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* The contributors to [[Fark|Fark.com]]'s front page headlines sometime indulge in this, when they aren't being [[Deadpan Snarker]]s.
* In chemistry there is a class of compounds called '''[http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/arsole2.pdf arsoles]''', which lend themselves to [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233615499_Arsole_Aromaticity_Revisited interesting] [https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja00431a003 titles] on research papers. Mostly they're concerned with whether [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|arsole rings are]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromaticity aromatic], but ''Chemistry World'' also came up with [https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/scientists-explore-arsoles-off-colour-behaviour-/1010284.article "Scientists explore arsoles' off-colour behaviour"].
* Unless the lead story is something deathly serious (as in 9/11 levels of serious), the current-affairs [[radio]] show ''[[As It Happens]]'' will air at least one punny headline in the show's opening, and often more than one.
== In fiction ==
=== [[Literature]] ===
* In their book of their series ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]'', David Mitchell and Robert Webb imagined editors of newspapers coming up with a stock of punning headlines [[Crazy Prepared|in case of certain unlikely events happening]]. For example 'The Hens Justify The Means' in case chickens were every used to teach the law of averages.
* A few of these show up in ''[[
=== [[Newspaper Comics]] ===
* "Misleading headlines" are a recurring theme on ''[[Frank and Ernest]]''; [http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=8467 one example].
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* A shining example from ''[[Three Panel Soul]]'', on the star of the new ''[[Tron]]'' movie being intelligent: [http://threepanelsoul.com/2010/03/22/on-astronomy-minors/ New Tron Star Not Dense].
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