Yeah, that was 2017. Why do I have a feeling this year’s will be bigger?
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So 2017 really was pretty much a dumpster fire of badness. There were a few things, though, that made it a little more bearable. Not necessarily for the copy editors who wrote these headlines, but hey, everybody needs a laugh … or 5,000.
This is the kind of headline I wouldn’t be able to resist writing … but I’m nuts.
Image found on Crap Local News’ Twitter page.
This is one of the reasons we put attributions with a colon at the beginning of the headline at our paper. Pretty sure the foreign minister isn’t the attacker.
Image found on Imran Garda’s Twitter page.
Right now Tom Jones is rewriting “Sex Bomb.”
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Yeah, this one’s really crappy.
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No, because I did too. It’s really bad when even inanimate objects have drug problems.
Screenshot from Laura (@LNH_9)’s Twitter page.
I would think frogs would be more comfortable in the outfield catching flies.
Image found on Neill Woelk’s Twitter page.
It really shouldn’t be necessary to insert (left), but …
Image found on Pat Kiernan’s Twitter page.
I think I’ve heard this joke before.
Image found on Greg Rajan’s Twitter page.
There’s not enough fun in the coroner’s office … oh, funds? Never mind.
Image found on Lisa A. Huston’s Twitter page.
Not from this past year, but too funny to ignore this old one from my own paper (pre-merger). Some lines are just too long.
Image found on Columbia Journalism Review.
Serenity is a fuzzy belly 