Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Fun With Headlines

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[edit] Fun With Headlines

Subtle ad for the website Fun with Headlines; also, the humorous examples aren't actually funny. —tregoweth 02:06, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

  • In the UK Private Eye has been printing odd newspaper clippings ever since the early 1960s, and the polymath Fritz Spiegl was also fascinated by newspaper-speak. I've no doubt that ever since there have been newspapers there have been misprints handed round for the private amusement of guests at parties. This particular website is non-notable. Also the examples are quite pathetic. I say delete. Dbiv 02:18, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. People making bad puns. About as notable as the ficus tree on my desk. [[User:Livajo|Ливай | ☺]] 04:59, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. ComCat.
  • Delete. Non-encyclopaediac. utcursch 08:57, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. --Kbh3rd 14:50, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete: Marge wins a t-shirt on the blooper patrol. It's possible to put information along these lines in typo or headline, but this is hardly a standard term for the phenomenon. Instead, it's advertising. Geogre 14:53, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. The New Yorker has been doing this sort of thing for dog's years, and the Columbia Review of Journalism has long had a page every issue reproducing garbled/odd hedes (even collecting them into a couple of books, Red Tape Holds Up Bridge and "Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim). This website is nothing special. --Calton 01:16, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete, spam wrapped in a marginal topic. Wyss 13:07, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • obviously Delete bad jokes...don't need an encyclopedia for that Carole a 18:08, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)