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It's about the size

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essentially declared a war

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since the Great Depression

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from the sound-bite culture.
(What's the policy on hypenated words, AP? Can we get a rights clarification on that?)

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#1 posted by Anonymous , June 17, 2008 10:04 AM

Soooo funny - I laughed out loud for the better part of a minute - thanks!

David B.

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"It's" is a contraction of two words, so you may be in to the AP for $12.50, there, bud.

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Well, this is completely

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#4 posted by Anonymous , June 17, 2008 11:32 AM

What about "Could not be reached" and "Was unavailable for comment"

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Wow I laughed hard.

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Reminder: Copyright doesn't protect ideas, only instantiations. The canonical workaround is to paraphrase the story in your own words.

On the other hand, it might be fun to try to write a story about this issue made up entirely of five-word-or-less fragments from entirely unrelated stories. The ransom-note school of journalism.

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Heheh - pretty awesome, guys. =)

- David Stein

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cant you make an excerpt haiku?

you take 3 consecutive words from one article...3 or 4 from another. sting them together for a nice haiku

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What happens if there's more than 5 words pasted in a comment on your site? Is it possible to comment a website into the poorhouse? let's find out:

"The Associated Press, following criticism from"

I got this one-you can fwd the bill to me...

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#10 posted by w000t , June 17, 2008 7:12 PM

This made me think of Candlejack. He's this guy wh

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#11 posted by kaiza , June 18, 2008 6:38 AM

Hey, guess what I can say in 5 words or less?

AP sux

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