FARK headline of the year contest
January 4, 2010Jon Brooks Comments OffFark.com is a “news aggregator and an edited social networking news site. Every day Fark receives 2,000 or so news submissions from its readership, from which we hand-pick the funny and weird notable news — and not-news — of the day.”
The article headlines are re-written in a cheeky and/or satirical style. The site’s headline of the year contest, in which users picked the top 20, yielded one related to the economy: The article, from UPI, was titled “From fired to fire, bad day for Oregon man,” about a guy who’d been fired at work then came home to find his house on fire. The re-worked headline:
Man gets called into work so he can be fired, returns home to find his house on fire. Wishes he had been laid off.
Took me about five minutes to get that one.
And from 2008′s contest:
Cops looking for fake Target clerk who stole 17 grand in iPods. Store managers realized he wasn’t a real clerk when he actually helped customers
Just fyi…
