An aside on puns and headlines
While looking at the Wikipedia entry for one of my favourite Latin phrases, sic transit gloria mundi, I found a link to a New York Daily News story mentioning what has to be the all-time greatest headline pun that actually ever saw print. (Some of the ones in Fletch were pretty good, too, but they don’t count.)
Apparently there was a story about Gloria Vanderbilt being moved while she was quite ill, which ran under the headline “Sick Gloria in Transit: Monday”.
Man, I would have been smiling at that for a week if I had seen that headline.
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April 20th, 2007 at 1:45 am
That’s really clever. My favorite headline of all time — but one, alas, which I’ve only heard about — was from (allegedly) The New York Times, about the poor officials whose job was to conduct the qualifying heats for, I assume, the New York Marathon. “These Are the Souls That Time Mens’ Tries”.
But I can’t find an explicit reference to the article, and recently I’ve heard that it was really a Sports Illustrated headline. Somehow that diminishes it in my eyes, though it’s still my favorite.