Looking at the sites in www.alltop.com, the crime section, I have found some blog titles that look so boring I do not even want to even visit that blog, and some titles that look interesting and look like they have at least something to do with crime. The top three boring titles are : CNN.COM-LAW, MSNBC.COM: CRIME & COURTS, and NYDAILYNEWS.COM – NEW YORK CRIME HEADLINES AND ARTICLES – NY DAILY NEWS. These titles make me want to sleep. On the contrary, there are some interesting and hooking titles such as DUMB CRIMINALS, DUMB CROOKS, and STUPID CRIMINAL FILES. I picked the blogs that had the words ‘dumb’ and ’stupid’ because when someone says ‘crime’, we tend to mention sinister detectives running after an equally sinister, but more evil criminals. When the words ‘dumb’ and ’stupid’ come out on a crime blog title, it is ironic, so it catches one’s attention, and also, we may want to know the limits of one’s stupidity, which seems endless nowadays. When we go deeper into blogs, we find posts. I chose to go into the blogs which had funny and catching titles, to see whether they had similarly entertaining titles or if they had really boring titles which again would make me want to sleep. I just found a boring title ; A Kid is into Pot. Who cares about a kid in a pot? I am sure that there would be enough stupid kids in the world to try that, no matter whose child it is. The second title I chose was ‘Mary Ann From Gilligan’s Island Arrested On Marijuana-Related Charges‘. The reason for this is because there are too many bastards doing marijuana in the world to keep track of everyone (oops, in this case, not a bastard, because the name seems female). The very last title I think is not good is ‘Man Reported After Reporting Pot Theft’. Wow. I, and hopefully the readers of this post realized how boring a title can be. The world has certainly changed a lot.
Back to the bright side with lots of interesting crime and stupid detectives (that was definitely one of my cynical sarcasms), I will now present some super titles that instantly makes you want to read the post, for example, ‘Don’t go to Court when Wanted’. This is funny!! A even funnier one is ‘Man Eats Marijuana in Attempt to Hide it from Police‘. This is interesting because marijuana is not for your digestive system, it is for your lungs. I felt sorry for that man who would have had all that crap in his stomach. The third title I chose was ‘A Dork with a Spork‘. I didn’t know what a spork meant till I searched in the dictionary – ‘a spoon shaped eating utensil with short tines at the tip’. Then, I didn’t know what tine meant, so I went and searched my good friend dictionary once more – ‘a prong or sharp point, such as that on a fork or antler’. Then, I didn’t know what prong meant (thanks to my fantastic vocab skills), so I searched the dictionary again, hoping it would be the last time – ‘each of two or more projected parts at the end of a fork’. It was the last time. To explain for why I think this title is funny is because – it rhymes. I couldn’t care less about a man in Alaska with a spork in his hands, but the rhyming part was actually entertaining.
All in all, I think that the element of a good title is getting attention, and having some sort of humor in it. Thank you for reading this post.
