May
15
Headline Hunter
Smart comebacks to stupid news headlines.
May
10
Paul Templer, River Guide Swallowed By Hippo, Retells Harrowing Near-Death Experience
from Huffington Post
You missed a perfectly good opportunity to use “Hungry, Hungry Hippo” in a headline right there.
“The master copies of all the shows and movies available to Netflix take up 3.14 petabytes of storage space.”
Or one pi-tabyte.
Apr
30
Indian stuntman who used his hair to descend zip wire killed in freak accident
from The Telegraph
I don’t think you’re allowed to call it a freak accident if it was done on purpose.
Apr
19
Did Media Botch the Boston Bombing?
from U.S. News and World Report
Did U.S. News and World Report somehow exempt themselves from being members of the media?
Apr
17
Margaret Thatcher's funeral had no real hatred, no real love and no real grief
from The Daily Mirror
I guess there’s no real story here, then, innit?
Is eBay the New Amazon on Wall Street?
from The Motley Fool
Well, eBay is actually making money … so no.
Price of Gold Takes a Flashy Fall
from The New York Times
As does my respect for The New York Times.
Apr
6
Holy Crap, Is This Mark Zuckerberg's Embarrassing Childhood Angelfire Website?
from Gizmodo
Holy crap, is this news?
Apr
3
Why did 28,000 rivers in China suddenly disappear?
from The Verge
Because you’re not using the words “suddenly” or “disappear” correctly?
Syria’s Bashar Assad Vows To Wipe Out ‘Forces Of Darkness’
from Huffington Post
It’s hard to take this seriously from a guy who is growing a Hitler mustache. And … you know … slaughtering his own people.
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