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Beatles on a stick: Crave alternative headline competition results!

Yesterday we reported that EMI is to make the Beatles back catalogue available on memory stick. The combination of the Fab Four and the humble USB stick had our pun-sense tingling, so we threw it open to Twitter. Here are some of the most chucklesome responses:

EMI sticks it to Apple
Alex Norcliffe
nails the story and gets in a pun. Textbook.

Love you 2.0 (we think he meant Love Me 2.0 UPDATE Turns out Love You To is from Revolver. Thanks Chris Boyd)
Penny Drive
Magical Memory Stick
All our songs on an Apple USB
(to the tune of Yellow Submarine)
Nick Bridgeman
's efforts might take a second but they're worth it.

480 Mbits a Week
Maximum geek points for Kieran Lefort.

Strawberry form-fields forever
Don't let me download
8-bit days a week
Back in the CPUSSR

Good work from Luke Westaway (and his girlfriend).

Digg A Pony
Getting Blitter
Got To Get YouTube Into iLife
Here Comes The Sun Server
Lovely Beta
Tweet And Shout
When I'm 64bits
.exe Sadie

A fine showing from Rupert Goodwins, editor of our sister site ZDNet UK.

I am the USB
Goo goo g'joob, James Kendall.

Here's a bonus selection from the Crave team:

Let it USB (Rich)
Get FLAC (Nick)
From Me To USB (Nate)
Yellow Subroutine (Nate)

Runners-up:

Lucy in the sky with dial-up
Luke Westaway

Across the Universal Serial Bus
Bruce McLachlan and Kieran Lefort

The winner

The winning tweet, as judged by the official CNET newsdesk laugh-o-meter:

Back in the USSB
Kieran Lefort

Kieran wins, er, our esteem and applause. Until the next Crave alternative headline competition, long live the Headline King!

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