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Ten Ridiculous Lines from Newspapers and Other News Related Media.

1. 'A Sydney man is critically ill after eating a slug as a dare, leading authorities to issue health warnings on devouring raw gastropods.' news.com.au. Okay, firstly, someone has been playing with their thesaurus—why say 'devouring' when you can say 'eating', or maybe even 'consuming' if you want to alternate your 'eat's. I seriously don't believe that this man devoured, with the passion inherent in the word, said gastropod. I may be a sesquipedalian myself and so you may think I don't have a leg to argue with here, but there is a time and a place. And that brings us to the 'gastropod' issue—why warn the general public about doing something which they will have to look up in a dictionary. And, are they saying that if it had been cooked in a nice garlic butter sauce, he wouldn't be in this predicament? Ridiculous line.