Worst titles of 2007
Listed chronologically:
“Hoosier daddy?” (6 January)
“Dead man hawking” (16 January)
“May I have this Dansk?” (17 January)
“Just a Falcon minute” (6 February)
“Dugong show” (25 February)
“When the levy brakes” (17 March)
“Downholstery” (1 April)
“Nothing could be finer than the feeling of angina” (21 April)
“Philately will get you nowhere” (1 May)
“Bjørn under a bad sign” (6 May)
“The pained, it’s plain, look vainly at the mains” (2 June)
“Hot funds in the summertime” (19 June)
“La belle dame sans culottes” (19 July)
“Jeep thrills” (29 July)
“Something Wiki this way comes” (17 August)
“Icahn has cheezburger?” (16 September)
“Tanks for the maladies” (22 October)
“N2 the mystic” (31 October)
“Got the Mercedes bends” (4 November)
“Living in debasement” (6 November)
“And just ice for all” (9 December)
(Total number of 2007 posts: 2,021. Some marginally-acceptable turns of phrase are recounted here.)
Winston »
1 January 2008 · 7:19 am
Your mastery of plays on words and sounds is unsurpassed on your block of Ok City, CG…
My vote for best of the worst is firmly lodged between “Dead man hawking” and “And just ice for all”… All are brilliant, but those two shine loudest for me…
Best of everything in the New Year, CG!
hatless in hattiesburg »
1 January 2008 · 12:01 pm
the only truly “worst title” of the batch is the title of this post itself. these are the best of the best. dustbury is to cleverly turned but entirely apt titles as:
1) instapundit is to “heh, indeed”
2) bill whittle is to time between posts
3) lileks is to volume of content
4) the kos kidz are to incoherent rants
5) all of the above
keep up the good work!
oldgrouch.mee.nu »
1 January 2008 · 9:13 pm
When perfection is your standard…
Then C.G. Hill came out with a new year’s list of his “bad post titles.” Now I’ve always assumed that the excellence of a pun is directly proportional to its groan-a-tude. So I hope he’s being at least slightly tongue-in-cheek. ‘Cause if those are h…