Quote of the Day, I Wish *I* Had Written That, @jamestaranto edition.

This is pretty much perfect:

Hix Nix Six Six Six 

“Harvard’s Satanic ‘Black Mass’ Nixed”–headline, Washington Post website, May 13

…although, for the sake of accuracy: Yankee Doodle Dandy got the original Variety headline wrong. It was ‘Sticks Nix Hick Pix.’  …Which I did not know either, prior to Wikipedia.