This Just In From The Unintentionally Hilarious Headline Department
Presented for your delectation by the Hired Hand at 3:29 PM
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."
--Archilochus
Glenn Reynolds:
"Heh."
Barack Obama:
"Impossible to transcend."
Albert A. Gore, Jr.:"An incontinent brute."
Rev. Jeremiah Wright:"God damn the Gentleman Farmer."
Friends of GF's Sons:"Is that really your dad?"
Kickball Girl:"Keeping 'em alive until 7:45."
Hired Hand:"I think . . . we forgot the pheasant."
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Comments on "This Just In From The Unintentionally Hilarious Headline Department"
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Gentleman Farmer said ... (4:17 PM) :
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Anonymous said ... (6:06 PM) :
post a commentYou know, some of us who are (shall we say) "over 50," don't find references to "colon abuse" particularly amusing. No, we do not.
And the first line of the story is pretty ominous, as well: "Since Bartolo Colon's body is not telling him anything is wrong, his next course of action is to review videotape to see why he was thumped by the New York Yankees on Sunday . . . ."
I'd think that after being "thumped by the Yankees" your body would tell you something.
"Unintentionally" hilarious? I have my doubts. A baseball player with a name like Colon is something that headline writers live for. If you want to check out some great flubs in newspaper headlines and captions, check out the classic books Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge and Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim. One of my favorites was the headline for the story explaining the change in Utah law that made the firing squad the sole form of execution in that State. Previously, condemned convicts had the choice between firing squad and hanging. The headline read: All Utah Condemned to Face Firing Squad.