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Can You Figure Out What’s Wrong With This Newspaper Headline?

Mar. 6, 2013 12:03am Jason Howerton

Headline in Minnesota Newspaper Is Horrible

(Reddit)

Look, it’s clear that the editors of this newspaper were trying to be creative by using a piece of a grapefruit as the letter “G” — but it’s still unbelievable that this headline made it past the copy desk.

This horrible editorial decision comes out of the Free Press of Mankato, Minn. Many readers have been poking fun at the newspaper after a user posted a photo on the Free Press Facebook page. Others were offended by the headline and the fact that people are joking about the phrase “rapefruit.”

“I’ve never heard of rapefruit but it sounds like an intense way to start my day,” one Facebook user wrote.

Another added, “I didn’t know that rapefruit was good for every meal. I tend to avoid rape-anything, but that might just be me.”

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theBru
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 7:47am
Rapefruit…gay raping another gay??? gaybanging??? it don’t look like any “G” I have ever seen…

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- whatthecrazy
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 11:24am
  Laughing hard here,silly.
  
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Noncentsical
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 7:46am
This is emblematic of the mess that we’re in.
The same stupid that created this headline, created this whole mess.

America is one big, hideous rapefruit.

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RightUnite
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 7:09am
Seriously! It IS Minnesota, not only the land of 10,000 lake’s but apparently the land of 10,000,000,000 loons!!

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 7:06am
Don’t worry Glenn, no one with a visual disability and depends on a mechanical device to read the news to them, would ever get confused and sue the newspaper, because Americans just don’t do things like that any more, we are enlightened now?

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EP46
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 6:51am
Not even good advice ….grapefruit /grapefruit juice should not be eaten when taking certain medicines~~it can be very dangerous

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Southerner01
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 6:23am
Richard Mourdock would refer to that as a “gift from God”.

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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 5:47am
Of course I saw it, I’m a Blaze reader. I’ve become adept at noticing bad headlines. Ta-dum!

I kid, I kid (sort of).

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Stoic one
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 5:41am
good play on words & topics……but as you know not funny.

but good play on words.

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bread and circuses
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 5:37am
If you rape a fruit, you are gay

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Protech64
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 2:25am
Only an Obama voter would not understand the ad.

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- betterpart
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 2:53am
  Ditto that. So far, the lowly left have been pro-rape.
  
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Diane TX
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 2:11am
The problem is that the grapefruit doesn’t make most people think of the letter “G”, and it’s a gorilla in the room thing. Most people will zero in on the word rape, first, and maybe later think – oh is that supposed to be the letter G ?

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- boss_ross
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 8:18am
  thanks for that explanation captain obvious.
  
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nzkiwi
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 2:08am
In North America, the cereal commonly known as “Canola” is more usually known in the rest of the world as “Rape” or “Rapeseed”. The name comes from the Latin word “rapum,” meaning turnip.

I was always amused at the consternation of the uninitiated who inquired about the crop that they were looking at when they were told “Rape”.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 6:07am
  I can see how that would be amusing, it is akin to someone asking in the south for a breakfast of ‘eggs and grits.’ Here is AZ, when one says ‘grits’ we mean gravel-road fill. The first time I was offered ‘grits’ in the south at seminary I simply stated ‘Why would anyone want to eat road-fill.’
  
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- CapnCrumbles32
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 8:08am
  Nice cut and paste job from Wikipedia. ‘Canola’ is not the same as ‘rapeseed. Canola came about from plant breeding and genetic modification. The name ‘Canola’ means Canadian ‘ola’ or oil. Rapeseed IS a parent plant of Canola but the two are different.
  
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- Bobj_1960
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 9:31am
  The cereal is GRANOLA, the COOKING OIL is Canola
  
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marine249
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 1:59am
What it looks like to me is, remember when elec. games 1st
came out, it was these little mouths going around the board
eating rapefruit.

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- marine249
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 9:59am
  pac man
  
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MDECKER
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 1:30am
I thought it was supposed to be a gun. Just like the ones teachers are so disturbed about recently.

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DEFCON4
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 1:12am
Rapefruit for the ‘cereal-rapists’ ..”With out ‘due’ Process”.

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Nabuquduriuzhur
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:51am
It’s like naming this pretty magenta flower this:

http://www.plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=OROBA

What are people thinking?

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- Southerner01
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 6:24am
  Ick
  
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Nabuquduriuzhur
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:49am
It means that whoever proofed that, didn’t bother to see what it looked like.

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- Southerner01
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 6:25am
  Even if you read the piece of fruit as a letter, it looks like Crapefruit.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:43am
Not too many years ago, employees would have been fired for making such a mistake.
The fear of being fired, made employees do a better job.
We have unions now. You can’t be fired, unless you murder someone in cold blood, in front of at least 12 witnesses.

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- Southerner01
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 6:29am
  We have fewer unions now that we have at any point since the 18th century. The only exception is public sector unions.
  
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nesmond
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:30am
I’m confused. First the lady on Hannity wants men to know that they should not rape women, then they want us to eat rapefruit. WTF is goin’ on?

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whatthecrazy
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:24am
No seriously, i think they may be into fruit now, i mean whats left?

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KMHArms.com
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:24am
Yeah, there is no such thing as a ‘Free Press’, they are all bought and paid for by the liberal open society. Was this the correct answer.

Whats a ‘RapeFruit’ anyway.

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Xanderson
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:21am
What a weird night on Hannity. First the crazy woman who said women don’t need guns but that men need to be trained not to rape women and then, this:

“I don’t think that we should be telling women anything,” Maxwell said. “I think we should be telling grapefruit not to rape women and start the conversation there.”

Curious theme, Sean :/

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Cavallo
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:17am
Just tell it to stop raping. That should work, right? The dems and leftists say so. Stop the rape, fruit!

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- CatB
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:25am
  So … that tree in my side yard .. is a rapefruit tree? Agree .. just tell it not to rape fruit .. problem solved.
  
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- SUNTZU
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:25am
  Crape fruit
  
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- msjoe43
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 3:22am
  Eat bloodly orapefruit … Known for their sweet and mellow flavor.
  
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- Southerner01
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 6:27am
  No, you are supposed to throw up on it and tell it you’re having a period.
  
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nesmond
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:14am
I hear rapefruit was part of ol’ Bill Clinton’s complete breakfast.

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- whatthecrazy
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:23am
  And a cigar for after?
  
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Keatonc333
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:14am
I think I figured it out! its printed on paper and not the internet?

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- Diane TX
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 2:03am
  Poor Keaton, can’t see the forest for the trees. It must be a “regressive” thingy.
  
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