Favorite lede you've written

The lede threads are both great so how about posting the favorite (best, funniest, most poignant, most clever) lede you've written?

Mine would be:

Eisenhower was in a pickle. And not one of those sweet gherkins either. No, this was one of those big vinegary things you get at the fair.

Courtney Lynn had fouled out and C.J. Carson was relegated to the bench.

Brit Miller was saddled with an aching back, not to mention four fouls.

And the Panthers were all tied with Normal West with just more than a minute to go.

 

"this was one of those big vinegary things you get at the fair."

HA!

 

As an editor, I would have told you to throw your first graf away and start over. That is awful.

 

Don't like pickles, huh?

 

Can't think of my best lede, but my best headline was from a sloppy, wet, nasty cross country race:

Union wins race only a mudder could love

 

he probably just doesn't like pickle_juice.

 

N-i-c-e pull...

 

If, on the 'morrow, Germany should happen to defeat us at our national game, let us remember that twice this century we have defeated them at theirs.

 

I can't say I was down with the pickles lede either. I just don't have spnited's cold, dead heart. The heart of an editor, in other words.

My favorite lede:

"It takes Colin Farrell forty-eight seconds to call me a c&nt."

My mom was so proud. At least she was crying what I think were tears of pride.

Interestingly, perhaps, my first line for that story was actually, "Things don't start well." And then I went into the c-line. That was a judicious cut by my editor; I was well-served by his heartlessness.

 

When did spnited get any kind of heart?

 

I don't know if it's my favorite, but one I remember from the last few years:

"Jesus wept. John and Mark rejoiced."


Texas baseball playoff game...losing pitcher's first name was Jesus. Mark and John both hit homers off of him.

 

Thanks, slap. People need to be reminded of that every now and then.