[washingtonismoney]

[quote author=washingtonismoney link=topic=6157.msg45532#msg45532 date=1344348814]
This notebook article, primarily about Ty Montgomery, may have the worst lede I have ever seen on a story. Just terrible. http://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/arti...767379.php

Ah, a pun hater. Here's another from today's beach volleyball story in the Merc:

"But May-Treanor wasn't getting misty about the end just yet."
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It's not so much the pun as the execution. Though I'll admit I'm a difficult guy to please on the pun front. In the volleyball case, the sentence makes sense both on the literal level (if May-Treanor wasn't named Misty, she could still be msity) and the punny level. On the other hand, the Montgomery sentence makes no sense aside from a vehicle to convey a pun, which is what makes it awful.

[washingtonismoney]

[quote author=washingtonismoney link=topic=6157.msg45532#msg45532 date=1344348814]
This notebook article, primarily about Ty Montgomery, may have the worst lede I have ever seen on a story. Just terrible. http://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/arti...767379.php

Ah, a pun hater. Here's another from today's beach volleyball story in the Merc:

"But May-Treanor wasn't getting misty about the end just yet."
[/quote]

It's not so much the pun as the execution. Though I'll admit I'm a difficult guy to please on the pun front. In the volleyball case, the sentence makes sense both on the literal level (if May-Treanor wasn't named Misty, she could still be msity) and the punny level. On the other hand, the Montgomery sentence makes no sense aside from a vehicle to convey a pun, which is what makes it awful.