Journal Star Headline Writer Has a Sick Sense of Humor
… or maybe it’s the layout guy … or maybe no-one notices these things besides me.
Summer Opens With Bang: Peorian shot in arm after alleged dispute.
… or maybe it’s the layout guy … or maybe no-one notices these things besides me.
Summer Opens With Bang: Peorian shot in arm after alleged dispute.
June 22nd, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Ha ha! Good catch Billy!
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Billy? What blog am I on here?
June 23rd, 2009 at 5:19 am
That’s a headline you would see in a major city newspaper like Sun-Times or NY Post, or even the Plain Dealer. I don’t see a problem with it at all. Is it untrue? Is it even humor? It’s not humor and it isn’t untrue. How many others have complained it as offensive. I think most people got it.
So are you the same guy that is Peoria Pundit?
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:32 am
I think you missed it Jimmy… it was the headline combination that was funny… not either one of them on their own.
“Canton pares list to two” also fits in with those headlines.
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:26 am
I wondered about the headline, too, especially in light of all the summer shootings that seem to happen. I was thinking it was a writer’s inside joke.
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:13 pm
I guarantee you this was not intentional. I had to look at it for a while to figure out what you were talking about.
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:37 pm
I dunno – it was pretty obvious to me – made me chuckle; but you don’t subscribe to the paper, Billy, so you probably read this stuff previously without the context of where they were placed.
Whether it was intentional or not I have no idea, but I thought the story about the thunderstorm might be better served using the word “Boom” instead of “Bang”
Thunderstorms don’t bang – guns do.
Oh – and Jimmy – remember the movie Twins…
June 26th, 2009 at 5:30 am
PI – will you be playing the role made famous by Danny DeVito or by Arnold?
June 26th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Oh, I volunteer to be DiVito, no problem.
I’ve always liked him. He is so completely full of sh*t.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
P.I. none of the photos on either site are visible