Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder <a href="http://www.cnn.com/tshirt/?headline=Father's%20deathbed%20secret%20is%20surprise&fhash=501cf7ea0eeb1199528b939ccc2fa93c&date=1215698344000&hash=1b0c28dd998493dca99a727bf38542d7&return_uri=http://www.cnn.com/video/%23/video/living/2008/07/10/bia.bliss.broyard.cnn" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/tshirt/?hea...yard.cnn</a> Maybe the longest URL ever posted. I kid you not, you can now buy a t-shirt with your favorite headline from a story they're running on CNN. I would be really curious to know how to this ever came to be.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Newspapers have done something similar with some success in regards to sports. It isn't uncommon to be able to purchase a commemorative front page -- usually when the hometown team wins the Super Bowl. But any random headline? Hmmmmm.... The idea is you have this "immediate" headline on your shirt. Except that by the time the shirt is printed and shipped, it will be at least a day old, if you spring for overnight delivery. So ... yeah.... pretty dopey.... and just one more thing for poor Wall-E to compact one day.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder My wife and I were just talking about this? How does CNN differentiate their stories? Is "Father Kils Daughter In Honor Killing" not going to be a shirt, yet "Woman Trades House To Save Gas" is? I understand there's a "wackiness" aspect to it all, but are they going to start featuring wacky stories at the expense of actual news just to sell t-shirts?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>are they going to start featuring wacky stories at the expense of actual news just to sell t-shirts<< CNN would never stoop to such stunts. It is a respected news organization that takes its role seriously. How dare you suggest they would do such a thing? Now back to Glenn Beck, followed by a special episode of Nancy Grace. After that, Lou Dobbs rants about illegal aliens as part of his special 743 part series: "The Trouble With Foreigners"....
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder I've always found it somewhat sadly ironic that woman's last name is Grace.
Originally Posted By mele Ha! Good point, SPP. This is just a weird concept. Not weird that someone would come up with it, really, just that it made it beyond the idea stage. Multiple people thought this was a good idea and did all of the paperwork to set it into motion. Yikes.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <I've always found it somewhat sadly ironic that woman's last name is Grace.> Isn't that weird? I knew a woman with the first name of Grace, who did about everything she could do contradict her own name, too. Maybe it's just too big a burden to bear and you start rebelling against it at an early age... ?
