Hello and welcome to the last preliminary 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 September, October and November from 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 next week. This is the last quarterly thread, and later this week we'll have separate contests for each the subtabs: sports, showbiz, geek, politics and business, as well as the final thread, which I plan to post on Thursday. Next week we'll 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.

Check the thread below this one for the headlines that didn't quite get enough votes for consideration in this quarterfinals contest.

In case you missed the three previous quarterfinals threads from last week, here they are:

Round 1: December through February
Round 2: March through May
Round 3: June through August

Next to each one of them, like today's thread, are threads with some other great headlines that didn't quite make the cut.

Jeez there are some beautiful headlines in this batch. I had a couple in earlier months, but I can easily see HOTY coming from this set. Kudos to everybody represented here. Best of Fark indeed.

Headline of the Year candidate: Man wakes up with pants on fire, although police doubt his story

All of these are excellent, but it's the simple poetry of this one that makes it my favorite. Well done to all the magnificent subbys for being more deviously clever than I could ever dream of being.

Headline of the Year candidate: Man wakes up with pants on fire, although police doubt his story

Headline of the Year candidate: Man dies after one car swerves into the path of another on Needmore Road. They certainly did

My votes, in that order. Most are puns--excellent puns, granted, but these 2 stand out as true Fark submissions: Silly otherwise-non stories if not for the perfect headline.

/I'm not a good headline writer, but can recognize greatness.

Headline of the Year candidate: I don't like vats full of caustic lye. You paper-makers can't deny: When a guy falls down through an unsupported place into concentrated base, he gets stung

http://www.fark.com/comments/6540820

This was sheer brilliance. I'm not sure if the subby ever outed themselves but they deserve HOTY for the effort that went into this gem.

Does Norm McDonald submit to fark? Because a few of these seem to have his sense of humor about them.

All of these are good, but the Swedish Chef one made me literally laugh out loud

germ78: Does Norm McDonald submit to fark? Because a few of these seem to have his sense of humor about them.

Or so the Germans would have us believe.....

The Incredible Sexual Egg: All of these are good, but the Swedish Chef one made me literally laugh out loud

I'm with you on this one.