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I never knew Zarqawi looked like that.


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ANTI-DC | April 26, 2006, 3:27pm | #

Looks more like a potato Hitler

Clean Hands | April 26, 2006, 3:28pm | #

That's part of the answer, I think. Laugh at them. Drives 'em bats.

These islamofascists take themselves almost as seriously as vegans or feminists do.

NoStar | April 26, 2006, 3:35pm | #

That's the ugliest Bush I ever saw, and it's urging for a probe (for a price, of course.)

Now what kind of Bush urges probes for a price?

Pro Libertate | April 26, 2006, 3:39pm | #

The question is, was the layout intentional? I vote yes. Now Mr Potato Head will join Evil Bert in a new wave of terrorist mockery.

Captain Holly | April 26, 2006, 3:39pm | #

Mr. Potato Head is running Al-Qaida? Say it ain't so!

Jesse Walker | April 26, 2006, 3:44pm | #

The question is, was the layout intentional?

Nope. It's a byproduct of this inane "Hot L" layout The Sun recently adopted. It's constantly producing weird juxtapositions, but this is the funniest so far.

joe | April 26, 2006, 3:50pm | #

Mr. Potato Head is NOT an evil terrorist.

He just looks like one because someone put the evil terrorist eyebrows on him.

Pro Libertate | April 26, 2006, 4:00pm | #

joe,

Yes, just like they did with Bert. Someone is trying to take our precious childhood icons away from us.

Next, we'll hear that Mr. Rogers is actually alive in a cave in Pakistan. With evil eyebrows.

joe | April 26, 2006, 4:02pm | #

No wonder they can't catch Zarqawi - he's a master of disguise.

sage +P | April 26, 2006, 4:04pm | #

But they sure got a good picture of him.

At least they put the nose and mustache in the right place.

Pro Libertate | April 26, 2006, 4:12pm | #

Where's the pipe? Oh, wait. Can't expose our children to a pipe--almost forgot. That's how we'll catch Zarqawi, when he slips up in his Mr. Potato Head disguise and includes the verboten pipe.

Sandy | April 26, 2006, 4:16pm | #

joe:

Perhaps. But in his unfriendly attitude and lack of positive statements about the Global War on Terror, I think it can be argued that Mr. Potatohead has crossed the line to being objectively pro-islamofascism.

Stevo Darkly | April 26, 2006, 4:40pm | #

Mr. Potato Head is running Al-Qaida? Say it ain't so!

The terrorists have eyes everywhere. Potato eyes.

Stevo Darkly | April 26, 2006, 4:42pm | #

You know, putting out a daily paper is a huge, fast-paced operations. Little things like this will happen sometimes. Let's not have a russet to judgment.

Pro Libertate | April 26, 2006, 4:42pm | #

I have a question. Is it more appropriate to boycott potatoes or to eat more of them? In other words, which action would make Mr. Potato Head suffer the most? Starchy bastard!

Sandy | April 26, 2006, 4:44pm | #

Ouch, Stevo, that was physically painful.

Idaho what you think you're trying to prove.

sage +P | April 26, 2006, 4:49pm | #

Zarqawi's just trying to show what a spud he is.

Pro Libertate | April 26, 2006, 4:50pm | #

Sandy, I don't get that pun. It just spud by me.

smacky | April 26, 2006, 4:51pm | #

So if I still have my old Mr. Potato Head doll somewhere, does that mean I'm harboring a terrorist? Or am I cultivating one?

sage +P | April 26, 2006, 4:51pm | #

He was at the beach trying to pick up chicks but was having no luck. His friend told him to try putting a potato in his pants. But this didn't work either. In fact, everyone was laughing at him. He asked his buddy what was wrong and he said "you're supposed to put it in the front."

Osama | April 26, 2006, 4:58pm | #

Say, the Mr. Potato Head image that The Sun used looks a lot like Mohammed.

Prepare to die, infidel scum.

Stevo Darkly | April 26, 2006, 4:59pm | #

Idaho what you think you're trying to prove.

That has got tuber the worst pun I've ever heard.

Pro Libertate | April 26, 2006, 5:07pm | #

I yam getting sick of all of this nonsense. Next punster gets mashed.

the other Mark | April 26, 2006, 5:08pm | #

That has got tuber the worst pun I've ever heard.

Where did I put my stabbin' knife...

Taylor | April 26, 2006, 5:21pm | #

The Sun is a new print. They're just starting to figure this stuff out..

Adriana | April 26, 2006, 6:19pm | #

Is the probe that Bush is asking for like the ones that aliens do to the Earth people they kidnap?

JD | April 26, 2006, 6:28pm | #

All these puns au gratin on my nerves!

Rich Ard | April 26, 2006, 9:44pm | #

This is the sort of thing that happens to all of the johnny-come-latkes.

Stevo Darkly | April 26, 2006, 9:47pm | #

I think that I shall never see
A pomme as lovely as a tree

All these puns au gratin on my nerves!

Yukon say that again!

Rich Ard | April 26, 2006, 10:04pm | #

This is getting ri-golden-diculous.

Ruthless | April 26, 2006, 10:13pm | #

Before he started taking steroids, Zarqawi looked like Mr. Parsnip Head.

By the time Uncle Sam catches him, he'll look like Mr. Pumpkin Head.

Dogzilla | April 26, 2006, 10:35pm | #

"Looks more like a potato Hitler"

You will address him as Herr Kartoffelnkopf!

M' | April 26, 2006, 11:11pm | #

My sister was afraid of Bert as a child and always knew he was evil. I used to terrorize her with Bert dolls. If only she would have known the evil of Mr. Potato head I would have had twice as much fun.

smacky | April 27, 2006, 1:42pm | #

The newspaper layout is very unappeeling. It looks like it was made by a bunch of gradeschool 'tots.