Which of your phrase-turns are you most proud of?

How about this?

Talk about shooting out the lights.

The Bumbleberg Stumblebums ...

Then you get away from that clunky literally/figuratively stuff.

 

Best idea (on this topic) yet.

 

Sirs, Madames,

The best line in anything I ever put on a page was a quote from a boxing trainer.

"He is, with all due respect, a scumbag."

YHS, etc

 

Yeah, you and every other designer in the world. I saw a ton of those headlines.

But I still like it.

 

Singh, and then the rain.


Much more clever. I still like it. It sounds the same as the other when you hear it in your head, but it takes a more unexpected path. I like it.

It also accurately describes what happened, which is often overlooked in such cases.

 

Team B doesn't pose much of a threat, but just as a stingray can kill The Crocodile Hunter, Team B could surprise Team A if A lets its guard down.)

Sometimes one of these pops into my head and I know I shouldn't use it, but damned if I don't throw it into the story anyway. Some turn out okay, others fall flat and no one ever thinks they're as cute as I think they are. I tend to get too wordy. My best stuff is when each sentence pops with substance, and if the reader misses a line he will regret it. No transitions, but lots of flow. Haven't had one of those in a while, though.

 

LOL.

I've never seen either headline in a sports section... but I stipulate that my thought isn't as good.

 

I won a headline award once -- and pissed off several thin-skinned Christians -- when some dude with the last name Lord beat a Christian school on a last-second shot ...

LORD'S PRAYER SINKS GRACELAND CHRISTIAN

Man, those were some fun-ass complaint calls that day!

 

Heathen.

 

Back about a dozen years ago, when the Seminoles crushed Clemson:

Hatfield: FSU the real McCoy

 

I once wrote a headline for an AP story on post-9/11 sports - or lack thereof - in New York: "All Quiet on the Eastern Front." Was particularly proud of that one.

 

Damn baptist don't know a good headline from good wine