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 Post subject: Bad Features Section Hed of the Week
PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 3:55 pm 
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This "art hed" appeared in our food section on a feature about cooking with mushrooms:<p>Mushroom Clout<p>What could be better than a food section pun on a nuclear explosion?


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 Post subject: Re: Bad Features Section Hed of the Week
PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 5:26 pm 
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My favorite hed in that vein (from the same newspaper) appeared about eight years ago:<p>Silence Of the Lambs


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 Post subject: Re: Bad Features Section Hed of the Week
PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 8:24 pm 
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And another you might recall, Dean:<p>On a story about the growing popularity of smaller hibachi-type grills:<p>
Big Grills Don't Fry<p>(As I recall, that won a corporate headline "award"...)


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 Post subject: Re: Bad Features Section Hed of the Week
PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 8:45 pm 
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On a story about a disabled woman who finds joy in quilting, in today's Ashland Daily Tidings:<p>Quilty pleasures


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