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Tuesday, August 01, 2006 

Timing

This particular CBC new story has a great opening:

Some communities have packs of dogs roaming the streets. Some have geese making a mess of the local park pond.

In Fort Providence, N.W.T., the neighbourhood pest can head-butt a half-ton truck.


Kudos to whichever anonymous newswriter put that together, it's funny without dragging the whole story down into jokey territory. The newswriting at the CBC is generally very good, but this kind of dry comic timing always stands out.



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