Comments on: Never Shoot Where You Eat http://firedaily.com/2010/04/never-shoot-where-you-eat/ For Firefighters...By Firefighters Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave Statter http://firedaily.com/2010/04/never-shoot-where-you-eat/comment-page-1/#comment-433 Dave Statter Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:33:42 +0000 http://firedaily.com/?p=1607#comment-433 No John, you didn't beat me to this one. I had it in this morning's Quick Takes.<br><br>What you did do was demoralize me. I was very proud of what I had written (see below). Once I saw your headline I realized my goose was cooked. That may be the best headline of the year for any of us. As my good friend Rhett Fleitz recently hinted, less is better in the headline writing department. You proved it.<br><br>Statter<br><br><br>Why did the firefighter cross the road? Apparently to kill the chicken: No, the next riddle is not why did the chicken where red suspenders, but it might as well be with this silly story. Much is being made in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania about the police officer, when confronted with a large chicken “terrorizing” a neighborhood, called in his buddy the bow and arrow toting firefighter. The firefighter ended up having a nice dinner, but the meal turned out to be someone’s pet (I don’t recall this transgression coming up in the recent report on firefighters behaving badly … clearly we overlooked something). Click here to find out if someone can turn this bad turn of events into chicken salad. No John, you didn't beat me to this one. I had it in this morning's Quick Takes.

What you did do was demoralize me. I was very proud of what I had written (see below). Once I saw your headline I realized my goose was cooked. That may be the best headline of the year for any of us. As my good friend Rhett Fleitz recently hinted, less is better in the headline writing department. You proved it.

Statter

Why did the firefighter cross the road? Apparently to kill the chicken: No, the next riddle is not why did the chicken where red suspenders, but it might as well be with this silly story. Much is being made in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania about the police officer, when confronted with a large chicken “terrorizing” a neighborhood, called in his buddy the bow and arrow toting firefighter. The firefighter ended up having a nice dinner, but the meal turned out to be someone’s pet (I don’t recall this transgression coming up in the recent report on firefighters behaving badly … clearly we overlooked something). Click here to find out if someone can turn this bad turn of events into chicken salad.

]]> By: Dave Statter http://firedaily.com/2010/04/never-shoot-where-you-eat/comment-page-1/#comment-351 Dave Statter Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:33:42 +0000 http://firedaily.com/?p=1607#comment-351 No John, you didn't beat me to this one. I had it in this morning's Quick Takes.<br><br>What you did do was demoralize me. I was very proud of what I had written (see below). Once I saw your headline I realized my goose was cooked. That may be the best headline of the year for any of us. As my good friend Rhett Fleitz recently hinted, less is better in the headline writing department. You proved it.<br><br>Statter<br><br><br>Why did the firefighter cross the road? Apparently to kill the chicken: No, the next riddle is not why did the chicken where red suspenders, but it might as well be with this silly story. Much is being made in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania about the police officer, when confronted with a large chicken “terrorizing” a neighborhood, called in his buddy the bow and arrow toting firefighter. The firefighter ended up having a nice dinner, but the meal turned out to be someone’s pet (I don’t recall this transgression coming up in the recent report on firefighters behaving badly … clearly we overlooked something). Click here to find out if someone can turn this bad turn of events into chicken salad. No John, you didn't beat me to this one. I had it in this morning's Quick Takes.

What you did do was demoralize me. I was very proud of what I had written (see below). Once I saw your headline I realized my goose was cooked. That may be the best headline of the year for any of us. As my good friend Rhett Fleitz recently hinted, less is better in the headline writing department. You proved it.

Statter

Why did the firefighter cross the road? Apparently to kill the chicken: No, the next riddle is not why did the chicken where red suspenders, but it might as well be with this silly story. Much is being made in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania about the police officer, when confronted with a large chicken “terrorizing” a neighborhood, called in his buddy the bow and arrow toting firefighter. The firefighter ended up having a nice dinner, but the meal turned out to be someone’s pet (I don’t recall this transgression coming up in the recent report on firefighters behaving badly … clearly we overlooked something). Click here to find out if someone can turn this bad turn of events into chicken salad.

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