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Admittedly, I also found another type of headline construction that works really well, and it’s describing something that’s usually big (RVs) and saying it’s smaller than something everyone knows about (pickup trucks). I’m not sure why the Internet gods that be seem to love that so much.
I joked that one day we should have a headline that says “This Harley-Davidson Is Smaller Than An F-150 And Drives Like A Car” which had me laughing for a good 10 minutes straight.
Also, train stuff sometimes does weirdly well, which I’m so happy about.
It could also be fun to lean into the opposite and reference things that are a little more obscure:
“The new Honda Civic Si is faster than a Toyota 6BPU15 and handles better than a New Holland TC 5.80 SCR”
OnlyFans is right there, Torch!
Aside: I initially repeated the “Jason” from the quote and it felt weird. I don’t know what that says, but it probably says something.
Given the state of some of our old archives at other websites, are you sure we didn’t write on TP?
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Dang. Let’s accept that this place is built different. If it ever does come to writing on toilet paper, I feel confident that it will be three-ply and fancy. It will be the kind that discerning wipers use and, when they run out, will just grab the nearest rabbit.
Hey, now. Fluffy Bunny isn’t TP!
“This is why we don’t write on toilet paper.”
Am I the only one that would absolutely buy TP from you guys if it had an annual anthology of curated Autopian articles printed on it. Or just Tales-from-the-Slack quotes. Or Torch drawings of cars.
Jason would insist on drawing every single sheet separately, using a program running on an obsolete Soviet mini-computer, that takes so long to set up it would be quicker to draw each one by hand.
Well, I’m willing to wait for it.
As long as you don’t use, “So and so claps back…” or, “This Person had a five word response…”, I’ll be OK.
I can’t stand the F1 media of late.
“$200,000 A Week Driver Has Seven Words For Verstappen’s Championship Win”
My Dear Lord, yes. Next, it will be driver suit comparisons. “Who wore it better?”