Best lede ever

[Jackson Sundown]

Call 'em like you see 'em

http://www.dallasobserver.com/Issues/2006-10-26/news/whitt.html

 

[Ace]

Is that a typo? I honestly am not sure.

 

[Ledbetter]

I always thought of shits as dignified.

 

[joe]

That's funny. Unless you work there.

 

[Ace]

I don't know -- at least "shits" has an edgy irony to it.

Ships is just a freakin cliche.

 

[Stupid]

Given the beatdown Whitt puts on Romo and Bledsoe in the ensuing paragraphs, I'm inclined to believe there was no typo. No typo.

 

[NYTexan]

Way off topic, but I remember a gem in a Mike Royko column.

"The desk sergeant was drunk."

 

[LazyReporter]

Um, it's clever and all, but the metaphor doesn't make an ounce of sense.

How would two shits passing in the night get humiliated?

 

[greenie]

Definitely not a typo. Just lame.

http://www.dallasobserver.com/blogs/?p=1629

 

[Flash]

Intentional? Scratch that then ... worst lede ever. Anything that creates that much confusion and requires that much explanation is ... well ... crap.

 

[Bob Cook]

So he just wrote that lede for ships and giggles.

 

[Chi City 81]

The writer of this lede needs to be smacked upside the head with Whitlock's pimp hand.