Judging by the cringeworthy Beatles-punning headlines floating around the Internet today, the opportunity provided by the news of Paul McCartney’s budding relationship with a rich New Yorker must have thrilled many a Fab Four-loving copyeditor during a long, cold night of dotting is and crossing ts; sadly, not all of the efforts put forth hit the right note. After the jump, we present four of them to you, and ask: Which one was written by someone who needs to come together with a stylebook ASAP?
How Many Bad Beatles Puns Can You Fit Into A Google News Search?
November 7th, 2007 // 20 Comments
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I’m still getting past that St. Sebastian pose Judith Regan is striking! WTF!
@Ned Raggett: She’s actually doing an Ultragrrrl imitation.
@Ned Raggett: For one brief second, I thought that Paul was now dating Judith Regan. And my world collapsed as I tried to imagine Paul going where Bernie Kerik had been.
“Tryst and Shout” is at least original. “Ticket To Ride” is overreaching, and “Little Help From His Friends” and “All Paul Needs Is Love” is just lame.
If we’re using the car, how about “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road?”
@maura: “It’s like in that one REM video, you know?”
@maura: FTW
I’m impressed no one tried to work “Come Together” into a headline.
(WEDDING) BAND ON THE RUN
I voted for “Ticket to Ride” because that’s clearly a Lennon song.
I’m gonna have to be the nerd and flag all of these choices. “All You Need Is Love” and “Ticket To Ride” were Lennon’s songs, “With A Little Help From My Friends” was written by Lennon/McCartney specifically for Ringo, and “Twist And Shout” wasn’t even written by Lennon or McCartney [of course].
A bigger question — does anyone still care about a) which songs were written by Lennon and which songs were written by McCartney, and b) who McCartney is diddling these days? I mean maybe other than this guy?
[idolator.com]
@dennisobell: damn you dennisobell! ;)
I’m disappointed no one used “Freedom”.
I’ll give ten bucks to the person who can use Monkberry Moon Delight in a romantic pun.
@Lucas Jensen: “McCartney’s Much-Married Poon Delight”?
Sorry, that was crass. But what do you expect for a tenner.
@oovy: If they used “Freedom”, then the terrorists would have won, clearly.
McCartney still cares about who wrote what, as evidenced by his efforts a few years ago to have some of the songwriting credits switched from L-Mc to Mc-L.
@DrSpaceman: I really think you deserve that money. Email me: lucas [at] team clermont [dot] com.
Simply Having a Wonderful Cheat-ting Time
Wait til the reconciliation with la Mills and the Post breaks out
BACK TO THE LEG!
@NickEddy: I have to give the NY Post props for their headline: “Paul’s N.Y. Honey Pie.” Someone drummed an obscure White Album reference out of their interns!