BUS PLUNGE II.

Jack Shafer has done a follow-up on the "bus plunge" piece I wrote about here; it turns out the headline for the "bisexual snail" story is probably unrecoverable:

Tina Orzoco of ProQuest valiantly searched the company's vast databases in an attempt to locate the hed for Allan M. Siegal's favorite K-hed of all time—"Most snails are both male and female, according to the Associated Press." Orzoco failed, Siegal writes, because timeless filler such as the snail story ran in early editions only, "and was replaced thereafter by live news. And the microfilm edition of the Times—now the basis of ProQuest—was the final edition."

But on the brighter side, Bernard Adelsberger guarantees that the old Philadelphia Bulletin once published this K-hed:

No Blood in Ants
Ants have no blood.

Posted by languagehat at November 16, 2006 12:39 PM