Great CNN headlines of the moment
CNN.com has a nice collection of Boing Boing-esque headlines on the front page right now:
• Woman reunited with monkeyAnd my favorite:
• 5-year-old kills 445 pound bear
• DUI chain gang wears pink
• Pole dancers ride the rails
• Lizard spit and bongs
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this is what i'm missing riding cabs? for this i wouldn't mind the fare hike so much.
Figures they'd change it as CNN often does for updating stories, but someone mentioned a particularly awkward one from this morning on a site I visit:
"Ice storm glazes nation's midsection"
Ew.
I'm not sure what this speaks more ill of: CNN or Boing Boing.
Lizard spit and bongs
LOL WUT?
*reads article
Gila monster saliva? Must've been a lot of work to neutralize that.
I should probably be embarassed that this Google headline made me giggle like a schoolgirl. I'm not.
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I thought the 5 year old killed the bear with his bare hands.
Anyone can shoot a bear.
Man, that 5-year killing old bear thing was more disturbing than anything I've seen here on boing-boing... just on a gut level, very off-putting. Worse than 2 girls 1 cup.
Don't know what it was about it, just seemed so... egh.
Yes, lets all chortle about the crapification of the news media. Big laughs! No risk!
It doesn't update as often as it used to, but I recommend WTF CNN? for more headline-spotting fun without the pain of actually reading CNN.
The pole dancers were funny, but did anyone check out the traffic cop from Rhode Island? He really likes his job! I just hope no idiot decides that He is not directing traffic in an appropriate manner.
From an English newspaper, Nov 2004:
MAN CAUGHT BOFFING SHEEP IN
NATIVITY SCENE FINALLY GETS OFF
I'm with #8. Can't say I'm a fan of teaching young children to kill animals and celebrating the slaying like its some sort of great accomplishment. Bleh.
"Boing Boing-esque"? In CNN's dreams. Boing Boing Lite is a stretch. The Most Trusted Name in Supermarket Checkout Line Tabloid Exploitation.
Davy Crockett "…killed him a b'ar when he was only three", a claim driven by the requirement that the age rhyme with Tennessee, free, and tree.
A few months back I actually saw a CNN headline, on-air, that read:
SEX WITH A VAMPIRE: She bit him, drank his blood
On-screen, they had an artist's mock-up of a lady with fangs and a mean expression. I wasn't sure which was worse, the whole vampire angle, or the fact that a woman biting a date somewhere in the world was somehow newsworthy.