Is A Part Of
Speaking of Headlines (which I was or wasn’t in the previous post), I’m currently part of a collective exercise on Twitter called TEAM_HEADLINE, founded by Josh Cagan, whose headline-based humor I have previously noted. In addition to me, he has several other players of his news-based games in on the conspiracy, who have thus far produced newsical amusements like…
“Iran Willing to Build New Relationship with US,” would like to take US to dinner, see how things go from there. #THZR
“Al Franken wins round in Minnesota Senate race”Who knew the Al Franken decade referred to the 10 years it will take to assume office. #THMS
“U.S. institute names 99 top ethical companies” What, they honestly couldn’t find ONE MORE ethical company?!? #THSD
and the “Obama Sees ‘Glimmers Of Hope’ In Economy” responses: Related: Lead singer of Train sees “Drops Of Jupiter” in economy. #THJC
Manufacturers of Certs see “Drop of Retsyn.” #THJC
Steven Segal sees “Glimmer Man”. #THJC
James Bond sees “Quantum of Solace.” #THJC
Makers of Alpo see “not a speck of cereal”. #THWW
Three Dog Night sees “Pieces of April”… #THWW
If Bob Hope were alive today he’d see Glimmers of Obama… #THWW
British scifi comedy fans see Rimmer of Red Dwarf. (okay, I’m losing it) #THWW
In case you didn’t already guess, #THWW is me and I lost the joke-off by a fairly large margin.
I’m proud of some of my Headline Tweets:
“Alaska’s Mount Redoubt has another large eruption” Alaskan legislature move to rename it ReEruptingNoDoubt.
“‘Bossnapping’ Becoming Common Labor Tactic in France” In the US the method of abduction and extortion is called a “Retention Bonus”
“Wells Fargo shocks market with record profit” Analysts honestly didn’t believe you could stuff that much cash in a stagecoach.
“U.S. Officials Find No Direct Ties Between Pirates and Terrorists” Links between robots and ninjas still under investigation.
“New Yorkers Often Exposed to Cigarette Smoke, Study Finds” …also Show Tunes, hot dog carts and echoes of Regis Philbin’s voice.
“Google CEO Schmidt to Address Newspaper Conference Today” followed by a Q&A session and lynching.
“Obama says perception of U.S. as ‘selfish and crass’ is wrong.” It’s more like ‘greedy and gross’…
“GM, Segway to team on experimental vehicle” Apparently it will be the first two-wheeled Hummer.
“US fighter jets chase stolen plane over 3 states.” Local news provides continuous coverage from rocket-powered newsvan.
“The Obamas pick a Portuguese water dog as First Dog” Right Wing bloggers have already challenged the dog’s constitutional eligibility.
But yesterday I may have gone too far. Not with my response to an easy line…
“Minn. surgeon needs two tries to remove appendix”
The first time he only removed the footnotes.
and
The patient, Norm Coleman, said “this isn’t what I meant by a do-over” (If you don’t get this one, you are no news-literate and I am NOT explaining it to you)
But with this gut (or below) level response to a tragic story.
“Freddie Mac CFO dead of apparent suicide”
Finally, somebody shows they’re taking this economic crisis seriously!
But seriously, weren’t we all thinking something like that?
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