Ed Dead I suspect you've heard by now that Ed McMahon has died . Upon seeing the news, though, I thought I'd go back behind the scenes at Fark, to the TotalFark area, to see what headline attempts had been made. See, when Fark members see something to link to they submit it with a tagline or two and hope it gets greenlit so that it becomes the official Fark link for the story. When it's something of reasonably broad interest, as you may suspect, the site's hit with dozens of submissions. The official one chosen by Fark: "Ed McMahon dies at 86. He is survived as Cash4Gold pitchman by MC Hammer" Below are the ones posted earlier that didn't make it, with the earliest being the most to-the-point and respectful, essentially killing their chances of being chosen. As you can guess, most of these were submitted at essentially the same time and many of them had the same ideas in mind. There were more, even a couple hours later as others found out and tried to sh...
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