Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t

Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by walterbell on Friday March 13, 2015 @09:44PM (#9201210)

NYT put their writing skills to work on wet wipe awareness

  demon snowballs
  industry representatives chafe 
  scraping the bottom clean

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by yen223 on Friday March 13, 2015 @10:54PM (#9201378)

Growing up as a kid, my dream job was to be the guy who wrote those cheesy headlines, like "Man Attacked By Crows, Fowl Play Suspected" and such. I didn't realize it is still a viable career option.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by dankohn1 on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:45PM (#9201474)

The `most celebrated Post wood [0] of all time: "Headless body in topless bar."`[1]

[0] Wood is a banner headline, because the largest handset letters were made of wood to save costs.

[1] http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2012/01/5137028/...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by yen223 on Saturday March 14, 2015 @12:23AM (#9201548)

There's a similar one, possibly apocryphal. When Michael Foot led a nuclear disarmament organization, a newspaper ran with

  "Foot Heads Arms Body"

My personal favourite: A while back, tight-rope walkers crossed the Han river in Korea. The Washington Post chose to run with

  "Skywalkers in Korea Crossed Han Solo"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by gadders on Saturday March 14, 2015 @01:05AM (#9201615)

I prefer "Book Lack in Onger".

"When I asked colleagues around the office to nominate a favourite, the one that came up most frequently was (not from the Guardian), Book lack in Ongar - on a report about a crisis in the library service in Essex. (For the benefit of English language students at the international school in Frankfurt, whose teacher asked for a glossary of headline puns, this one is a play - no pun intended - on the title of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger)."

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jan/26/books.guardianr...

Or possibly "How do you solve a problem like Korea?" from the Sun: http://btoe-images.s3.amazonaws.com/things/large/how-do-you-...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by shostack on Saturday March 14, 2015 @01:29AM (#9201640)

My favorite from the Chicago Tribute[1] re: the infamous chocolate factory...

"EPA not cuckoo for cocoa powder"

[1]http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-11-04/news/051104011...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by Evolved on Saturday March 14, 2015 @02:04AM (#9201693)

My favorite is when Jaime Sin (a Cardinal) visited Rome and the headline was, "Cardinal Sin in Rome!"

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by colechristensen on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:10PM (#9201416)

"Murder: Man Attacked by Group of Crows"

[ Parent | on HN ]