Headline Goes Here

If I were young and could start over with my collections, one thing I would keep are all the examples I see of "dummy" display text that goes to print. A favorite one I recall from the 1980s was in the Washington Post obituaries; the headline read something like "Slug Goes Here for the Dead Guy."

This recent example from the Guardian isn't nearly so bad, but I love it anyway:


Seeing oversights like this makes me happy in some unexplainable way. Schadenfreude, I suppose, but I'm much more sympathetic than that implies. I am. Really.

Maybe the Germans need to come up with a new word that means "commiserating while also seeing the humor in it."

Via Twitter user @jamiecraven.

Here's a past post of mine sharing a fine local example.