art.
Hot dog spill shuts down highway in Pennsylvania commuters' wurst nightmare
A truckload of hot dogs has spilled across a Pennsylvania highway after a crash, clogging the road toward the end of the morning rush hour.
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Drivers are requested to treat it as a drive through.
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Very this energy nypost.com/2015/06/09/n...
The genius behind ‘Headless Body in Topless Bar’ headline dies at 74
Vincent A. Musetto, who wrote the greatest headline in New York newspaper history, died Tuesday at 74 from cancer. He is survived by his wife, Claire, and a daughter, Carly — and will be mourned as…
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“Wieners everywhere stop traffic”
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thats what i call a dogg zzone 9000
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🤣🤣🤣
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Thanks, now I’ll have the song stuck in my head 😆
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😂😂😂
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I don't know; I think that headline probably started out fairly frank, but now it's frank-further.
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Not the wiener wipeout we needed, but the one we deserved. salutes fallen franks
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"Hot-dogs clog important artery"
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I never sausage a mess
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...You only get one moment you better own it...
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An example of what it does to your arteries! 😇
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Cc: @doughboys.bsky.social’s Frank Wiger
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Surely a few shrews were buried under all those hot dogs.
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My wife and I have a running joke that I send her anything odd that gets spilled on the road with "It happened again..." last time was alfredo sauce
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The writer:
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Hot Dog it’s Aug 1st, and today is going from bad to wurst
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well they sure made a meal of it!
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The traffic jam put me behind schedule. It took me all day to ketchup.
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Feel like they hit it out of the park with the clogged arteries metaphor. Delightful article.
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"Mother says truck driver was always a real brat."
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Whoever wrote that headline deserves a raise.
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This is a job for...Condiment King!
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“Clogged the artery” 🎯
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That lucky dog!
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Mustard been awful.
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Too many hotdogs will clog your arteries
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My favourite headline from Scotland after the best team in the country lost to minions, Inverness. images.app.goo.gl/W6Hw3MXqGian...
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A+ no notes
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the text in this article has some great bystander quotes (no spoilers) i'm about to watch the embedded bystander video www.wgal.com/article/penn...
4 injured after tractor-trailer crash spills thousands of hot dogs on I-83
A stretch of Interstate 83 was closed in both directions after a tractor-trailer crash left 1,000 pounds of frozen hot dogs along the highway.
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He relished the headline
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Somebody interned at the daily news
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🤣👍
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Probably should’ve secured the load better. Heinz sight is a wonderful thing.
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Some 15-20 years ago
Translated from Norwegian: «Toilet paper stopped traffic on E18 At Hjortnes, traffic was delayed this evening after large amounts of toilet paper ended up on the roadway. - Many skid marks in the area, the police write on Twitter.»
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Makes me proud this was nearby 😂
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We never sausage a mess
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The whole “hot dog accident blocks artery” headline is just screaming to be let loose
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Where’s Joey chestnut when you need him
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You can’t skip lunch 🤷🏼♀️
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Reminds me of a book I once read...
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Where's 40,000 pounds of bananas when you need them?
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Time to share the best football headline of all time (after Caledonian Thistle humiliated Glasgow Celtic) "Super Caley Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious"
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I've had worse Friday nights
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Frankly this is not funny.
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Reminds me that Ice Nine Kills has a song called “Wurst Vacation”
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This could have been published in The Onion. @theonion.com
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Fire chief Dauberman? Really? 🌭🌭🌭🌭🐕🐕🐕🐕🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤪
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"that briefly clogged the...artery"
Truly a dream wordplay chance
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Yes, hot dogs do clog arteries
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Headline is no Young Boys Wankdorff Erection but it'll do.
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I'm still waiting to become a renowned film critic RIGHT when a new monkey movie comes out, so i can write "audiences will go ape for [film]" and it'll get on the film poster.
...THAT, is my ONE dream in life.
🐒🎬📰
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@thetiser.bsky.social you have competition 😆
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Quite frankly, they relish opportunities like this.
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I read the headline as if "hot" were the adjective and "dog spill" were the noun, which gives it a whole other meaning
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And clogged the arteries 😉👌🤣🤩
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I never sausage a thing.
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Made my day.
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"after" is a strange choice of proposition though. "in a crash that..."
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@jeremywhite.bsky.social side gig
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Link? But you’d all relish that, wouldn’t you?
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“Clogged the heavily travelled artery”
Is this a cholesterol pun snuck in by the author or merely a coincidence? 😂
I do hope it’s the former!
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I think @emath.bsky.social needs to read this.
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How many minutes of life did each passenger lose at the airport per hot dog?
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It was the best of times...
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Headline writer they is
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My mother was a journalist. She would have been pleased.
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My brain immediately said “Scranton, PA” and bass-sang “thirty thoouusand pounds”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGld...
Harry Chapin - Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas
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Looks like someone really dropped the ballpark on this one! 🌭🚧That’s one way to ketchup on your commute! 🍅😂
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They didn't stand byline tho.
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Hot dog! That’s a hell of a mess
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I really hope they were able to ketchup to the driver!😉
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There was video captured of one of the drivers who was there at the time of the accident:
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Any jumping frogs?
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Link?
Heh.
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You could say that they relish it
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Not far from where I used to live
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We were driving in Scotland once when we came across the very strong smell of fried pork/bacon. Anyway, it turned out that a truckload of pigs had crashed and caught fire. Pretty horrible, yet mouthwatering.
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Harlan Ellison rn:
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I remember where I was when I heard about the Great Glizzard of 2025.
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😂😆😂
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🤣😂🤣
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How about this one?
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I couldn't mustard the energy to click on the link.
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My team won a national newspaper award for headline writing eons.
I know one was a creation of a reporter, "Puppeteer seeks apprentices - no strings attached," and another a story about a black bear destroying a fiddlehead stand ("Trouble is a bruin.")
I had some good uns over the years.
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I had a friend who worked for the New York Times, and he found one headline to be hilarious.
It was about some Bhagwan that had to leave the US, I don't remember if it was because of charges or divorce, or whatever.
Anyway, the headline was "Let Bhagwans be Bhagwans"
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@karenkilgariff.bsky.social @myfavoritemurder.bsky.social Probably not the Hot Dog Summer you envisioned, but one you need to know about anyway 🌭
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🤣😂🤣😂
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Perfection! 😚
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Anywhere near Scranton?
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My 13 year said "glizzy gridlock" and I don't know whether to be proud of the alliteration or ashamed of the brainrot.
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Okay, but why does the apostrophe go after the s here? I've learned. It's just so complex.
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We now know how the sausage gets made…
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No need to get all bratty about it, headline writer. Sheesh.
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Maybe they can use the dogs to fill in some pot-holes. Would last longer than what they use now.
The only good section of PA roadway is the one they just tore up and repaved... at least until winter comes.
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One headline writer has singlehandedly redeemed the tarnished reputation of their colleagues.
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@bryancurtis.bsky.social #strainedpun #WIENER
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They got the title AND the byline... and didn't have to use "wiener". Legend.
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Drivers of old bangers are said to be more at risk, particularly those heading to the nearby links…
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Motorists dogged by delays.
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Frankly, it seems a bit suspect.
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We're all trying to find out who's responsible for this.
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Regurgitation from the hot dog eating contest earlier in the month?
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It’s like “ Headless body found in topless bar” 😍
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...and like this!
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@nickabbot.bsky.social this is a pretty good headline .
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@karenkilgariff.bsky.social Content made for you
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This reminds me of a moment in Allan Gurganus’ work where a gay man is carrying dildos in a bag on a subway train, and the bag hurts, causing dildos to ricochet everywhere and bounce around the subway car.
Gurganus must have witnessed a similar event IRL.
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Clogging all those arteries.
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😂🤣
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Only bettered if it had collided with a tanker full of ketchup and a van load of buns
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A headline writer went home snorting and giggling, too.
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Bravo 👏 👏👏 Pure genius! 😂😂😂😂😂
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Crowd waiting for a mustard crash.
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@theguardian.com tries to top it—not sure they cut the mustard 😜
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Dizzy with glizzys: hotdog spill on Pennsylvania highway leaves motorists steamed
Crews worked to clean up strewn links which led to morning traffic being snagged in chain reaction
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omg the smell…
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Another winner...
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The scent must be bad....
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Colonel Mustard to head the investigation.
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The lede is also chef's kiss
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LOL
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You only get sausage spillage in your life...
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The Finnish handball league (yes, a rather niche sport here) has two leading teams, the Riihimäki Cocks and Drumsö Idrottskamrader Dicken. You can't believe how many headlines these two have produced.
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Right the middle of...putting sunglasses...the dog days of summer
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Ha!
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Kelly Clarkson - A Moment Like This (VIDEO)
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I relish an opportunity like this.
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This is epic
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Everybody furts
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Brat Summer returns
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Damn that’s worse than when an Oscar Meyer Wiener mobile crashed into my student union front doors in college causing damage, hurting a few people, and spilling dogs on the pavement. The great wiener crash on 1991
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Looks like they mustard the troops for this clean up.
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@thepressbox.bsky.social strained pun headline!
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Somebody’s going to get grilled over this.
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Another classic:
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As little as one hot dog a day...
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Needs title like The Hoboken Chicken Emergency… 🤣
Shrewsbury Wiener Roast
PennDOT’s Wurst Nightmare
York’s Sausage Fest
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Not to be missed: “clogged the artery”
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An unfortunate weinering would have been a great tagline as well
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"Joey Chestnut has been called for backup "
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Reminds me of the legendary L.A. traffic reporter Bill Keane telling everyone to “watch out for da brie on the freeway” when a truck carrying a load of cheese spilled over.
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Better get the Nathan’s hotdog eating champions out there to clean it up!
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Surprised they didn't go for Penisylvania tbh
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The real catastrophe was when two trucks full of buns also spilled out.
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This reminds me when I worked in the news, one of our reporters covered a story about a delivery truck that had tipped and spilled Skittles all over the highway. The puns were fast and furious.
Afterwards, each time she'd interview the county Sheriff for a story, she'd bring him a bag of Skittles.
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wurst uber alles
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It's so beautiful.
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@apnews.com - give this writer their byline!
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Quick, someone finds some trucks with bread, onions, ketchup and mustard....
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Reminds me of
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LOL
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we all know the writer caused the accident. no one puts the weiner before the cart like this, as we say in the hotdog business
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are they still looking for the guy who did this?
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There’s that 35 minutes per hot dog we’re losing.
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Stop this nonsense and get your buns over there
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Not all heros wear capes
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The AP writer who wrote this is at a bar with their journo friends right now, and hasn't paid for a drink all night.
