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(FARK) Survey Fark's 2008 Headline of the Year contest, Round 2: April through June (details in thread)   (fark.com) divider line 114
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Unfreakable [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 12:40:39 PM  
Hello and welcome to Fark's Headline of the Year contest for 2008--Round 2. We've collected the best headlines from each month and let the TFers vote on the best. These are the 10 best headlines from April, May, and June of this year as voted. Now it's up to you: vote on your favorites, and the top five from this contest will make it to the final round, which we'll post next week. We posted the first HOY contest thread yesterday (http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=4107341) and we're working on getting the last few threads up by Monday. There will also be a contest for each of the biggest subtabs: sports, showbiz, geek, politics and business, plus a voting thread dedicated entirely to puns and wordplay.

Some of your favorites from April-June might not be on here. That's for two reasons. Reason 1: there were over 25,000 greenlit headlines on Fark this year--and that's just for the main page. It takes a long time to sort out the best and sometimes some really good headlines get lost in that mix. For those, I apologize. There are also some that you might not see here because they've been moved to a separate contest (puns and wordplay especially fall into this category). Reason 2 is that the headlines need to be able to stand on their own. There were some incredibly funny Fark links this year that were awesome because the headline on its own wasn't funny, until you clicked the link, then it was AWESOME. But in this contest, the people that never saw the original linked article wouldn't get it. Feel free to link to any awesome headline you like to share the love, but don't enable voting; the finalists for this period are set.

So enjoy these and vote for the ones you like. Have fun!

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 12:41:19 PM  
Woman who had phone sex with a man claims he raped her... over the phone. Man says that is impossible, he doesn't even work for Verizon

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3566733

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 12:41:57 PM  
In order to get around the ban in Germany on Hitler's manifesto, historians want to revise it so it deals less with the Aryan race and more with interior design. Book tentatively titled, "Mein Kampfy Chair"

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3571838

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 12:44:00 PM  
Gerbil causes 3-car accident; article doesn't say which gere he was in at the time

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3677674

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 12:44:35 PM  
Teacher found guilty of cramming 13 people at once into his Volvo. Paris Hilton congratulates him on breaking her record before realizing she misunderstood the statement

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3690380

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 12:45:30 PM  
Florida lawmakers pass the take-your-guns-to-work law, otherwise known as the Fark-headline-generator-act of 2008

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3526205

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 12:47:22 PM  
Fishermen narrowly escape death when 40-tonne truck crashes just two feet from their tent. Seriously, you should've seen it, a 60-tonne truck just six inches away

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3581619

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 12:48:20 PM  
A Cambridgeshire church has lost its "Spitting Vicar". The English language, however, has gained another euphemism for "Penis"

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3528061

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 12:48:57 PM  
A student surely was no quitter / He escaped from jail using Twitter / With one word he was free / There was no time to type three / For he was about to get pounded up the... well, he's free now

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3564179

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 12:49:54 PM  
Man struggling to breathe performs tracheotomy on himself with steak knife rather than waiting for help to arrive. Oh, well -- suture self

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3592917

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 12:52:10 PM  
Goldfish trained to play soccer, pretend to float upside-down at slightest contact with other players

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3583152

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 12:53:11 PM  
Church calls zombie parade blasphemous because they already had an Easter parade over a month ago

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3630087

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 12:53:58 PM  
Disagreements shake Djibouti. Shake, shake, shake. Shake, shake, shake. Shake Djibouti

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3657936

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 12:55:04 PM  
Supermom gives birth to six, runs marathon. The whistling noise was deafening

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3681775

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 12:57:17 PM  
The mentally ill can't defend themselves, according to the Supreme Court that upheld the case of Indiana v. I Swear To God I Will Kill All of You Once These Spiders Get Off Me

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3682564

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 01:01:11 PM  
Ugly-ass brown bear cubs make debut in Stockholm, immediately identify with their captors

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3535960

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 01:01:53 PM  
What exactly goes through the mind of someone who decides that the best place for a grenade they've just found is on a fire? Shrapnel, presumably

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3538869

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 01:02:56 PM  
81 percent of Americans believe U.S. is headed in the wrong direction. The other 19 percent learned to drive in Britain

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3514583

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 01:03:34 PM  
College: $40,000. Passing the bar: $30,000. Knowing the specific statute that gives you authority to issue a police officer a parking ticket: priceless

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3549494

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 01:04:26 PM  
Prince William in trouble for performing cunning stunt for his stunning... girlfriend

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3551061

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 01:06:01 PM  
Thieves steal £30,000 of handbags before escaping on mopeds, in what police believe to be an attempt to break the record for World's Least Masculine Crime

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3611534

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 01:06:52 PM  
Buried Chinese miner survives for a week by eating toilet paper and drinking his own urine. He'd be pissed if he wasn't so wiped out

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3619816

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 01:08:04 PM  
Man wearing hockey mask robs Orlando-area Piz-za-za, Hut-Hut-Hut

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3617788

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 01:10:16 PM  
Former soldier leaves internet cafe, saves cop from rioting mob, rescues man from canal, carries another guy to an ambulance, chases off two guys looting a police van, polishes giant brass balls

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3611764

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 01:10:55 PM  
Town to fight illegal ATV use with cops on ATVs. Officers reportedly anxious to sign up for town's new plan to fight underage drinking and sex

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3631944

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 01:11:31 PM  
Home for sale includes new wife. For $500K, the carpet better match the drapes

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3697786

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 01:12:07 PM  
Lost hiker found after removing her bra to signal with it. Her mood was sagging and pouty, but she got perkier as soon as her rescuers lifted and separated her from the ravine

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3685313

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 01:12:41 PM  
New York City's shrine to smoked fish celebrates its 100th birthday - to clarify, this is about an old restaurant and not Kim Cattrall

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3664936

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 01:13:16 PM  
Bee Gees threaten to reunite, despite the fact that their aging fans are no longer able to hear the frequency range in which they sing

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3690578

 
Headline of the Year candidate [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 01:15:11 PM  
Son turns his dead dad into a teapot. To be fair, his dad had always been a little short and stout

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3689619

 
Man On Fire 2008-12-27 01:27:28 PM  
man April-June really sucked.

 
Mordis 2008-12-27 01:30:34 PM  
Vote early, vote often.

 
Coronach 2008-12-27 01:32:43 PM  
Votied.

Thanks all.

 
Britney Spear's Speculum 2008-12-27 01:34:03 PM  
Man On Fire: man April-June really sucked.

April May and June are the name of my great-aunts.

 
gmupps 2008-12-27 01:39:22 PM  
Britney Spear's Speculum: Man On Fire: man April-June really sucked.

April May and June are the name of my great-aunts.

But do they suck?

 
Dalar [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 01:43:51 PM  
Hello? Teh funnay? Where'd you go? :(

/wow, one vote for me from Jan-Jun.. sad

 
Britney Spear's Speculum 2008-12-27 01:44:24 PM  
gmupps: Britney Spear's Speculum: Man On Fire: man April-June really sucked.

April May and June are the name of my great-aunts.

But do they suck?

No they're nice.

 
RadicalArcher 2008-12-27 01:44:32 PM  
I voted!
/Where's my sticker?

 
chandlet 2008-12-27 01:46:07 PM  
gmupps: Britney Spear's Speculum: Man On Fire: man April-June really sucked.

April May and June are the name of my great-aunts.

But do they suck?

He said they were great

 
gmupps 2008-12-27 01:46:37 PM  
Britney Spear's Speculum: But do they suck?

No they're nice.

Those aren't mutually exclusive.

 
Cubs567 2008-12-27 01:47:49 PM  
Voted.

/ATV headline made me lol.

 
Norad [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 01:51:01 PM  
Voted, but a whole lot of these sound forced or try waaay too hard.

 
Dead for Tax Reasons [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 01:57:56 PM  
those pretty much all sucked

 
polt8115 2008-12-27 01:59:32 PM  
You own me a wireless keyboard for Mien Kampfy chair....

 
Apache 07 [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 02:08:24 PM  
Sorry, nothing worthy of a vote :-(

 
eagles95 2008-12-27 02:09:47 PM  
voted...trying to do work.

 
SmackLT [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 02:13:36 PM  
My personal favorite: Gerbil causes 3-car accident; article doesn't say which gere he was in at the time

Well done, subby.

 
SmackLT [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 02:17:58 PM  
Pizza hut also good, but took me a sec to get the Friday the 13th joke

 
Demetrius [TotalFark] 2008-12-27 02:20:19 PM  
There are a few in there that gave me some laughs. Not nearly as bad as some would make it out to be.

 
kptchris 2008-12-27 02:26:31 PM  
awesome

 
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