Although today is April Fool’s Day, these are not headlines from The Onion or another satiric site. They are, instead, simply very clever, unusual, or sometimes tortured headlines from actual news stories:
70,000+ Rolls of Toilet Paper Arrive for Detroit Firefighters
A Bush-League President [Headline of an Article Critical of President Obama]
A Mountain Lion in a Casino, Don’t Roulette Out
A Pot with Benefits
A Seersucker Is Born Every Minute
Aeschylated Dramatic Ironies
After “Psycho,” a Shower of Violence in Movies
Bacon Shortage Is Baloney but Prices to Rise
Bain of His Existence [On the Fallout from Mitt Romney’s Venture-Capital Firm]
Bark Park Sparks Talks [On a Proposed Park for Walking Dogs]
Beer and Loathing, “Most Interesting Man” Hosts Obama Fundraiser
Bee-ware of the Texas Beehive Bandit
Billboard, Frank Talk about Hot Dogs and Cancer
Byte-size, The Search Is Up for Online Recipes
Cain Thinks Newt’s Able
Christie Has Tightrope to Walk for 2016 Run [Quite the Mental Image There]
Civic Storm over “Tornado Tourism” in Joplin
Clinton’s Deregulation vs Obama’s Uberregulation [From a Right-Wing Blog; it makes one yearn to coin the word “uberexcessive.”]
Colorado Fire-Breather Faces Arson Charges
Dead Ringer–Dear Prudie, I Look Exactly like a Dead Man
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