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[jubie]

Jayelles,

I see it more like she's smiling and holding her hands to her chest sort of doing that "Awww isn't this adorable" expression.

I hear you about how the pess can get pictures of bizarre expressions but I think this one speaks for itself. :twocents:


Of course, just my opinion
Jubie

 

[IslandGirl]

I just think it's a creepy staged pose where the ol' gal is posing for the camera. Crocodile tears and ham smiles, all the good components of Creole cookin', just add on-yons 'n' garlic, and BAM! ...you got one FAKE looking expression of ..... concern? ...Sadness? Naah, not sadness, too smiley and fake. :waitasec:

 

[Nehemiah]

I have to say that I suspect that photo was captured whilst patsy was coughing or something. The tabloid press are expert at capturing horrible expressions.

My first thought was that someone was standing behind her and telling her to look at something there on the grave, such as the angel, etc...and Patsy was ooohing and aahhing over that, not JB's grave itself. It does look like a weird pose, and I agree Jayelles, the tabloids have a way of making things look like something else.

 

[halycon]

Didn't that photo run in the Rocky Mountain News? I don't think it was a tabloid photo.

 

[RiverRat]

I changed the picture to show what Patsy was attempting to pull off at this lovely photo-op over "That Child's" grave.

Once again - I can't help but see two sides of Patsy - I'm sure that JonBenet did too.

 

[Jayelles]

Didn't that photo run in the Rocky Mountain News? I don't think it was a tabloid photo.

Possibly. I couldn't say where it came from. I'm not in the US and have no firsthand access or knowledge of newspapers/magazines.

The word "tabloid" has quite a different meaning here than in the US anyway. We don't really have an equivalent to the NE/Globe etc and we would tend to call those "weekly magazines". We use the word "tabloid" to refer to newspapers which aren't broadsheets. Traditionally, the broadsheets have been more serious/high brow than the tabloids.

 

[halycon]

Sorry but what is a broad sheet?

 

[Jayelles]

The broadsheets are the huge newspapers. The ones that make your arms ache when you are holding them up to read them! There is a terrible intellectual snobbery here in the UK about the size of a newspaper, so you'll find that "high brow" newspapers like The Times and The Independent are broadsheets. Here is the dictionary definition:-

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=9807&dict=CALD

Definition
broadsheet [Show phonetics]
noun [C] UK
a newspaper that is printed on large paper, or an advertisement printed on a large sheet of paper:
In Britain, the broadsheets are generally believed to be more serious than the tabloids.

And here is the British dictionary definition of tabloid:-

Definition
tabloid [Show phonetics]
noun [C], adjective
a type of popular newspaper with small pages which has many pictures and short simple reports:
the tabloid press
a tabloid newspaper

There are some differences in our use of language! Candy is over at Purgatory calling me a liar and a thief because I referred to "tabloid press" saying the photo wasn't in a tabloid. However, as you can see, we use the word "tabloid" in a different context here.

A tabloid is a newspaper — especially in the United Kingdom — that uses the tabloid format, which is roughly 23½ by 14¾ inches per spread. This is the smaller of two standard newspaper sizes; the larger newspapers, associated with higher-quality journalism, are called broadsheets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid_press

We don't have an equivalent to your supermarket tabloids here. Some specialist stores carry an imported version of the NE, but that's all. It's not the same copy as you get and it concentrates mainly on celebrity stories (the Ramseys are not celebrities here). When I went to Florida three years ago, I went into a store and asked for "some supermarket tabloids please" and the store assistant roared and laughed

 

[Seeker]

Jay, why bother to worry about what someone who is clearly mentally unbalanced says about you?
You don't have to defend yourself to anyone about what that particular person posts. She hates everyone. I hear she's so mean she even hates herself!

 

[Peake]

Jayelles, I had to laugh reading your supermarket tabloid story. Mr. Peake is from the U.K. and I remember being baffled quite a few times in our early years with his terminology.

Regards,
Pea

 

[halycon]

Jayelles, thank you for the explanation. Is there a fold in a broadsheet?

 

[Jayelles]

Jayelles, thank you for the explanation. Is there a fold in a broadsheet?

Do you mean as opposed to being just single sheets? If so, then yes.

 

[Blazeboy3]

I will do my best not to be a wierdo.

Ditto! Please let me know where I stand Trish as it's been awhile since I've posted (I'm raising 4 young kids with attitude + a husband LOL)...THANKS!

 

[Jayelles]

Jayelles, I had to laugh reading your supermarket tabloid story. Mr. Peake is from the U.K. and I remember being baffled quite a few times in our early years with his terminology.

Regards,
Pea

Well, my best terminology story is from years back when I first visited my brother in Canada. One day he took me aside and warned me on no uncertain terms that I was NOT to ask the shop assistant for a "poke" if I went shopping. Here, a "poke" is a paper bag.