Hello and welcome to the first greenlit voting thread for Fark's Headline of the Year contest for 2011. We've collected the best headlines from each month and let the Totalfarkers vote on their favorites. These are the 10 best headlines from December 2010 and January and February from this year as voted. I spoke with Drew last year about resolving the issue with December headlines getting screwed. Most Farkers preferred the option of moving to January, but Drew felt that the contest should stay in December.

Now it's up to you: vote on your favorites, and the top five from this contest will make it to the final round next week. There will also be a contest for each of the biggest subtabs next week: sports, showbiz, geek, politics and business. The week after that we will have the voting threads for pun/wordplay headlines and the Context headline of the year (where the headline isn't funny on its own but is awesome in relation to the linked article).

There are also some that you might not see here because either: 1) they've been moved to a separate contest, or 2) they didn't make it out of the voting threads in Totalfark. I'll link the redlit TF voting threads later on in this thread.

Please don't enable voting; the finalists for this period are set. Nothing wrong with sharing a favorite headline from this period, as long as you don't enable voting for it.

So enjoy these and vote for the ones you like.

That last one is eerily relevant.

Headline of the Year candidate: Holocaust historian not happy that Glenn Beck keeps comparing political opponents to Nazis, Anne Frankly she's not going to take it anymore

Gods help me, but an Anne Frank pun gets me every damn time.

Headline of the Year candidate: British terror alert status upgraded to "What's all this, then?"

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=5870453

My favourite. More funny than punny.

Headline of the Year candidate: Ancient fortress in Tel Aviv home to ancient lesbian urn. What's an ancient lesbian urn? About three drachmas an hour

http://www.fark.com/comments/5859744

That tickles me in a way where, if Loretta were to tickle me that way, I'd say, "Oh... yeah, that's it... that's the spot."

Why can't we vote until this goes green? Annoying.

DamnYankees: Why can't we vote until this goes green? Annoying.

Eleven more minutes, buddy

the herring loss one made me lol the most, i have to admit.

FlashHarry: the herring loss one made me lol the most, i have to admit.

that headline should have been Redlit. It was just thrown in there to get people on the wrong track

Baby Jesus had some hand damage when recovered, almost as if he had been nailed down.

Nexzus: I shamelessly stole the Baby Jesus one for a facebook status update at the time. More than a few negative remarks.

Too soon?

mrshowrules: FlashHarry: the herring loss one made me lol the most, i have to admit.

that headline should have been Redlit. It was just thrown in there to get people on the wrong track

what you did there, i see it.