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So you think you can write a headline? Let's see if you're good enough to cut it at Fox News, where you have to write a hed using nothing but nouns before you can get your first cup of coffee!Labels: heds
posted by fev at 5:53 PM
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Uh, I had some coffee and this still doesn't make sense.
Perhaps I need a bong hit?
PS D. Evans says hello.
Ooooo. A five Noun-Noun Modification! I love these things ... in a "look how cool" sort of way. Headline material - not so much.
The mystery of the hoax about the death of a soldier in Iraq ...
How DO we know what prepositions to fill in with?
Yeah, a genuine five-pointer is rare to find in the wild. I have an eight-spot from Evans & Evans that I use in class sometimes -- Riverside Drive fire station Christmas Eve party funds, or something -- but that's kind of like birding at the zoo.
Is Don still holding down the fort on West Franklin? Tell him I said to lede with the football game.
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