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I would kill to write a headline like this…

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Midgets, hookers, wrestling: seriously – what more could a sub ask for?

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Tom Van Hout
July 3rd, 2009at 2:41 pm

Reminds me of the time American basketball player Wayne ‘Tree’ Rollins bit – yes, bit – his opponent Danny Ainge, leading to the equally irresistible headline: “Tree bites man”
Soilman
July 3rd, 2009at 4:51 pm

We are thinking alike. I saw this yesterday and had precisely the same thought. What a classic.
billbennettnz
July 7th, 2009at 5:09 am

Yes. But I would have preferred to have written an even better headline without the lame, non-headlinly verb ‘are’ stuck in the middle. Perhaps he/she/it was concerned with filling the space.

It would scan better as:

“Fake hookers kill wrestling midgets “
Freelance Unbound
July 7th, 2009at 9:30 am

Indeed: one clear advantage of online over print is that you don’t have to work within a tight page grid.

Of course then you are constrained by other factors – such as SEO. Although this one probably wins on that score too…