Crash blossoms has become popular term now in the UK, thanks to Simon Hoggart’s column in the Guardian. Last week he reported a brief note about the coining of crash blossoms last year and its recent appearance as a feature in the New York Timse. This weeks he adds: • “Thanks for your “crash blossoms” – headlines which mean something they’re not meant to mean. Peter Mittins sent Bus on Fire – Passengers Alight; I liked Leslie Plommer’s Chinese in Car Clash, and One-legged Man Was Unbalanced; Victor Ford found in the Jerusalem Post, Haig Still Stiff on Withdrawal. I loved Tony Eldridge’s memory from the old Westminster Times: Birth Pill Plan for Girls Flayed by Priests.
Crash blossoms has become popular term now in the UK, thanks to Simon Hoggart’s column in the Guardian. Last week he reported a brief note about the coining of crash blossoms last year and its recent appearance as a feature in the New York Timse. This weeks he adds: • “Thanks for your “crash blossoms” – headlines which mean something they’re not meant to mean. Peter Mittins sent Bus on Fire – Passengers Alight; I liked Leslie Plommer’s Chinese in Car Clash, and One-legged Man Was Unbalanced; Victor Ford found in the Jerusalem Post, Haig Still Stiff on Withdrawal. I loved Tony Eldridge’s memory from the old Westminster Times: Birth Pill Plan for Girls Flayed by Priests.