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Today is one of those days where I wish I could be a reporter if only to be able to write a headline like the one on this article.
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Today is one of those days where I wish I could be a reporter if only to be able to write a headline like the one on this article.
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Then what you want to be is an editor. Unless it's lowly intarweb reporting like I do, reporters rarely if ever write their own headlines. Editing is a joyless task -- I suspect writing heds is one of their few creative joys in life.
The secret to a really good headline is alliteration, though:
COURT CUFFS SIZEMORE FOR COUNTERFEIT COCK
or
TOM FAILS PHYSICAL WITH FAKE PHALLUS
or
PROSTHETIC PENIS, PRETEND PEE PUT SIZEMORE IN POKEY
I really need some new hobbies.
Posted by: flargh | February 12, 2005 08:27 AM
There's a joke in all of this someplace about Sizemore/more size, but mercifully, I can't think of it right now.
Posted by: Nathan Strum | February 13, 2005 08:06 AM
When I worked at Dow Jones Reuters as an online journalist, I never had the opportunity to write copy such as this!
Posted by: John Hood | February 14, 2005 03:01 PM