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Thursday, 05 April 2007

RSS and the sad death of the pun

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:
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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!

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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!

Luckily Slough got cancelled!

Was reminded of the Sun headline went England beat Holland: "Edam Busters"

Brilliant!

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

Dead Heads? Fed Up? Unhappy Meals? Heads Up Their RSS?

Paddy Pantsdown!

That was genius.

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"

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

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