Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Fine Lines: The rapture and the Philadelphia Daily News

Fine Lines takes a look at headlines from the tabloids. Not the supermarket rags, but real newspapers, such as the Boston Herald and the New York Post, that serve up the news with a touch of brass. A clever or pointed tabloid headline is a thing of beauty (or at least a heck of a lot of fun), especially if it involves wit and wordplay.

You've probably heard by now that the world will come to an end on Saturday, so you may as well cancel that trip to Home Depot and hold off on paying that overdue electric bill. But it looks like those heathens at the Philadelphia Daily News are a bit skeptical. They've got a "rapture preview" on page 3 and the newspaper's cover shows an abandoned pooch at the bottom of the stairway to heaven.

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