Independent Sources Needs Bling Bling: The World’s 23 Best Ebonics Headlines
Attn: Senior Administration Official
The editorial staff of Independent Sources thoroughly enjoyed your posting on Ebonics entitled “Ebonics? Again?”. We just wish you had taken as much pride in naming the post as you did writing it.
As you know, Independent Sources has had a mixed track record with naming its postings.
We have some titles to be proud of:
- Mississippi Burning: That Lady From Court TV Done Me in Pretty Good
- U.S. Turns to Doobie Bros. In Terrorism Fight; or, What a Fool Believes
- That Sucking Sound You Hear is Arianna Huffington’s Blog
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Daily Kos
- Ignore that Majority Behind the Curtain
- When is a Retailer Like an Operating System? Never
As well as some titles in need of improvement:
- Suspended Cell Phone Student’s Behavior Deserving of an F
- Time to Pay for the Questionable LA County Homeless Count
- Democrats 2008: Commanding Leading the All Important Rubber Wrist Band Category
- Are iPods Dangerous?
- Liberals Prefer Caribbean Music over John Kerry
Some pretty bad ones:
- LA Times Answer to African Famine: Country Music
- Lindsay Lohan Gets Digital Breast Reduction
- Hands off of our Cheerleaders
Some really bad ones:
And the worst title ever:
WTF?
This brings us to the title of your Ebonics article. To help you along, here are the BEST 23 Ebonics titles in the blogosphere. All of them are superior to the one that Independent Sources used. Please look at these and get inspired.
- Too Many Children Who Can’t Read? Let’s Make it Worse!
- Reason to Homeschool #56465115
- We be teachin’ Ebonics
- Maybe the Name of this Stupid Program Sounds Better in Ebonics
- Idiot with a PhD
- Sheeit!
- Ebonics Be Back In Bidness
- Poor Speech Skills are now a Civil Right
- Say What?
- Notorious B.I.G. U(niversity)
- Yo, Yo, Yo, Only in California
- Much Learning Hath Made Them Mad
- I be Getting All Learneded
- Ebonics in the Hizzle for the Rizzle
- This Ain’t No Jive: Ebonics Be Back
- Ebonics Be Back
- Calling Bill Cosby
- Ebonics is Back, Bitches!
- Stupid is as Stupid Does
- San Bernardino Calif. – We like our kids dumb!
- Sankofi – The Loony Ebonic Treat
- Hooked on Ebonics
- Ebonics Be The Way
While we’re at it, check out this hilarious cartoon.
Independent Sources
UPDATE: MORE HEADLINES here.
Our serious take on this issue is here.
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July 19th, 2005 at 6:00 am
number 23! woo hoo!
props for the recog!
werd.
July 19th, 2005 at 9:07 am
#10 eh? Finally made a TOP TEN List other than in the Post Office…thnx for the recognition…..We’ll be here all week……….tya tya tya
The Stevo-in-H-Town
Crassius Maximus annnnnnnnndddd,
100mph
July 19th, 2005 at 12:11 pm
Wizbangapalooza
Paul at Wizbang’s satirical jab on Monday at a California school district’s Ebonics in the classroom plan has ignited a mini-blogswarm.
July 19th, 2005 at 8:57 pm
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July 20th, 2005 at 12:00 am
More headlines:
Skool: Get yo learn on!
“Drop it like it’s hot! Bling-bling and ghettofab at the White House Correspondents Dinner”
“My pockets is FAT! The Annan Boyz Jack the UN Oil for Food Thang”
“I will bust a cap in yo ass!” Bush to Bin Laden after attack on WTC
“You not ready for this jelly!” Janice Rodgers-Brown ain’t skur’d of no Senate!
“Don’t make me come over there!” Cheney warns Senate while takin’ off his shoe
“You stupid” Rumsfeld to Durbin
“Yo mama!” Bush to Clinton after clownin’ him about his ears and the cracker from MAD magazine
“I ain’t do dat ho!” Clinton to Senate after Monica caught chickenheadin’
“OH NO SHE DI’IN’T” HRC, rolling neck, suckin teeth, pulling off earrings and slappin on vaseline. “Dat biatch is MINE!”
Arizona Wildfire Spreads: “DA ROOF! DA ROOF! DA ROOF IS ON FIRE! WE DON’T NO WATER LET THE MOTHERF—ER BURN! BURN, MOTHERF—ER, BURN!”
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