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Irwell - 29 Nov 2008 03:19 GMT

Venus, Jupiter will 'shine' on Monday night
Slendor, crescent moon will illuminate two brightest planets
Image: Rendition of Dec. 1 night sky showing the moon, Venus and Jupiter
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27958792/

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John Holmes - 29 Nov 2008 06:06 GMT

> Venus, Jupiter will 'shine' on Monday night
> Slendor, crescent moon will illuminate two brightest planets
> Image: Rendition of Dec. 1 night sky showing the moon, Venus and
> Jupiter http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27958792/

It's the page editor who is an idiot rather than the columnist; the rest
of the article doesn't read too badly.

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CDB - 29 Nov 2008 13:30 GMT

>> Venus, Jupiter will 'shine' on Monday night
>> Slendor, crescent moon will illuminate two brightest planets
>> Image: Rendition of Dec. 1 night sky showing the moon, Venus and
>> Jupiter http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27958792/

> It's the page editor who is an idiot rather than the columnist; the
> rest of the article doesn't read too badly.

Could the idiot have just been punning around? The sense "decorate,
embellish, brightly adorn" would work well enough, and "shine" is in
quotation marks.

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John Holmes - 29 Nov 2008 14:25 GMT

>>> Venus, Jupiter will 'shine' on Monday night
>>> Slendor, crescent moon will illuminate two brightest planets
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> embellish, brightly adorn" would work well enough, and "shine" is in
> quotation marks.

That seems a bit of a stretch to me. The quotation marks would have to
be on 'illuminate'. And OED doesn't know 'slendor' as a variant.

But note the similarity to Pompey's logo.

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CDB - 29 Nov 2008 15:00 GMT

>>>> Venus, Jupiter will 'shine' on Monday night
>>>> Slendor, crescent moon will illuminate two brightest planets
>>>> Image: Rendition of Dec. 1 night sky showing the moon, Venus and
>>>> Jupiter http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27958792/

>>> It's the page editor who is an idiot rather than the columnist;
>>> the rest of the article doesn't read too badly.

>> Could the idiot have just been punning around? The sense
>> "decorate, embellish, brightly adorn" would work well enough, and
>> "shine" is in quotation marks.

> That seems a bit of a stretch to me. The quotation marks would have
> to be on 'illuminate'. And OED doesn't know 'slendor' as a variant.

True. The "slendor" was what took the quotation marks out from around
my repetition of "idiot" above.

But it occurred to me that the marks around "shine" might have been
intended to signal that the word was being used figuratively, to mean
something like "show to advantage, look their best". That could lead
to the interpretation of "illuminate" that I suggested. I suppose
we'll never know for sure.

> But note the similarity to Pompey's logo.

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wide-ranging education in the association of ideas today, for which I
thank you again.

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John Varela - 30 Nov 2008 02:11 GMT

> That seems a bit of a stretch to me. The quotation marks would have to
> be on 'illuminate'.

On the web page, that's "illumninate". They need a new headline
writer. And a copy editor.

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R H Draney - 30 Nov 2008 03:07 GMT

John Varela filted:

>> That seems a bit of a stretch to me. The quotation marks would have to
>> be on 'illuminate'.
>
>On the web page, that's "illumninate". They need a new headline
>writer. And a copy editor.

And a couple of slaps to the head....r

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