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Scottish Penguins Do Bad Thing

Good morning! "PANDA fans are kicking up a stink — because they're being bombarded by PENGUIN POO. Visitors queuing to see star attractions Sweetie and Sunshine at Edinburgh Zoo are being pelted by the smelly droppings.... A 41-year-old visitor told us: 'We were queuing to see the pandas when a man in front shouted — he'd been hit by a big dollop of poo. It was disgusting.'"

How To Read Headlines

Remember Beattie's Law: "If there’s a question mark in the headline the answer is either (tabloid) 'no' or (broadsheet) 'who cares?'"

Hollywood Release Schedule Now Predicting Future Headlines

Tom Cruise perfected the practice back in 2006 when he suddenly fell in love and got married just as his film, Mission Impossible 3, about a spy who falls in love and gets married, hit screens. Now, Russian spies are captured and deported just weeks before the release of Aneglina Jolie's film Salt, about a Russian spy. Meanwhile, Mel Gibson goes off the rails just a month or so before the release of his film, The Beaver, about a guy going off the rails. READ MORE

Are You Ready To See The World's Most Offensive Headline?

This is very wrong. READ MORE

Get Your Twitter Titles While They Last

New York runs a story today by Awl pal Doree Shafrir about the "new generation of tech entrepreneurs in the city" who are "trying to overthrow old media and build a better New York." Naturally the piece is headlined "Tweet Tweet Bang Bang," a reference to the San Francisco-based Twitter. This is probably because most journalists only know two emerging tech companies, and "Foursquare" makes for lousy punning. Not satisfied with taking just one Twitter headline off the table, New York doubles up, referring to the story on the cover as "Life Is Tweet." As a service to those of our friends in the media who are desperate to sex up a story with a headline featuring some variation of Twitter in its title, we've compiled a brief list of what's already been taken, and a shorter selection of what's still available. HURRY. READ MORE

How Not to Write a Headline

Tom Scocca: Here is a headline from Sunday's Washington Post: READ MORE

WSJ headline inspires childish post

Irony or justice? Or just me being juvenile again?