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The best thing about Fark is definitely its headlines, which is why the site’s Headline of the Year contest is so darn fun -especially the one in the Geek tab.
While you can click over to the site to find your own favorite and to see the winner, I personally like “Gene fights cancer, but also causes cancer. What the hell is your problem, Gene?”
Can you tell a real news headline from one made up by the satirical website The Onion? It’s not as easy as you might think, but that’s the challenge of this quiz from mental_floss. You might remember some of these headlines, but you need to remember how true they are. I knew them all, but it’s my business to know weird news stories. I want to see how well you do! Link
So maybe “mercury in the Arctic” doesn’t make you think of the ghost of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury hovering around an igloo. But someone over at F*ck Yeah Headlines has a weird sense of humor, and turns normal-seeming article titles into these silly cartoons. There are lots more (this is my favorite) over on Tumbler. Link | via Flavorwire
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This headline shows why it is so important for journalists to read their work before submitting it in order to make sure it comes out right. That or else these really were some incredibly hip microbes.
In the days before the internet (actually 1912-1963), Bostonians could get news headlines at a glance by dropping by the storefront office of The Boston Globe. Handwritten signs and blackboards had the top stories, breaking news, and even sports stats in big print as fast as they were available. And of course, if you wanted to read more, you could buy a paper. Shown here is the big map of Europe installed for the D-Day invasion in 1944. See more pictures of the hand-lettered “homepage” at The Boston Globe. Link -via Metafilter
This headline is from last Friday’s Christian Science Monitor. So irritating monkeys is a field of study? What are the undergraduate prerequisites? Should Neatorama keep a monkey-irritator on staff, or contract out the work?
Here’s a blog that consists of newspaper headlines that appeared in comic books. The lack of context makes them funnier than they were ever intended to be! Link -via Metafilter
“Crash Blossoms” are ambiguous headlines that can be quite funny. They result from the space-saving technique of leaving out articles, conjunctions, and sometimes even verbs.
For years, there was no good name for these double-take headlines. Last August, however, one emerged in the Testy Copy Editors online discussion forum. Mike O’Connell, an American editor based in Sapporo, Japan, spotted the headline “Violinist Linked to JAL Crash Blossoms” and wondered, “What’s a crash blossom?” (The article, from the newspaper Japan Today, described the successful musical career of Diana Yukawa, whose father died in a 1985 Japan Airlines plane crash.) Another participant in the forum, Dan Bloom, suggested that “crash blossoms” could be used as a label for such infelicitous headlines that encourage alternate readings, and news of the neologism quickly spread.
My favorite example from the article is “British Left Waffles on Falklands.” Link
Crash Blossoms is a blog that collects these headlines for your amusement. Link -via Metafilter
Maybe writers aren’t aware how their copy inspires a “Duh!” reaction. Or maybe they are trying to entertain us to make up for a boring story. Either way, these headlines and newspaper clips are funny enough to ensure a long life on the internet. Link
Creative Cloud has a collection of newspaper scans with the biggest headlines of the past 100 years. Here you have a chance to see the news the way people saw it on the days (or the day after, in most cases) many world-changing events happened, from the sinking of the Titanic to the election of the latest president of the United States. Link -via the Presurfer
Urlesque blog has a tribute of the funniest scanned print ads and newspaper articles that have been floating ’round the web. They’re oldies but goodies!
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