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Bumfketeer	Post subject: Bad headline pun of the week (so far) Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 3:20 pm
Joined: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 3557 Location: Cusp of retirement, grave or both	Do heds on Web sites count? If so, the New York Racing Association has a beauty of a bad one on its site today.<p>The story is about a horse named Uriah, who made up a lot of ground (that's called "closing" in racing terms) to win the feature race:<p>Voila (or, as my paper once had in a hammerhed on the features page, "Viola!"):<p>Uriah closes a heap to win feature<p>Great. I'm a testy old Deadhead who doesn't remember much of anything, but does anyone actually remember Uriah Heep anymore? Or did anyone ever care about them at all?<p>I'd better watch myself. The bass player has probably been on the rim somewhere for the past 20 years.
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dmfugitive	Post subject: Re: Bad headline pun of the week (so far) Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 7:52 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 14, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 257 Location: back in D.M., funny enough	<blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica ,sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Bumfketeer: ... does anyone actually remember Uriah Heep anymore?<hr></blockquote><p>If they read Dickens, then yes.
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Bumfketeer	Post subject: Re: Bad headline pun of the week (so far) Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 12:19 am
Joined: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 3557 Location: Cusp of retirement, grave or both	<blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica ,sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by dmfugitive: <p>If they read Dickens, then yes.<hr></blockquote><p> Surely you jest. Two of my kids are in college, and I am sure neither of them ever heard of Dickens.
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KfitzR	Post subject: Re: Bad headline pun of the week (so far) Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 10:58 am
Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 836 Location: New Brunswick, Canada	The dickens, you say! Sorry. I had to.
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: Bad headline pun of the week (so far) Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 12:02 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	<blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica ,sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by KfitzR: The dickens, you say! Sorry. I had to.<hr></blockquote><p>Please show some restraint in this company.
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Spackle	Post subject: Re: Bad headline pun of the week (so far) Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 5:04 pm
Joined: Tue Nov 19, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 1	<blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica ,sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>I'd better watch myself. The bass player has probably been on the rim somewhere for the past 20 years.[/QB]<hr></blockquote><p>He may well be. The original bassist, Paul Newton, quit the band in 1971 and, after a decade of session and backup work and occasional bar dates, got tired of the music business and dropped out. He told a fanzine interviewer from Holland who tracked him down in 1993, "I was obviously not born to be a rock star."<p>The band was still around in the late 1990's, having changed lineups about two dozen times over the years and by that time possessing only one original member, Mick Box. It has an active web site.<p>Well, you brought it up...
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