Reminds me of the time American basketball player Wayne ‘Tree’ Rollins bit – yes, bit – his opponent Danny Ainge, leading to the equally irresistible headline: “Tree bites man”
Yes. But I would have preferred to have written an even better headline without the lame, non-headlinly verb ‘are’ stuck in the middle. Perhaps he/she/it was concerned with filling the space.
It would scan better as:
“Fake hookers kill wrestling midgets “
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July 3rd, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Reminds me of the time American basketball player Wayne ‘Tree’ Rollins bit – yes, bit – his opponent Danny Ainge, leading to the equally irresistible headline: “Tree bites man”
July 3rd, 2009 at 4:51 pm
We are thinking alike. I saw this yesterday and had precisely the same thought. What a classic.
July 7th, 2009 at 5:09 am
Yes. But I would have preferred to have written an even better headline without the lame, non-headlinly verb ‘are’ stuck in the middle. Perhaps he/she/it was concerned with filling the space.
It would scan better as:
“Fake hookers kill wrestling midgets “
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