Life-Size Replica of Titanic To Be Assembled Late This Year

A life-size replica of the ill-fated luxury liner Titanic will be assembled in southwest China's Sichuan Province at the end of this year, it was revealed on August 5 during the second China (Sichuan) International Tourism Investment Conference in Chengdu. Link

 I was struck by two related headlines:

And

Titanic Reenactment Club Loses Another 1,300 Members

"The Onion must be pissed..."

" ...because they can't come up with anything about Donald Trump that's funnier than his real life."

Top voted Reddit comments...

Trump Tells Iowa Dairy Farmers He Has Cows 500 Times Bigger Than Theirs

“Your cows are small and scrawny, and you should be embarrassed to milk them,” said Trump, adding that each of his cows was the size of “at least” a dozen Cadillacs and had “udders that’ll make your head spin.”

Trump: "That John McCain is a real jerk. He spent all those years at the Hanoi Hilton and skipped out on the bill."
Campaign Manager: "Seriously Donald, this is the last time we're going to explain this: the Hanoi Hilton wasn't a hotel. McCain was a prisoner of war, not a customer. There was no bill!"
Trump: "Shut up! I've stayed at the Hilton. It's classy...really classy. Those Hiltons need to be paid. Them Hilton girls are the classiest women to ever live and anal bleaching, the classiest of all body bleaching, well...that isn't cheap. McCain needs to pay up."
Campaign Manager: "Again, that hotel didn't exist during the Vietnam war."
Trump: "Shutup! I'm going to make Garey Busey my Vice President."

"Satirical News Site finds man so ridiculous it can't make a funnier story"

"Donald Trump goes entire day without saying anything offensive"

The Onion could make an article about how well his candidacy is going.

Not so sharp-eyed Ex-FIFA official

Fooled by satire: Indicted Ex-FIFA official accuses U.S. of having a double standard, cites "The Onion" http://t.co/pXGRy7qLKR

— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) May 31, 2015

Get Elmore

Elmore Leonard has died of a stroke at the age of 87. I have only read one of his novels, Get Shorty, and listened to one on CD, The Switch. A favorite scene from The Switch, which I think typifies his writing style, tells of one guy waiting in the car for his friend. On the way back to the car, the friend finds a golf club. When he gets back to the car, he considers making a quip using the club, but thinks better of it because he knows his friend is expecting him to. So he just throws the club into the back seat instead.

He wrote westerns, crime novels, and the short story, Three-Ten to Yuma, which was twice make into film.  Leonard was known for his compact writing style, as this Onion obituary notes, via MadisonMan, via Althouse.

Added: Icepick finds writing tips by Leonard.