Headlines with a keen grasp of the obvious

• Well, Anonymous Duh, you bright thinker you, if the line is stolen, it should have at least been in quotations. In any event, it ill-fits the story, and if the headline is too vague and off-point for most readers to get, it's a lousy headline. Duh.

• "sometimes the bear eats you" is a line from a song. Duh.

• Just to correct the poster that wrote "no one eats bear." The restaurant that sits alongside the lake at Keystone Resort often has served bear stew. I've had it and enjoyed it. (By the way, they have some fine ales bruin there, and the meat wasn't a bit grizzly.)

• Michael Roberts throwing stones from his glass house again.

• I dislike defending the Post, but here I go again, because I agree the headlines could be much better in that paper. The Rocky was much more creative. But I'm reading this page, chuckling a little, then I glance at a Westword headline the top this page: "Sometimes the bear eats you." Cruel, tasteless and pointless (no one eats bear, and the dead woman certainly didn't). This was a lame attempt at irony by someone who doesn't really know what irony is. I look to the right and see "Ed Perlmutter gets and earful at health-care meeting in Brighton-wow." Really? Who saw that coming? That's big news, I guess. "Tuning in the Denver Dumb Friends League kitten cam." I didn't even have to click on another page to find three much worse offenses than Michael is complaining about. Does this mean Westword expects more from other media than it expects in its own pages? Would seem so.

• Look at the Post sports section on a daily basis and you get similar obvious stuff. Like today. There wasn't one interesting headline in 10 pages. And Troy Tulowitzki hits for the cycle and the best the Post can come up with is: Tulo hits for the cycle. Wow, great stuff there. At least try to be original.

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