Ambiguity of the day

Oct 20th, 2009 | By Stephanie Campisi | Category: Journal

From The Age:

Police hunt knife-wielding milk bar bandit

I guess there’s always a bad egg — even amongst milk bars.

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  1. I’d like to think it’s the Milkybar Kid gone bad after his childhood celebritydom.

    I read, somewhere - on language log most likely - that a group of people who study these ambiguities now refer to them as Crash Blossoms. So named after one particularly poetic looking ambiguity. I think it catch.

  2. Crash Blossoms. I quite like that. It seems to fit well with the word Mondegreen.

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