While looking at the Wikipedia entry for one of my favourite Latin phrases, sic transit gloria mundi, I found a link to a New York Daily News story mentioning what has to be the all-time greatest headline pun that actually ever saw print. (Some of the ones in Fletch were pretty good, too, but they don’t count.)
Apparently there was a story about Gloria Vanderbilt being moved while she was quite ill, which ran under the headline “Sick Gloria in Transit: Monday”.
Man, I would have been smiling at that for a week if I had seen that headline.
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