So Many Lame Playground Openings, So Many Inappropriate Opportunities To Use This Lede . . . Until Now!

A perfect example of what John Sutter is talking about is when the big dailies take perfectly crafted ledes like this:

Not too long ago, when people spoke about swingers on the Lower West Side waterfront, they were probably referring to the gay cruising scene on the crumbling former shipping piers. But a new proposal to redevelop Pier 40 at Houston St., if successful, would bring a new kind of swinger to the waterfront — namely tights-clad trapeze artists with Cirque du Soleil, speaking a strange gibberish called Cirquish, no less.

. . . and bowdlerize them to resemble the sort of pablum the Post likes to print:

The acrobats of Cirque du Soleil are jumping at the chance to set up a permanent show on the Hudson River.

The Montreal-based circus — best known for its astonishing Las Vegas spectacles — is interested in opening a theater at Pier 40, at the western end of Houston Street in Hudson River Park, a Cirque spokeswoman said yesterday.