…TAT-tat-tat-TAT-TAT-tat-tat-TAT…
[Breaking News: from another strangely irrelevant moment in our news room…]
Editor: “Did anyone get a photo of the Coast Guard retrieving the diving mannequin that sank after its head popped off?”
Jenna: “I was there covering the boat show and got one with my camera phone.”
Editor: “Great. Let’s do a photo with a deep cutline. Any ideas on what to put?”
Me: “How about, ‘Coast Guard exercise demonstrates why it’s important to not loose your head when drowning?”
Editor: “Get out.”
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I just nearly lost it as I read that out loud! Bahahahhaha!!! Atleast the coast guard is compassionate enough to hold the poor little guy’s hand. 😀 LOL
Hahahaha! I hadn’t thought about that. Now that you pointed it out, I can’t stop looking at it. How sensitive she must be! Hahaha!
Reminds me of a story about my former father-in-law.
He was watching men dig a test well in front of his company in Arkansas. After quite some time, the men surrendered.
Foreman: Sorry sir, no sign of water.
Boss: What the hell are we going to do with a 30-foot hole?
Dad: Break it into pieces and sell them as post holes?
His boss was about as impressed as your editor.
Lol! I love that. Sounds like something my Dad would’ve said; he would’ve enjoyed that..
Were they unable to rescue the head? (Poor little diving mannequin!)
I’m pretty sure the head was OK, just on board the Coast Guard ship. At least I hope so. Otherwise, some fisherman is going to have a heart attack when he reals in what appears to be a human head some time this week.
What headline did they run? LOL!
“Diving In”
B-O-R-I-N-G, I know. I wanted to go with “Hoffa Found!”
Yeah— that’s weak.
Yours is pretty “sensational”.
The best I could come up with was — “Dummy fails to keep his head above water”. — not very good, I know — better than “Diving In” though.
How about:
“Keep a step ahead when diving.”
Better!
“Hoffa Found” would have been beautiful. Ha.
It would’ve worked if I was at the New York Post maybe.
You had the perfect headline!
Thanks, GrannyK 😉
Sort of like the annual Tokyo zoo drill where the zookeepers practice capturing an employee dressed up as an ‘animal on the loose’. One of my fav news stories each year
It sounds more like a Japanese game show.
Hahaha…..now THAT is the way I like to start my morning (pre-rasberries!!)
I hope you don’t mean with a headless mannequin…
A headless headline … I like it …
This blog isn’t called “journalism’s finest example bold letter usage” for nothing.
Your headline was better!
Thanks, Laura. Maybe if I was at the National Inquirer..
What’s with the rope? Any chance it had something to do with missing head?
Maybe he tried to hang himself before he leaped into the water…?