Let’s have a vote. Which is more surreal:

“Wisconsin Man Runs Over, Eats Seven-Legged Transgendered Deer,” or “World’s Tallest Man Saves Plastic Eating Dolphins“?

Boy, the copy editors must have had a blast with those.

That last one is kind of ambiguous. I think that “plastic eating” should be hyphenated. As written, one could interpret it as the man was saving plastic while it was eating dolphins, or that he was saving plastic while he was eating dolphins. Neither of which is the actual story.

I used to have an hilarious book of journalism bloopers, including miswritten headlines. The book’s title was “Milk Drinkers Turn To Powder.” It included the classic from the Jimmy Carter era, on one of his speeches: “More Mush From The Wimp.”