Fun_People Archive
28 Apr
Re: Excerpts from BONG Bull No. 319

Date: Fri, 28 Apr 95 22:44:47 PDT
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: Re: Excerpts from BONG Bull No. 319

From: Alice Smith <a-alices@microsoft.com> (Rho)

My all-time favorite clever headline was created some years ago by a
weekend headline writer at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.  I never
knew his or her name, but I noticed that weekends were always when the
really clever headlines appeared, so in my mind this person was simply
The Mad P-I Weekend Headline Writer.

Ken Kesey was very unhappy with the changes made without his permission
to the script for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and took the
filmmakers to court to force them to take his name off the movie.  The
Mad P-I Weekend Headline Writer reported the lawsuit thus:

		ONE FILES OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST

© 1995 Peter Langston