I think that the headline writers in The Sun are some of the wittiest, most intelligent writers around.
There is a debate that Dan Taylor recently highlighted which poses the question of whether the growth of RSS and short, to the point headlines signifies the death of funny "make you think a bit" headlines.
I am not a huge lover of The Sun, but their headline today was brilliant:
In fact there was another brilliant headline yesterday after the Liverpool thrashing of PSV Eindoven:
"Rollover Eindhoven."
Pure literary genius in my opinion.
They are on a roll at the moment.
A shame if puns like this were lost to banal RSS headline copy, but then I just looked at the headline for this post and it was fairly straight-forward. I tried to think of a witty headline, but maybe I'm just not that funny/punny.
Let me know if you could have come up with a better one!
Just read your Twitter and saw that you're off to Slough. I'd rather take my chances in Iran to be honest.
As for the headlines, The Sun did a beauty when Michael jackson was found not guilty - Beat It!
Posted by: Stan Lee | Thursday, 05 April 2007 at 04:02 PM
Luckily Slough got cancelled!
Was reminded of the Sun headline went England beat Holland: "Edam Busters"
Brilliant!
Posted by: Amelia | Thursday, 05 April 2007 at 11:32 PM
Or, even worse, if we're all writing for Google which really doesn't understand.
Anywau, here'sa couple of good 'uns
In Response to North Korea's nuclear test: "How do you solve a problem like Korea"
Daily Mail for same topic: "Kim Wilde"
Back to The fabulous Sun. A First Division team Caledonian Thistle (nicknamed Caley Thistle), knocked favourite Celtic out of the Scottish Cup at Celtic Park in 2000. The Sun's verdict: "SUPER CALEY GO BALLISTIC CELTIC ARE ATROCIOUS".
And how it works stateside
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headline
Posted by: Tom Hopkins | Friday, 06 April 2007 at 12:25 AM
Dead Heads? Fed Up? Unhappy Meals? Heads Up Their RSS?
Posted by: Dan | Sunday, 08 April 2007 at 12:47 AM
Paddy Pantsdown!
That was genius.
Posted by: Faris | Friday, 20 April 2007 at 11:16 AM
My Fav was a million years ago.
The independent stated "Infamous pugilist suffers unexpected reversal"
The sun ran with a dry but concise "Tyson KO'd"
Posted by: I love Lady Bloggers!! | Monday, 23 April 2007 at 05:21 PM
Hi love, recent article on Outside mag's green issue about punny headlines in daily grist on grist.com. Check it out:
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/3/19/165831/273
Found this post via psfk - well done. Cheers, xF
Posted by: freya | Tuesday, 01 May 2007 at 03:20 AM