Top 10 Tabloid Headlines for April 2008
April is National Play with Words Month!
Actually it’s National Poetry Month but to keep the prompts relatively short and encourage people who cringe at the word poetry, it’s a whole lot more about playing with words.
Last year I introduced Kenneth Koch’s poetry warm up exercises. (You can see them all here by clicking on Poetry Warm Ups over on the right.) They’re a way of playing with words to get stuff flowing :-)
No actual poetry will be produced, though you may come up with an intriguing line that leads to a poem or a story.
For today, use the structure of the first tabloid headline and generate similar lines of the form:
Food — Noun — -ed verb
Cucumber Killer Captured
Bean Bomber Bamboozled
Anchovy Anarchist Annihilated
Top 10 Tabloid Headlines from APRIL 1998
- CUCUMBER KILLER CAPTURED! — WWN
- BEN FRANKLIN SHOCKER!He was a Founding Father, a signer of the Declaration of Independence — AND A SERIAL KILLER! — WWN
- Teens ordered to clean toilets after peeing on theater seats! — WWN
- 10 GIRAFFES HAVE HEADS TORN OFF — when zoo truck passes under low bridge — WWN
- Kitten drowned by a giant goldfish! Cat dips paw in tank & fish pulls him in! — WWN
- Exploding grapefruits kill hundreds in Argentina! — WWN
- DEAD HUBBY BURIED WITH WINNING LOTTO TICKET IN HIS POCKET Anxious wife digs up 103 corpses looking for him! — WWN
- FARMER DEVELOPS THE ELVIS CHICKEN! New birds sport slick hairdos & swivel their hips when they walk! — WWN
- Gun-totin’ Texan shoots baby kitten. . . THEN CLAIMS SELF-DEFENSE! — WWN
- VENGEFUL OLDSTER SUES DAUGHTER FOR DEAD WIFE’S ASHES . . . SO HE CAN FLUSH THEM DOWN THE TOILET! — WWN
