# "Donations Pour In For Family Of Drowning Victims" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661 "2012-04-13T14:14:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661/41 "2012-04-16T13:44:23Z")
Olympic Curling Team Found Stoned Earthquake Victims’ Faith is Shaken Man Shot, Home Rifled ---
**Author:** ![Old\_Eel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/977dab/32.png) [@Old\_Eel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Old_Eel)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661/42 "2012-04-18T04:57:10Z")
Out of Sight Donations for the Blind ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661/43 "2012-04-25T00:17:22Z")
Oh my… [Predators Announce First-Ever Child Abuse Prevention Night](http://www.orlandopredators.com/news/predators-announce-first-ever-child-abuse-prevention-night-246.php) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661/44 "2012-04-25T00:22:42Z")
If it wasn’t real, I bet it was surreal. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661/45 "2012-04-25T01:05:12Z")
9/11 Charity Collapses ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661/46 "2012-05-31T13:06:07Z")
[Ronald Poppo, victim in South Beach cannibal attack, faces long recovery](http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/257326/19/Ronald-Poppo-victim-in-South-Beach-cannibal-attack-faces-long-recovery-) ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661/47 "2012-05-31T14:08:11Z")
Officials Identify Underground Movement of Subway Commuters ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661/48 "2012-05-31T14:33:19Z")
“Jurisprudence Fetishist Gets Off On Technicality.” ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661/49 "2012-05-31T16:56:05Z")
I assume most of you have heard of FARK? Their shtick is to re-write headlines. [COLOR=black][FONT=Trebuchet MS][Here](http://www.fark.com/comments/6821550?tt=voteresults1&startid=73713642) is their 2011 headlines of the year contest. [/FONT][/COLOR] ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661/50 "2012-06-08T16:36:50Z")
Farrier Injured in Workplace Shoeing ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661/51 "2012-07-16T12:49:14Z")
Here’s an actual one from the July 15, 2012 Washington Post sports section: “Like U-Conn on Steroids”–a quote from Geno Auriemma, coach of the U.S. women’s basketball team. Now, he’s referring to the “talent and expectations” of his team, but still. Just inches below is another article: “A Shadow of a Doubt: Olympians are scrutinized as much as celebrated thanks to drug suspicions.” ---
**Author:** ![ScarletNumber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@ScarletNumber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScarletNumber)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661/52 "2012-07-16T15:25:46Z")
Sports Headline: Air Force Shoots Down Virginia Tech ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661/53 "2012-07-17T00:48:02Z")
> [@ScarletNumber](#): > > Sports Headline: > > Air Force Shoots Down Virginia Tech Two most-common sources of punny headlines, in genres that seem to have made an art-form of it: – Sports Writers – Wall Street Journal. (and other financial writers too?) ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661/54 "2012-07-17T12:31:55Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Two most-common sources of punny headlines, in genres that seem to have made an art-form of it: > – Sports Writers > – Wall Street Journal. (and other financial writers too?) I once saw a prep school sports headline that read like the ultimate Japanese monster movie: Christ the King Destroys Gonzaga ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661/55 "2012-07-17T18:23:03Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Two most-common sources of punny headlines, in genres that seem to have made an art-form of it: > – Sports Writers > – Wall Street Journal. (and other financial writers too?) In my fathers time, Chapel Hill had a star basketball player named Peters. FYI, in the south, Peter is slang for penis. So when the guy got injured, the school paper headline read, “Team plays without Peters.” Someone must have told them to change it because the next day it said, “Team plays with Peters out.” ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661/56 "2012-08-23T17:38:27Z")
[Angry St. Louis man rams house with bulldozer.](http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/23/3774721/angry-st-louis-man-rams-house.html) St. Louis Rams, haha. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661/57 "2012-08-23T19:39:03Z")
Actual top-of-page headline in our local paper, one week after 9/11: “Muslims Prey on Friday” (they later confessed to the typo) ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661/58 "2012-08-23T21:16:29Z")
The same guy who gave the BBC iPlayer a volume control that went up to 11 must write some of their article headlines. Before it was updated, [this article](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19316754) went with the more alarming “Cancer in over 65s predicted to explode”. And [this](http://yfrog.com/mgpeqsp) is apparently from a Huffington Post article on the death of Tony Scott. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661.md?page=2)