Our reader and commentator Hermione wrote to us about a newspaper article with this title.

The article is about a nasty court case, so I won’t link to it, but the reporter writes as though he has a hidden spanking agenda. Here’s what Hermione noticed:

The aforementioned butts are cigarette butts the reporter counted on the ground in the outdoor smoking area, to pass the time while waiting for the verdict. And the stripes were all that could be seen on the video monitors providing the news media with a view of the action in the courtroom.

Other words of that sort within the story were, in order:

rump
admonished
brow-beaten
flummoxed
beaten
stress
victim
holding cells
knitting needles (no sorry, that’s just silly)

LOL Yeah, spank me with that knitting needle!

Grim topic notwithstanding, I thought this was as fine a startle as one can hope to find in a mainstream paper. Thanks, Hermione!

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