Bad headline !

[CajunCenturion]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/16/bee.spill.ap/index.html

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[sleipnir214]

And you know, some editor is probably really proud of that overly-cute title, too.


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[SantaMufasa]

C'mon, Cajun, you have to admire that kind of wordsmithing creativity. After all, the author could have titled it instead:

"Excessive speed stings driver and 12 million bees" or

"Driver ignores warning to 'Bee careful' "

"Dr'hiver' regrets carelessness on freeway"

"Emergency crews 'comb' accident for angry bees"

"Careless driving has Interstate 15 all 'a-buzz'"

"Driver gets himself into 'sticky' situation on I-15"

So you see, it could have been far worse.

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Mufasa
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[CajunCenturion]

==> "Careless driving has Interstate 15 all 'a-buzz'"

I like that one.

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[flapeyre]

Back when the Disney movie "101 Dalmatians" was running, one newspaper reported on the opportunities for owners of Dalmatian puppies to cash in:

Dalmatians Get Spots in Ads​

The opportunities for headline writers to create puns is limitless.

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[ESquared]

I'm probably missing something, as usual.

Is there a colloquialism, "a honey of a mess?" Help!

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[CajunCenturion]

a honey of" is the colloqualism.

Meanings can run the gamut from a big one, a special one, an extraordinary one, an exciting one, and others.

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[donbott]

bad puns give me hives

DonBott

 

[craigsboyd]

SantaMufasa,

Nicely done! I enjoyed the list you created.

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[vidru]

One of the greatest headlines I can recall from my youth had to do with the drowning death of a man from a town called Waterproof a little further down the bayou from where we lived. The headline in the paper, the Houma Daily Courier, was (and I'm not making this up):

Waterproof Man Drowns in Bayou​

-dave

 

[chessbot]

That's got to be hard!

--Chessbot

There is a level of Hell reserved for probability theorists in which every monkey that types on a typewriter produces a Shakespearean sonnet.

 

[trollacious]

In the Bloomington-Normal, Illinois area, the Daily Pantagraph often has stories about something happening to a Normal man or Normal woman. That always amused me, too, wondering why it was significant that this person was "Normal".

Lee

 

[SilentAiche]

A fictional oldie, to be sure, but I like it:

Headline about the midget psychic escapee:

[blue] Small Medium at Large[/blue]

Tim

 

[snuv]

When Caledonian Thistle beat the mighty Celtic (soccer teams in Scotland) the headline was

Super Callie Go Ballistic. Celtic are atrocious.

"If it could have gone wrong earlier and it didn't, it ultimately would have been beneficial for it to have." : Murphy's Ultimate Corollary

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Can someone post what the funny headline actually was? All I see is "page not found", which doesn't strike me as particularly funny ;o)

Thanks,
Dan

 

[CajunCenturion]

It was a news story about a truck that was transporting some 10 or 12 million bees and it had an accident spilling its cargo. It shut down the highway for several hours.

The headline was something similar to those offered by SantaMufasa, something like "Accident Shuts Down Highway, Motorists All A-Buzz" or similar.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Gotcha. I guess the driver should have bee-haved a bit more carefully on the road!

 

[ESquared]

It was something using the phrase "a honey of a mess."

 

[tsdragon]

Don't you mean the driver should have bee=hived a bit more carefully?

He got himself into a sticky situation. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)


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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.