9.16.2008

Tuesday News Title Challenge!

So again, I'm going to do the weekly Tuesday News Title Challenge - what are they REALLY saying.  Gosh creativity lacks on Tuesday!  

Once again, using CNN.com homepage under "Latest News" I will tell you what I think the title sounds like, and what it probably is.

SORRY FOR THE FORMATTING ISSUES!!!!

Latest News

·         CNNMoney: Chevy Volt finally unwrapped

                  Sounds Like:  Kid gets present, and waits to unwrap it?!

Probably Is:  Launching of new car.  A volt.  What is a volt?

·         McCain says workers are economy's strength

Sounds Like:  Workers are feeding the economy, helping it lift, and making sure it gets its exercise

Probably Is:  McCain says that workers support economy.  No shit Sherlock.

·         Commentary: Dilbert guy's survey on economy

Sounds Like:  Dilbert, cartoon character, has evil Catbert do a biased and evil survey executed on the economy

Probably Is:  Dilbert, the cartoon character, has done a survey asking people about economy?

·         Ticker: McCain hammered for economy remark

Sounds Like:  McCain was TRASHED when he made that remark. |OR| Palin took a hammer to McCain when she realized what he said.

Probably Is:  McCain said something stupid – again.

·         Palin won't cooperate with 'tainted' probe 16 min

Sounds Like:  When we tried to stick it in her, she refused, because it was ‘tainted’

Probably Is:  A really really good news title.  Someone at CNN is really perverted.

·         Some find 'Obama waffles' offensive 

Sounds Like:  Obama made waffles, and somehow that’s offensive, probably because he’s A.) not a woman, and B.) black

Probably Is:  I can’t really say.

·         Castellanos: Obama needs second act 21 min

Sounds Like:  Famous Playwriter:  Obama needs to add a second act in that play of his.  There’s just no finish!

Probably Is:  Obama needs to back up all of his promises?

·         Colors shifting on CNN electoral map 

Sounds Like:  They held a séance last night, and the colors shifted….

Probably Is:  The election outcome is shifting from Democrat to Republican, or vice versa.

·         Galvestonians urged to leave 39 min

Sounds Like:  Yo, we don’t want no Galvestonians up in here!

Probably Is:  Another country is going to war…

·         Wing flaps failed in Spain crash, probe finds

Sounds Like:  Those damn birds just couldn’t flap fast enough, another probe finds the Spaniards…

Probably Is:  An airplanes wing flaps did no deploy, so the plane crashed in Spain, investigators say

·         NASA bone-loss test puts man in bed for 84 days

Sounds Like:  A test that every man wants to take, being forced to bed for 84 days, provided with “entertainment”

Probably Is:  Some scientific study, may be unethical?

·         WGCL: Students call for help from school bus

Sounds Like:  What we did everyday on the way to school.  (Memorized how to write SOS backwards so cars could see it).

Probably Is:  Tragic incident where students called for help – and they actually needed it.

·         People: Who is Miley Cyrus's new guy?

Sounds Like:  12 year-olds next gossip item

Probably Is:  12-30 year-olds next gossip item, to appear in Perez-Hilton

·         Fey not the only Palin impersonator 

Sounds Like:  Fey is not the only person who will be prosecuted for impersonating Palin

Probably Is:  There’s one other person in the U.S. that looks exactly like Palin

·         iReport.com: Your tributes to Pink Floyd

Sounds Like:  How the U.S. contributed to Pink Floyd

Probably Is:  People paying tributes to Pink Floyd

·         'Transformers' beauty: I had crush on stripper

Sounds Like:  The most beautiful transformer, used to have a crush on a stripper

Probably Is:  Another Perez-Hilton news item

·         CNN Wire: WaMu stocks slide on ‘junk’...

Sounds Like:  Their junk was just too big…(and I can’t finish this and consciously post it on an internet where a 8 year old may read it.)

Probably Is:  One of the best news titles ever.  Better than the “tainted probe”

 

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