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Unfreakable		2012-12-31 07:16:38 PM

The last of this year's batch, here are the puns and wordplay headlines that make you roll your eyes and groan. But people still love that low-hanging fruit. So to speak.

Warning: If puns make you stabby. Stop reading here. You have been warned.

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:17:12 PM

Ski area owner run over by nine-ton snow grooming machine is recovering nicely, feeling groovy

http://www.fark.com/comments/6791621

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:17:28 PM

Curfew-breaking teen gets stuck in chimney. California flue season officially begins

http://www.fark.com/comments/6823399

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:17:50 PM

Opera singer shot multiple times with no explanation. Sometimes it's just the wrong aria at the wrong time

http://www.fark.com/comments/7024164

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:20:08 PM

Scientists now think that the great Khmer empire in Cambodia collapsed due to a prolonged drought, and not because of immigration issues caused by too many Angkor babies as previously thought

http://www.fark.com/comments/6858652

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:20:30 PM

Kim Kardashian Whispers that she's Chaneling Liz Taylor's Cleopatra as she poses with her White Shoulders. Her Obsession is taking a Ptolemy

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Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:20:47 PM

Woman robs bank for denture money after being turned down for bridge loan

http://www.fark.com/comments/6917317

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:21:06 PM

50 P_opl_ in In_ia hav_ a_ _li_ _ for th_ jo_ of han_man

http://www.fark.com/comments/6827562

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:21:22 PM

Tennis pro Arantxa Sanchez Vicario says $60 million in career earnings are gone, alleges parents' racket took her net profit

http://www.fark.com/comments/6933719

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:25:54 PM

Rash of Baby Jesus figure thefts continues. Locals say it makes no frankincense

http://www.fark.com/comments/6843969

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:26:09 PM

Police ponder public porn problem? Pfft, proliferation protests push puritanical principles. Protecting pre-pubescent progeny praiseworthy, providing poised policy pursued

http://www.fark.com/comments/6853794

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:28:28 PM

Language arts teacher found dead in classroom causes students to be treated for post-grammatic stress disorder

http://www.fark.com/comments/7162409

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:28:48 PM

Caviar cache found in Russian morgue. Evidence being held on death roe

http://www.fark.com/comments/6853235

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:29:05 PM

Free crack pipes, free crack pipes, see how they smoke, see how they smoke, Vancouver is giving them out for free, to prevent Hepatitis and HIV, did you ever see such a sight as could be, as free crack pipes

http://www.fark.com/comments/6853330

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:29:37 PM

Vow: Allow snow plow tow now

http://www.fark.com/comments/6874838

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:29:55 PM

Thieves steal 450 miniature bottles of alcohol. Police hunt someone who is a little drunk

http://www.fark.com/comments/6896334

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:30:16 PM

Polo club founder adopts his adult girlfriend. He incests he had a good reason to

http://www.fark.com/comments/6915092

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:30:36 PM

No Cheer as Bounty runs out for for 5,700 Proctor and Gamble workers. Let's hope they can flow with the Tide and Bounce back

http://www.fark.com/comments/6959400

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:32:06 PM

Pawnshops take wine as collateral from wealthy clients. It's of case of syrah, syrah

http://www.fark.com/comments/6960279

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:32:40 PM

Beans, beans, the magical legume. Man killed under tons, while his friends tried to exhume

http://www.fark.com/comments/6998055

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:33:01 PM

The five most mathematically essential bottles of booze. Remember: Don't drink and derive

http://www.fark.com/comments/7037955

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:33:26 PM

Prison officials propose law to label masturbating inmates as sex offenders, opponents say either way it would be tossed

http://www.fark.com/comments/7075568

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:36:55 PM

Power company fined $180,000 for faulty work on houses where residents suffered electric shocks. There's no place like ohm

http://www.fark.com/comments/7088197

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:37:14 PM

Three shipwrecked fishermen survive on clams and seaweed for 10 days, by the end are a little dinghy

http://www.fark.com/comments/7114873

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:37:33 PM

Existential' man ordered to serve community service at morgue. Apparently they need another grave Heidegger

http://www.fark.com/comments/7118092

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:37:55 PM

If you've seen one tree ring dendrochronology, you've seen Yamal

http://www.fark.com/comments/7131026

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:38:16 PM

Dum-dums raid snack shop, cheez-it before the cops come, but leave mounds of wrappers behind, allowing police to sound the bugles. Will soon enjoy other prisoners' fun dips and goo-goo clusters. Nerds

http://www.fark.com/comments/7140377

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:38:36 PM

Mother-of-two disfigured by seven tumors on her face says, "Tumor would benign"

http://www.fark.com/comments/7157492

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:38:56 PM

Study finds that you can judge 90% of a stranger's personal characteristics just by looking a their shoes. It's like looking into their sole

http://www.fark.com/comments/7159209

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:39:16 PM

Desert tour guide is on pins and needles waiting for cops to catch the spineless prick who mutilated a rare crested saguaro cactus. Bonus: Tour guide's name is Nettles

http://www.fark.com/comments/7177912

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:39:33 PM

PETA names Jessica Chastain, Woody Harrelson sexiest vegetarian celebrities of 2012. I know who he is, but I've never seen herbivore

http://www.fark.com/comments/7189361

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:39:51 PM

A nuclear plant goes astray / And so it goes dark for the day / Why verse, you request? / I highly suggest / You click, and go RTFA

http://www.fark.com/comments/7220548

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:40:18 PM

Oh my cod. A famous fish-and-chips restaurant in Phoenix goes up in flames. Fortunately not a sole was hurt, but rebuilding it will be a pain in the bass

http://www.fark.com/comments/7225421

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:40:38 PM

Woman attacks her husband with a knitting needle and scissors. Seams to me it's a good thing he didn't need stitches at the end of this yarn. If you think differently, feel free to comment in the thread. Macrame

http://www.fark.com/comments/7311035

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:40:57 PM

A real son of a beech has birched the codes of a civilized society and has stolen walnut trees from federal lands. Now he pines away in jail feeling like an ash and wishing he had pecan somebody his own size

http://www.fark.com/comments/7316044

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:41:17 PM

Jazz musician killed answering his front door. Police don't think it was accidental. Sharp team of flat foots digging around will pick up the pieces in time, looking for key signature clues

http://www.fark.com/comments/7319610

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:42:29 PM

U.S. Speedskating under fire from its athletes. Allegations of being slippery with finances, skaters losing an edge after being provided with liquor, telling the gals that they are cracking the ice. The accusations just keep going round and round

http://www.fark.com/comments/7328813

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:42:48 PM

Anti-circumcision Amazon reviewers tipped off about book on AIDS, cut in with attacks on the author, having only read snippets of the book. You have been fore-warned

http://www.fark.com/comments/7345366

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:43:38 PM

DC bar owners Scrabble for a niche, roll the dice, take a Risk on board-game-themed bar. Hope they won't be Sorry. Yahtzee

http://www.fark.com/comments/7350784

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:44:36 PM

Billy Graham crumbles under pressure. Decides that Mormonism is just a kookie version of Christianity. Crust of the matter is finding the right guy for president. Cracker

http://www.fark.com/comments/7385134

Headline of the Year candidate		2012-12-31 07:44:57 PM

Six high-end coffemakers stolen in one afternoon from three Starbucks locations in Canadian city. Police have grounds to believe it was a thin, medium height dark-complected con man. A skinny grande mocha smoothie, if you will

http://www.fark.com/comments/7444212

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