Spot the...

Spot the bloopers:

The New Paper on Sunday (Sept 22)

ST (Sept 23)

Both the cartoon and the illustration used the hammer and sickle (and red star too in the latter) to represent present-day Russia. Nope!... the Russian Federation junked this communist-era symbol soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its empire in the early 1990s (so why didn't anyone ask the old-timers like me?).

Spot the ambiguity

ST (Sept 23, page 1 blurb)

Hmm, some about-to-be-hitched people are just "too round"? What must they do to "get flat first"? Simple solution: add the article "a"...

Get a flat first,
then get
hitched

Or read the inside page blurb, which is unambiguous (even without the article "a"):

RazorTV blurb (Sept 23)

It could mean:
a) Pamelyn Chee does not even deserve to be called a token Asian beauty, let alone a real Asian beauty; OR
b) she is more than a token Asian beauty, ie, she can actually act.

Did this headline work for you?

TODAY (Sept 23)

It is either:
a) a clever play on words; OR
b) too literal, ie, mocking in its tone, whatever the merits of the story itself.

A letter that's too pollyannaish?

ST Forum (Sept 23)

(And, besides, I did a double-take on the circled part; I initially read it as Singapore having a military presence in Sarawak! Better editing would have sorted that out.)

Bouquet: A very good letter that nails the issue down

TODAY (Sept 23)

Bouquet: I learnt a new idiom from this headline!

ST (Sept 23)

If you were as curious as I was about the idiom "country mile", here's an explanation:

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/32640/origin-of-the-term-country-mile