That doesn't sound like headline grammar to me. You wouldn't introduce confusion about who is doing the shooting on purpose, I don't think.

by Pretending He Shot in Ear Again

It's sad that The Onion has had to let all their proofreaders go.

And born black. And ~~a Muslim~~ ~~a Hindoo~~ ~~an Indian~~ brown.

I would imagine that it also has to do with the family registry. If a woman marries a man, she is taken from her own Family Registry and entered in her husband's. I would imagine that upon the husband's death nothing changes for the wife, but she has the option of returning to her own family registry.

I'm not 100% sure that this is how it works, or the reason for this termination, but it seems like a valid one.

When they released that song, Paul was 20, which means he probably wrote it at 19 or 18. Not too creepy.

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Until I saw where it was from, I had absolutely no idea that this wasn't an actual news story.

but thats just me

Yes, in fact that is just you. Most other people have a firmer grip on their sanity.

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When reciting the alphabet, people would say, "...x, y, z, and per se, and".

Over time, "and per se, and" got shortened to "ampersand".

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Doing a bit more research, it looks like the melody was created as a lullaby for her daughter. Obviously they repurposed it for this song, but kept in the mentions of Maya as a kind of Easter egg.

Also, shockingly, I found that Minnie died from breast cancer at the age of 31. What a loss of a superb talent.

I think that fine documentary, "The Core", explained how to deal with this issue.