READER CHALLENGE: Can you write a headline about snow that doesn’t sound as racist as the Star Tribune’s?
We’re not going to get on a high horse and say that it’s easy to write several headlines a year, year in and year out, about all the white, white snow that falls on the Twin Cities without every once in a while sounding vaguely racist. Or is it?
“This headline,” tweeted Hannah Silk Champagne (Twitpic above), “really? Such a poor choice of words in my opinion.” She subsequently challenged her followers to come up with a better headline. Here’s what’s been tweeted so far.
jesus shakes his dandruff, once more (@JayGabler)
do you know the street value of this stuff? (@solace)
next come the frogs and the locusts oh god we’re all going to die (@JayGabler)
until obama is out of office, says bachmann, it will remain always winter and never christmas (@JayGabler)
Any other suggestions?