Johanna Faust, a mixed race Jew, prefers to publish pseudonymously. She is committed: first, to preventing war, ecological disaster, and nuclear apocalypse; last to not only fighting for personal privacy & the freedom of information, but, by representing herself as a soldier in that fight, to exhorting others to do the same. She is a poet, always. All these efforts find representation here: "ah, Mephistophelis" is so named after the last line of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, whose heretical success flouted the censor for a time.

UNINTENDED HEADLINE HUMOUR | Kuwait Times



From October 2 of last year: 


Count the ways in which the main headline, below, is funny.  


Hint: each part of speech is analogous to at least one.


Click within frame to enlarge...






 I'll get you started:




 It was meant specifically for Michael Rivero.


The quote marks are single quote marks.


The quote marks could go around other words in the headline to great effect.  Try it.


Try them around the second half of the name of the publication.


Why the quotes are around the 'worried' #1: He's dead.


Why the quotes are around the 'worried' #2: If not, he's probably got faulty information.


Why the quotes are around the 'worried' #3: If not, he's probably got better things to worry about.


Why the quotes are around the 'worried' #4: If not, he's probably happier since he switched publishers.


Why the quotes are around the 'worried' #5: If not, see #1...






Please post ideas in comments...




oh and hhh/t (hell of huge hat tip) to Corporanon, again.






Be seeing you.

3 comments:

  1. I just spoke with bin laden and he said he is actually "worried" about an ice age.
    they are such liars.

    ReplyDelete
  2. awesome post, 'bin laden worried over climate change'
    i never dreamed so many lies in one sentance was possible.
    this has got to be the kuwait version of thoose crazy american magazines that talk about oprah having babies with aliens and that kind of nonsense.

    ReplyDelete