Thursday, August 04, 2005
Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock 'n Roll College Dorm
The brand-spanking new Rockoff Hall was opened in downtown New Brunswick yesterday, and I know you want all the adorable details. This is what I do.
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As someone who enjoys the NY Post each day, might I suggest an alternate title: "Students get their Rock-off at new Rutgers dorm"???
sorry - that was me (TPerl)
They only get one rock off? A dorm full of testicular cancer survivors?
I prefer the Ramones reference, but then perhaps you don't want to be a pinhead no more.
Well, yes, I guess you could argue this would work better if the actual guy's name was "Rocksoff", but it's not, and I don't want to committ any kind of journalistic fraud here (or whatever you guys in the industry would call it).
Then again, too bad the dorm isn't called "potsmokingbeerdrinkingdaterapingcouldnotgetintoNYU Hall", you know, after Jim Potsmokingbeerdrinkingdaterapingcouldnotgetintonyu of Irvington, NJ.
But I always thought the cleverness of the play on words is what is important, and not how literal the resulting the phrase is - I don't think it's a stretch for anyone to mentally insert that extra "s" in there as they read such a headline. I think back to one of my favorite NY Post back pages "Mahatma Gundy" (referring to then-Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy) - my first reaction wasn't "they misspelled Ghandi and the first syllable has the wrong vowel" - I just laughed.
Of course, if you didn't laugh at my headline, then I just failed at being clever and funny, but the intent of wordplay was properly applied as far as I can tell.
all i can say is the NY Post blew their chance for a classic headline after Scott Brosius had that World Series game-winning home run back in 98(?).
they went with "GREAT SCOTT", when clearly they should've gone with, "SUPERCALAFRAGALISTICEXPIALA - BROSIUS!!!"
- chief
...or how about when they missed using "Hampton Comes Alive" after a great "comeback" game by Giants running back Rodney Hampton (in 1995 I think) that led the G-men to victory that week.
The best headlines are still found in The Onion. My favorite, all-time came just a week after 9/11, cementing the need to laugh and disregarding that moron who declared "the end or irony." That headline, for a story about the attacks:
"HOLY FUCKING SHIT!"
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