This, my friends, is classic journalism. Girl finds two-headed toad, and newspaper decides to write about it. “The two amphibians are conjoined, un-identical twins,” the paper claims.
Then, three days later, it runs a correction: Oh, sorry, those toads were just having sex, that’s all.
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23 April | 14:47 | christy
Gross.
23 April | 14:49 | josh
Christy, it disturbs me that you find the sexual process so gross. It's nature!
23 April | 15:48 | Sarah
That's classic journalism, all right. How funny!
23 April | 18:44 | Maud
My favorite line (from the retraction story): "So the mutation debated in this case is settled, but two-headed creatures can exist."
29 April | 19:04 | JessaJune
in other words, a simple variation on the beast with 2 backs.
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