Hello and welcome to the fourth and final quarterfinals thread for Fark's 2012 Headline of the Year contest. We've collected the best headlines from each month and let the Totalfarkers vote on their favorites. These are the 10 top-voted headlines from September through November of this year as voted. Now it's up to you: vote on your favorites, and the top five from this contest will make it to the final round later (probably Friday). There will also be a contest for each of the biggest subtabs later: sports, showbiz, geek, politics and business. The week after that we will have the voting threads for pun/wordplay headlines and the context headline of the year.

There are also some that you might not see here because either: 1) they've been moved to a separate contest, such as a context headline or one that's on a subtab, or 2) they didn't make it out of the voting threads in Totalfark. I'll link the redlit TF voting threads later on in this thread.

Please don't enable voting; the finalists for this period are set. Nothing wrong with sharing a favorite headline from this period, as long as you don't enable voting for it.

So enjoy these and vote for the ones you like.

60 Spitfires . . . crated, hid . . . 70 years later . . . up for bid . . . -- Burma planes

http://www.fark.com/comments/73874 59

800 clowns gather in Mexico City for convention. Parking not a problem as they all arrived in one car

http://www.fark.com/comments/74021 55

9.3 million gallons of untreated sewage flow into Shingle Creek. That's a lot of shiat on a shingle

http://www.fark.com/comments/74158 35

Alzheimer's Walk set for Saturday. Search and rescue set for Sunday

http://www.fark.com/comments/73540 19

American Airlines has so many loose seats turning up that it's starting to resemble a Catholic boy's school

http://www.fark.com/comments/73601 63

As per her dying wish, man has wife's vagina carved on tombstone -- as cold and motionless as when she was alive

http://www.fark.com/comments/74018 40

Blackberry network down all over the Middle East. THIS IS AN OUTAGE

http://www.fark.com/comments/73403 37

Blind, deaf, 3-legged dog saves family from house fire, sure plays a mean pinball

http://www.fark.com/comments/74480 09

Body parts washing up on the beach are from a missing California hiker, which is why you don't go hiking in the ocean

http://www.fark.com/comments/73646 90

Boys sexually assaulted by women often overlooked, high-fived

http://www.fark.com/comments/73050 32

Colombia rejects FARC rebels calls for a ceasefire, a "Food" tab, and requests to go back to the pre-2007 site design

http://www.fark.com/comments/73133 73

Cougar enters home through dog door. In related news, your mom started drinking again

http://www.fark.com/comments/74543 51

Couple in their 90's who had been married 72 years die exactly one hour apart-which might have had less to do with true love and was more about that horrific car wreck they were both in

http://www.fark.com/comments/74099 32

Egyptian princess's tomb found near Cai...oh, wait, it's empty, and some dude wearing a mushroom is telling me she's in another pyramid

http://www.fark.com/comments/74157 54

If your boyfriend's idea of a makeup gift is 1.5 tons of hay he stole from a neighbor's field, you should probably consider baling

http://www.fark.com/comments/73284 53

Just like subby, Swedish farmer gets 3:00am text from cows in heat

http://www.fark.com/comments/73592 90

Larry Sloan, co-_________ of Mad Libs, _________ at age 89. He will be ___________

http://www.fark.com/comments/73857 45

Man gets six month prison term for insulting the fat, goat loving pedophile King of Bahrain

http://www.fark.com/comments/74161 16

Man rescues woman by pounding beaver with hard pole

http://www.fark.com/comments/73115 13

Meghan McCain says she's not voting with her vagina, presumably because the voting levers aren't placed low enough

http://www.fark.com/comments/73897 71

Menstrual cycle affects asthma, AMONG OTHER THINGS

http://www.fark.com/comments/74259 99

New museum exhibit of Frida Kahlo's wardrobe is sure to raise a few eyebrow

http://www.fark.com/comments/74559 02

New research discovers difference in visual acuity between men and women: men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapid movements, and women can see everything you ever did wrong

http://www.fark.com/comments/73074 55

Pakistani man dies from inhaling the fumes of burning US flags while at protest against freedom of speech. Give me irony or give me death

http://www.fark.com/comments/73323 63

Plane carrying trekkers crashes in Nepal, killing all 19 on board. Recovery team having difficulty because they were all wearing identical red shirts

http://www.fark.com/comments/73532 24

Poor grammer can effect you're career

http://www.fark.com/comments/73110 69

Researchers say shy fish have better survival odds -- not necessarily koi, just shy

http://www.fark.com/comments/73958 95

Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" opens in theaters, despite the fact that Lincoln historically doesn't do well in theaters

http://www.fark.com/comments/74314 28

"Texas day care owner gets 80 years in fire that killed four kids". Seems a bit much, she'll probably burn to death in the first three or four minutes, anyway

http://www.fark.com/comments/74442 50

Vegetative patient clinically shown to be conscious after 12 years, has limited communication, given job greenlighting Fark links

http://www.fark.com/comments/74322 61