ford to city: drop dead

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: I think that was the Daily News?

Axis of Weasel got some attention. Though Bimbo Summit was probably the funniest one.

What about the "Axis of Weasels" for the U.N. - that involved Photoshop.

what about stab baby?

@cassandra: Jinx!

now THAT'S what i call SYNERGY

I gotta say: they TOOOTALLY dropped the ball on the Spitzer thing. Headline-wise, anyway.

@cassandra: woops, wrong tab

The editor who coined the brilliant nickname, "Jacko," should get a $1 million bonus.

@VoxPopuli: everyone loves the classics!

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: but you were in the right spirit. I think it was back when the daily news was actually more interesting than the post and less like what it is now, which is basically Newsday for urban-bound cops, Catholics and civil servants.

@Dickdogfood: Yeah, really. Our stuff was much better. Some of it was even safe for regular audiences.

'Ford to City; Drop Dead'= Daily News

Yeah, let's focus on the witty headlines and not on the news itself -- that's way more boring...

Best Post Headline of all time occured after a patient at Bellvue sexually assaulted a nurse before escaping. next day's headline; 'Nut Screws and Bolts'

@MrInBetween: I think the Brits came up with that one, but I don't know specifics.

Gross Post Coasts on Headline Boasts

or, Headline Oddities in Newsless Tab

Still, no one has equalled the majesty of Sticks Nix Hicks Flix.

@cassandra: lol. thnx. newsday used 2 b more inneresting 2

panda eats, shoots and leaves

"Dippy Hippy Bang Bang" which was of course about the murder at that sex commune on Staten Island a couple of years ago. I laughed at that for days.

Also, while not technically a headline, back when North Korea was threatening to test their missile, the Post ran it on the front page... but instead of using an actual picture of Kim Jong Il, they rather brilliantly used a picture of his puppet character from 'Team America'. It was just too funny for words.

I wish I could stick around for this, but the sun has gone over the yardarm here in Sodom-by-the-Sea and I must attend. Bai.

Ike Beats Tina To Death.

@EddieTheDane: that is really good. at least the post recognizes that people buy the newspapers for the headlines rather than the news itself. that's something i would be celebrating if i were rupert

@4_Chan!!!!!11!one: Once the Post had a story about Bob Iger waiting for Mike Eisner's career to croak. They headlined it "Crouching Iger, Hidden Dragon."

"Oh What A Feeling"
Re: execs from Toyota caught in sexual harassment/fondling scandal

Runner up:
"Curse of the Bimbino"
Re: A-Rod plays his first game at Fenway after getting caught cheating with a blonde, Red Sox fans come out in droves wearing blondie masks (Yanks won anyway)

Something tells me KERRY'S CHOICE from July 2004 won't be included.

BAD LAY, Enron's Kenny Boy Guilty, Faces 165 Years

I can't shake the feeling that "You Have to Hand It to Them" won't make the list.

Back in '85, weren't they the one's who were going to use "Klaus the Louse Heads for Big House" if Klaus von Bulow had been FINALLY convicted?

@wretched_of_the_mirth: ::sniffle::

This isn't from The Post and it's from teh sportee pages but what the hell:

"Kansas City to get a taste of Angels' Colon"

@Ian Spiegelman: You're making things worse: Whatever you go sniffle in (whether you're familiar with handkerchieves or not), you really shouldn't "hand it to them."

What's with the blogger trying to outcomment the commenters anyways?

@wretched_of_the_mirth: Communicating with people, even in this fashion, is fun. Should I just post stuff and then pretend there's not a comment thread? Also, I've never blogged before, so if there's some kind taboo against the blogger commenting, I just don't know about it.

@Ian Spiegelman: "Taboo" made me giggle. Or the idea of there being such a thing in a comment column. And hell no, I wasn't chastising! We're all too clearly overjoyed by your camaraderie! I would say you are this weekend's Ms. Dupré, but that could be taken the wrong way...

@wretched_of_the_mirth: I've been writing forever, it feels like, but this is the first time I've ever had instant feedback. It's a whole new experience. And I don't know what kind of person can watch a conversation take place and not dive in, but it's certainly not me. The same drive that makes the commenters shoot remarks at each other is the same thing that makes me do it. And, I've been commenting here for a while. It would be crazy to stop just because I'm also posting items.

@Ian Spiegelman: It just makes you look easy, that's all.

I almost forgot - When Bill Clinton's portrait was being put up in the White House the headline was "Well Hung."
More than I wanted to know, really.

I liked "The Luv Guv."

@raincoaster: Okay. From now on I will be cold and aloof. I will ignore all comments, have no fun, not join the conversation, and just be stern and editor-like. But I don't have Graydon Carter's fat, stupid head, tin ear, or ability to believe despite all evidence to the contrary that I matter enough to make some arbitrary pronouncement from on high so stupid and groundless that my own readers call bullshit on me and then just ignore it as prattle... So you see, the executive mode as it's been carved out doesn't really suit me.

I was fond of "Frenzy: Iranians Beat Themselves with Whips & Chains." I think a Shia holiday was taken the wrong way but still...

best NY POST COVER ever: KADAFFI GOES DAFFY: Really a Transvestite! with pix of the Libyan dictator with a curly wig and earrings. the very height of trash tabloid NY news. i guess that was back in early 80s. along with LOTTO FEVER headlines.

@veeelchop: Yes! I remember that one. Thank you for reminding me of something I want to remember!

@Ian Spiegelman: This is Gawker! Who said being easy was a bad thing?

@Ian Spiegelman: Don't ever go away. Whatever you're doing, it's working.

Look at your page views! You are a man of the people!

@raincoaster:

@cassandra:

I'll stick around as long as I am wanted. I really like it here.

I've long aspired to moonlight as a NY Post headline writer. This is why.

@EddieTheDane: someone from Daily Show moonlighting at NY Post.

@eatsshootsleaves: sublime double entendre

@eatsshootsleaves:
Yes. It would have been their best ever if they'd ejected the unnecessary irony-establishing quotes.

'Old Dead Bastard'

The one about the gay mobster..."Fairy Godfather"

I can't believe they left out the headline about Marv Albert's suspension for cross-dressing and escort maltreatment:

MARV GETS PINK SLIP