[net.nlang] Interesting newspaper article

minow (12/22/82)

The following was sent to an internal Dec mailing list by a British
correspondent:

Here's a Classic for the Newspaper Headlines series:

This was on the front page of the DAILY MIRROR (a national tabloid paper)
here in the UK on Thursday, 16th December:

	            "ELTON'S FLYING STOOL HITS FAN"

It actually refers to an incident at a concert Elton John was giving.
His drummer (Nigel Olsen?) had failed to turn up so Elton got in a huff.
He'd had enough half way through 'Bennie and the Jets' so he got up from
his piano, kicked his stool away and walked off the stage in a temper.
Unfortunately, the stool hit a female fan in the front row. 

(Hope the alternative meaning isn't lost in American English!)