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13 June 2009 · 9:12 pm · Soonerland

Actual headline from NewsOK:

Battiest woman dies in vehicle accident

This is the story. And this is where she’s from.

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6 comments

  1. The Local Malcontent »

    13 June 2009 · 11:26 pm

    FYI, the town name is pronounced “Ba-TEEST”.
    But the headline is funny, in a macabre way.

  2. CGHill »

    13 June 2009 · 11:31 pm

    About five years ago, I did a post on town names that might not pass muster with our Cultural Arbiters, riffing off PETA’s attempt to persuade Slaughterville to change its name to something putatively wussy. Battiest was one of them.

  3. Francis W. Porretto »

    14 June 2009 · 4:49 am

    I do love those “Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge” type headlines. I sometimes think reporters and editors look for opportunities to sneak them into their publications.

  4. SnoopyTheGoon »

    14 June 2009 · 7:42 am

    What’s with this sexism? Why should the gender of the batty person be stressed? I am really lost with that headline ;-)

  5. fillyjonk »

    14 June 2009 · 7:41 pm

    I get it (having had students from “Ba-TEEST,” and having driven through there once with a colleague), but I laughed aloud nonetheless.

  6. fillyjonk »

    14 June 2009 · 7:41 pm

    And yeah, I guess I’m insensitive because someone DID die.

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