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  1. loufail says:

    Both of them?!?!

  2. AWESOME! says:

    I don’t get why this is funny. Sorry.

  3. loufail says:

    Surely the guy with the beard and the horns killed them.
    Be aware, Vikings are trying to invade the USA!!

  4. Mikey D says:

    Is it a grammar fail as it should say ‘Obama and McCain’ are dead?

    • loufail says:

      I think newspaper headlines have their own grammar.

    • Sirencio says:

      Journalistic style (API) is different from your standard English/grammar writing (MLA). Go look at some headlines on the Onion to see how this style is aped, especially the comma thing.

      But yeah, there’s nothing wrong with that headline grammatically in API style.

      • Mikey D says:

        That sounds suspiciously like when you make a complete fool of yourself in front of everybody and then go ‘I meant to do that’.
        Then you have to keep doing the foolish thing time and again to prove that you meant to do it all along rather than admit you’re wrong.

        It’s how upside-down cake came to be.

  5. EGG says:

    Is it just me or does this look totally fake?

  6. AsTheCrowFlies says:

    Maybe the coupon is for a florist, so we can send nice arrangements to the funerals.

  7. Mookie says:

    Obama, McCain are deadheads? …dead to me? …deadbeat dads?

  8. Mookie says:

    I have an album that plays that when you spin it backwards.

  9. Ana says:

    Oh noes!!! Now Palin will try to rule the world! :o

  10. SJ says:

    At least the Viking isn’t a Socialist he saves us $1.00 ;)

  11. Kdubz says:

    Ahhh, I love Minneapolis, we pretty much rock.

  12. torplage says:

    Of course the placement is a bit silly overlapping that viking man’s head up at the top of the page.

    But what worries me more is if the headline “Obama and McCain are dead” is true! I haven’t read anything about that today (yet)…

  13. I am curious as to what is under the coupon…

  14. czuhc says:

    Hurray !

  15. Jeff says:

    We couldn’t be so lucky to lose them both. Then maybe someone with more substance than style or more intelligence than a beet would have won.

  16. wolfgangmunzerl2 says:

    two for the price of one!

  17. Blue2thFairy says:

    I have nothing of value to add to this fail so I will wait for a troll to pass by so I may taunt them a second time!

  18. Tim says:

    Finally! A third party has a shot at the white house!

  19. Mark says:

    Go Minnesota!

  20. capt. awesome says:

    I knew Inpu and Zeppelin weren’t lying. Of course this is a big fail. That’s a terrible deal. Only $1? I bet they jacked the price up $5 just so they can put it on sale soon afterwards. Have the ancient Greeks been threatening that newspaper until the paper advertised horrible deals? Those bastards.

  21. Ell Jee says:

    I…. Can’t view this, for some reason.

  22. Phaet says:

    Ok someone needs to explain that to me

    • capt. awesome says:

      The ad-sticker thing is covering up part of the headline. It’s like how if you take the word “clock” and cover the “l”, it’ll say “cock”.

  23. Blackup says:

    Photoshopped.

  24. Mayokitty says:

    WTF Viking?

    I wish my local newspaper had Vikings on it.

  25. Snowphoenyx says:

    The Strib does it again. Excuse me while I go pretend to be surprised….
    I’m ashamed to admit this is my local news paper.

  26. Wilson says:

    The best part is that there’s something about a “wake” in the article on the right.

  27. Gym X says:

    Its a gag newspaper more than a photoshop I think. Still, that’s just a guess. Either way, gag newspapers does seem look a good idea, but so did my automatic cat washing gyro and we all know how that ended.

  28. Gym X says:

    Bad guess, not a gag newspaper, just a bad sticker placement. *Facepalm*

    • THE PAPERBOY says:

      I hate those. I work for a local Newspaper company and we have to put stickers (or News Notes as they are referred to in the industry) on Most newspapers that get printed by us. They cover up important parts of the front page as show in the image above giving you an funny headline plus when you remove them off the paper they lift up a significant amount of ink from the paper (especially if the paper is freshly printed)

  29. Forsaken Billy says:

    Yeah, the STrib has a lot of those problems these days.

  30. pootpoot says:

    That is so not an ad placement fail. It’s guarantees maximum attention for the ad, so it’s a total win.

  31. What? Both candidates died and we were never told except by these brave mavericks? MAINSTREAM MEDIA BIAS!! Wake up, sheeple, you are being lied to!!! /s

  32. Kellyg says:

    The add is a sticky label. I deliver newspapers, and I have to put those on about once a week.

  33. MushuPork says:

    Leave it to the MINNESOTA paper… of course it has to be in my state….

    • tyler says:

      my state too buddy! i am up in duluth recovering from what appears to be a massive hangover, gotta love this winter weather!

  34. beavis says:

    I think this is fake… they could have just moved the advertisement over the words, then taken the picture…

    Fail!

  35. rrr says:

    BURN BABY, BURN!

  36. Nimphious says:

    Wow, American newspapers have ad pop-ups now?

  37. Alice says:

    It’s not photoshopped. Here’s a link to a picture of it without the sticker: http://s471.photobucket.com/albums/rr72/RandomAccountUsedForOnePicture/?action=view&current=102_0013.jpg

  38. nunya says:

    It’s not photoshopped. The paper is a MN paper, hence the VIKING. And the ad is real, and just carelessly [or maybe not.... ;) ] placed.

  39. brian says:

    funny shit but once again gets bad reviews

  40. colBoh says:

    Of course, the headline is “Obama and McCain are dead EVEN”.

    • MRN ♂ says:

      Of course, the headline is “Obama and McCain are dead even if people don’t know it yet and voted for them anyway”.



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