Silly Headline

SCIENCE WATCH; Red Moons of Uranus
NY Times, May 26, 1998

Perhaps we're getting off topic a little with boring or silly headlines, but I think that Pithy Maxims and Headlines are related by their pithiness.

We'll make headlines, kid!

BH
"Scientists in China find dinosaur with apparent feathers," is an early nominee for a Boring Headline. This appeared in The Post & Courier, Charleston, SC, March 7, 2002.

Boring Headlines
Has anyone seen a boring headline that just makes you pass over the story? Roger Kimball, writing in The Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2002, (News, Snooze, pg. A-16) gives an example which he says appeared in the London Times paper several decades ago: "Small Earthquake in Chile: Not Many Dead."

Let's be on the lookout for current contenders.

Focus
"A ritual of every American recession is that someone gets hung in the public square." Opening sentence in The Wall Street Journal editorial (March 5, 2002) against stringing up "the accountants (at Arthur Anderson) as a way of letting everyone else off the Enron hook."

The Cloud Factory is there, or so it says in The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.