Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh
It's technically possible, I guess, to write a worse hurricane hed than this one. But why bother when the bar has been set so high?Please don't do this. If you see a friend hunched over a computer and writing "Hello, Dolly," just go ahead and call the brain police.
Testy Copy Editors has hosted a long crusade against "Hello, Dalai," "Hello, Dali" and the like, and colleagues there have already sighted "Hello, Dolly" in newspaper storm coverage. In that spirit, what can we add but: No more "Hello," or ... got it?
posted by fev at 3:25 PM
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I saw "A Kat-astropic storm" as a 1A banner the day after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. It was on a tiny daily out of Northwestern Ohio. I swear I did not hallucinate this.
The worst part about "Hello, Dali" is that his name is pronounced dah-LEE, emphasis (and accent) on the 2nd syllable, as any good Poynter fellow who took the docent tour would know. . .
But yeah. Any time I hear someone trying to write a pun hed in connection with a storm, no matter how far or how miniscule, I bust out the 2-by-4. Hacksaw Jim Duggan style.
Way back in my first newspaper job, the rag one town over (Durham, if you have to know)once hedded a hurricane tale thus:
FLORIDIANS ALERTED
TO EYE LUSTY FRED
I still have that in a folder somewhere, I hope.
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