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I Am Not A Role Model — I’m A Roll Model
I was reading the latest Phillymag yesterday, and on the letters page there’s one from several former Inquirer copy editors, disputing things Brian Tierney said in a previous issue of the magazine. “Hmm,” I thought. “I wonder if the paper really did need all those copy editors.” Consider this above headline the answer. (And to those who might defend it as a pun, since, uh, people eat rolls and Shrek is fat or whatever, that’s even worse, since it’s a pun that most people would just see as a typo. I’m not even going to touch the point of why there’s an editorial about Shrek.) Editorial | Shrek and children’s diets [Inquirer] |
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um, definitely a pun — “roll model” as in rolls of fat, being modeled on a hero. no?
Isn’t that WAY too much of a stretch? I dunno.
I still feel like a pun headline has to be somewhat obvious, or idiots like me won’t get it and think the paper looks stupid.