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Bumfketeer	Post subject: Bad hed of the day Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2002 12:10 am
Joined: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 3557 Location: Cusp of retirement, grave or both	Lede a1 hed on one of the other local dailies:<p>Story is about the Turkey Trot, a Thanksgiving Day foot race that usually includes a bit of revelry, fun and general assholishness. I run it every year, probably for the last of those reasons.<p>This year, a guy collapsed dead right before the finish line. So the hed in that local daily, lede on the front page:<p>Man's death dampens Turkey Trot<p>great, huh?
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: Bad hed of the day Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2002 1:11 am
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	<blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica ,sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Bumfketeer: Lede a1 hed on one of the other local dailies:<p>Story is about the Turkey Trot, a Thanksgiving Day foot race that usually includes a bit of revelry, fun and general assholishness. I run it every year, probably for the last of those reasons.<p>This year, a guy collapsed dead right before the finish line. So the hed in that local daily, lede on the front page:<p>Man's death dampens Turkey Trot<p>great, huh?<hr></blockquote><p>Let's not be shy:<p>Man's death dampens Turkey Trot By: Shawn Charniga, The [Troy, N.Y.] Record November 29, 2002 TROY - The annual Turkey Trot was marred Thursday when a 60-year-old man died while running in the 39th annual race at about 11 a.m. <p>***Marred!***
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Finn DeSiecle	Post subject: Re: Bad hed of the day Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2002 1:26 am
Joined: Mon Apr 29, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 76 Location: NJ	An A1 lede hed this year at one of our sister papers (2nd-day story about a nutcase shooting several of his neighbors):<p>6 dead; life goes on
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Bolder1	Post subject: Re: Bad hed of the day Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 9:13 pm
Joined: Tue Nov 19, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 71 Location: New York	<blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica ,sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Bumfketeer: Lede a1 hed on one of the other local dailies:<p>Story is about the Turkey Trot, a Thanksgiving Day foot race that usually includes a bit of revelry, fun and general assholishness. I run it every year, probably for the last of those reasons.<p>This year, a guy collapsed dead right before the finish line. So the hed in that local daily, lede on the front page:<p>Man's death dampens Turkey Trot<p>great, huh?<hr></blockquote><p>Man, that made my day! Thanks. <p>But they got it wrong. Shouldn't it have been, in the time-tested tradition: "Man's death fails to dampen Turkey Trot"?<p>Don't they know that "dampen" is ALWAYS modified by "fails to"?
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