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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 2 1 2 Headlines, headlines - read all about it! #59533 03/04/02 11:53 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 771 Portland, Oregon Fiberbabe OP old hand OP Fiberbabe old hand Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 771 Portland, Oregon Just got this by email, and I thought you might enjoy some of these ~ Sparteye, you'll love #22! Best Verified Newspaper Headlines of the Year... 1.) Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Space 2.) Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Experts Say 3.) Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers 4.) Drunks Get Nine Months in Violin Case 5.) Iraqi Head Seeks Arms 6.) Is There a Ring of Debris around Uranus? 7.) Prostitutes Appeal to Pope 8.) Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over 9.) British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands 10.) Teacher Strikes Idle Kids 11.) Clinton Wins Budget; More Lies Ahead 12.) Plane Too Close to Ground, Crash Probe Told 13.) Miners Refuse to Work After Death 14.) Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant 15.) Stolen Painting Found by Tree 16.) Two Sisters Reunited after 18 Years in Checkout Counter 17.) War Dims Hope for Peace 18.) If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last a While 19.) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide 20.) Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge 21.) New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group 22.) Include Your Children When Baking Cookies 23.) Kids Make Nutritious Snacks 24.) Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half 25.) Typhoon Rips through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Headlines, headlines - read all about it! #59534 03/04/02 05:35 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 96 Blackpool England D duncan large journeyman duncan large journeyman D Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 96 Blackpool England My personal favourite is a soccer headline, Celtic the most powerful and rich soccer team in Scotland were knocked out of the cup by a bunch of amateurs called: Inverness Caledonian Thistle, known as "cally" the headline? SUPER CALLY GO BALLISTIC CELTIC ARE ATROCIOUS ! the Duncster the Duncster Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Headlines, headlines - read all about it! #59535 03/05/02 02:18 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Oh, F-babe, I have tears streaming! Oh, man! These are great! Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers Reckon they'd better become jayrunners, then. British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands Good heavens, I took this literally for a minute! Miners Refuse to Work After Death Should have had DND on their headstones instead of RIP. Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant Apparently detention didn't work. Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge Gee, will he use his bare hands? New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group I volunteer. Kids Make Nutritious Snacks Only the vegetarian ones. Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half Yow--talk about incentive for staying in school! Typhoon Rips through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead Well...duh! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Headlines, headlines - read all about it! #59536 03/05/02 09:47 AM Joined: May 2000 Posts: 679 Somewhere outside New York R Rubrick addict Rubrick addict R Joined: May 2000 Posts: 679 Somewhere outside New York I saw two great headlines when I live in London in the late '80s. One was about a library strike in a small town calle Onger. It read: BOOK LACK IN ONGER The other (a bit more dubious) was about an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Paul McCartney. It read: TOP POP MOP-TOP POT-SHOT PLOT FLOPS! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Headlines, headlines - read all about it! #59537 03/05/02 01:39 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA W wow Carpal Tunnel wow Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA Read these posts yesterday and today and cannot stop laughing ... since I am an Aquarian #6 had me rolling on the floor! Hilarious!! Ah well, as Grandmother used to say : "A good laugh is as good as a good cry any day!" I'm feeling *much better now! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Headlines, headlines - read all about it! #59538 03/05/02 10:34 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 K Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel K Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 Supermarket-tabloid headline: "BIN LADEN'S WILD NIGHT WITH A GOAT." Outraged protest has been registered by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Headlines, headlines - read all about it! #59539 03/06/02 03:37 AM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada M modestgoddess old hand modestgoddess old hand M Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada I used to work at a newspaper, and one of the reporters told me about a rather unfortunate typo in the headline to a story of hers about how upset parents and others were at the notion of the school board putting condom machines in the washrooms of the town's schools: CONDOM DEBATE RAISES PUBIC OUTCRY Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Headlines, headlines - read all about it! #59540 03/06/02 05:45 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Our local weekly had this heading on a story a couple of weeks back: LOCAL POLICE, RESCUE RECEIVE JOINT TRAINING Let's see...first, you screen out the tops and seeds...then you take the rolling paper... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Headlines, headlines - read all about it! #59541 03/06/02 07:24 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Once when I was in the printing side of the newspaper industry, I set a late caption for a picture of an RNZAF aircraft (when the air force still had aircraft) assisting a yacht in trouble in the Taranaki Bight (nice bit of cross-threading there, CK!). Right in the middle of Page 1. The caption I set read: "An RNZAF Orion drops farts to the crew of the foundering yacht." Guess which word I transposed the letters in? This occasioned a rather fraught trip to the MDs office to explain myself ... The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Headlines, headlines - read all about it! #59542 03/06/02 09:52 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 R RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah R Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 Now, had the yacht been becalmed - - - (reminds me of the verse which starts: "The Second Mate's name was Carter, ..." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 1 of 2 1 2 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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