“All but one of about 19 calves that ran through downtown Tupelo on Thursday had been captured on Friday.”
The sentence, from this story, has the virtues of leaving us wanting to know more (and even creating the possibility of a cliffhanger), while really telling us all we probably need to know.
Oh, I don’t know. I just sent you a link to one that I think trumps this one. But to be fair it’s from three days ago in Australia.
Well yes, ducky, time-disallowed though it be, I speck I’ll remember that pasta-sauce jar caper longer.
That’s not today’s best, but it’s probably the years best . I don’t think I have ever seen a sentence take three such dramatic shifts in direction– first, uh, then the pasta jar, and then the high speed police chase. What a lede sentence.
The sentence ending in “Jack Russell Terrier” had me laughing til I cried. Til I started worrying about the poor dog.
Not funny, but for Today’s Most Interesting Paragraph, here’s my candidate (so far):
The police reports in the Tupelo rag are often “curious.” A coupla weeks ago they reported an “arrest for driving with an inspired tag.” If I had been the cop, I probably woulda just let that one go.
And they think WE tawk funny?
Oz driver pulled with todger in pasta sauce jar
Continued to crack one off ‘while resisting arrest’
“The role of the Jack Russell in the incident is not noted.”