{"id":409093,"date":"2010-03-09T19:01:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-08-grists-rejected-punny-headlines-from-the-week-of-1-march-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-03-09T19:01:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T00:01:45","slug":"grists-rejected-punny-headlines-from-the-week-of-1-march-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/409093","title":{"rendered":"Grist’s rejected punny headlines from the week of 1 March 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tby Grist <\/p>\n

If you’ve ever wondered how Grist’s famous (and mysterious) pun machine works, wonder a little less. We present you with a glimpse into its inner workings: a list of rejected punny headlines scooped up from the last week’s digital cutting room floor. Please, enjoy the witticisms and groan at the miss-icisms.<\/p>\n

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Story: James Cameron: I’m the greenest director of all time!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rejects:
Titanic balls
Titanic ego
Winner: Opening Pandora’s box office<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Story: Common weed killer chemically castrates frogs, study finds<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rejects:
Ampheminist revolution
No balls in his court
Weed whack her
You’ve got (no) male
My chemical romance
Chemical attraction
Winner: The wrong kind of chemistry<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Story: The latest musical trend is annoying the Senate into climate action<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rejects:
It’s the E.N.D. of the world as we know it
Tonight’s gonna be a good fight
I’ve gotta feeling
Face the music
Winner: Democra-peas<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Story: British scientist in climate controversy admits emails were ‘awful’<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rejects:
Hit unsend
Discard draft
But not (unl)awful?
<\/strong>Electronic disappointment
Winner: Electric slide into infamy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Story: Garden Girl TV: indoor gardening, part three<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rejects:
Hour of power tools
Start your power tool engines
Tool time
Winner: Drill baby drill<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Story: Fifteen states have polluter-driven resolutions to deny climate threat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rejects:
Dirty state of affairs
State of change
Legis-hate
Winner: Legis-hating change<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Story: Peepoo bags help the developing world take off a load<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rejects:
A quick and feces solution
Feces to fix
Dropping off the kids at the Peepool
A load of crap
Unloading excess baggage
Making the biodegrade
Peepoo de toilet
Winner: Fecal matters<\/strong>
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Story: Tech startup’s pollution detector aids enviro justice group<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rejects:
<\/strong>Drive by methane
Drive by polluting
Drive by justice
Track test
Action tracked
Breathe analyzer
Google fracks
Breath analyzer
Winner: Frackin’ busted<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Story: Is ‘Birdemic’ the best\/worst apocalyptic thriller of all time?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rejects:
There is no cure
Birds on the brain
Bird brained
Terror in the flight
Flock you
Birds of a feather flock things up
Winner: Flocked up<\/strong><\/p>\n

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by Grist If you’ve ever wondered how Grist’s famous (and mysterious) pun machine works, wonder a little less. We present you with a glimpse into its inner workings: a list of rejected punny headlines scooped up from the last week’s digital cutting room floor. Please, enjoy the witticisms and groan at the miss-icisms. Story: James […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}