My Billings Gazette

When it comes to print, writing a headline is an art of word choice and economy. Somehow, you have to boil a story that has nuance into a finite space. Most headline writers do this by punctuating keywords and main ideas, then letting the story take care of the finer points of context.

And then there are stories like this.

The story headline is enough of a grabber: "Midget wrestlers dead after hooker romp." I mean, I see that, and I'm reading the story that follows.

The Web headline is even better: "Mexican wrestling midget brothers found dead after hooker romp." With that much context, heck, you might not need to read the story. What more need be said?

Finally, this dispatch would not be complete without a nod to the great Dave Barry, in the form of this observation:

Hooker Romp would be a great name for a rock band.