POS News Update: Best of 2016

In a previous post, I described an experiment with automating Twitter posts using news headlines with the nouns switched around.  I have been auto-Tweeting these posts since July 2015.  I did a previous "best of" post for 2015.  Now here are my 10 favorites from 2016 out of the close to 250 that were auto-Tweeted last year:

10. 'RARE NEWBORN REPORT MAY BE THE YOUNGEST EVER DETECTED'

• It is a newborn report on newborns.

9.  'POOL IS ENDING PARENT END BREEDING'

• Sorry parents, but no more breeding at your end of the pool.

8. 'CINCINNATI MAY PROLONG CHRONIC PAIN, CLINTON SUGGESTS'

• If the science is sound and you have chronic pain, you probably want to avoid Cincinnati in the future.

7. 'SPUDS GROW HUMAN SPIES OUTSIDE OF CHINA FOR 13 DAYS'

• For a long time humans have been growing potatoes.  Now potatoes are growing humans.  And not just any humans...

6. 'NORTH CHINA FIRES BALLISTIC PRESSURE INTO EATING'

• Speaking of China, its efforts to push eating are akin to warfare.

5. 'NEW YORK GHOSTBUSTER CAN ENFORCE PUMP FEARS ON MENUS, U SAYS'

• If you are a New York restaurant owner and your customers are feeling overly optimistic about the price of gasoline, who're you gonna call?

4. 'TWELVE MEAT RECOUNT PODS SHARE $43 MILLION IN [...] DENTAL JOB.'

• As many as twelve groups responsible for counting meat products profited from some very expensive dental work.

3. 'MOST NEW GIRLS SAY THEY'LL VOTE TO RE-ELECT THEIR MAGIC WILDFIRES'

• Despite what previous women have done, the younger generation is voting for mystical forest burning.

2. 'MICROSOFT'S 2016: DIPLOMATS 10 PRECAUTIONS AND INDIANS ARE THE BIG FEARS'

• Microsoft's biggest worries in 2016? What foreign representatives are saying, and Indians.

1.  'GET YOUR CANADA MANIPULATION WITH FITBIT 'SLEEP SCHEDULE''

• Finally, you can control Canada with a simple electronic device disguised as a sleeping aid.

Well, that was fun, but I am moving on to other kinds of coding experiments and automated Tweets.  So I'll be discontinuing the #POSNewsUpdate going forward.

Still, you can follow me on Twitter at @philanalytics to get the latest updates from the blog.