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Posted By: Fiberbabe Headlines, headlines - read all about it! - 03/04/02 11:53 AM
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


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
Posted By: Jackie Re: Headlines, headlines - read all about it! - 03/05/02 02:18 AM
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!

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!

Posted By: wow Re: Headlines, headlines - read all about it! - 03/05/02 01:39 PM
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!

Posted By: Keiva Re: Headlines, headlines - read all about it! - 03/05/02 10:34 PM
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.



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

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...

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 ...

Now, had the yacht been becalmed - - -


(reminds me of the verse which starts:
"The Second Mate's name was Carter, ..."


An oldie but goodie (my apologies if I have mentioned it before). The headline after an unfortunate incident where a lunatic escaped after raping laundry workers:

NUT SCREWS WASHERS & BOLTS

Bingley
Posted By: Jackie Re: Headlines, headlines - read all about it! - 03/07/02 12:59 PM
my apologies if I have mentioned it before
You did, my dear Bingley, but it is well worth bringing up again--'specially since I for one had forgotten it.

Rhuby's pome, though--I don't believe I know that one, and I think that if anyone would care to enlighten me it had better be privately...

Posted By: jmh Re: Variety Headlines - 03/08/02 07:43 AM
We y'all know how much I enjoy a little Google. Well I's bin searchin' for days and those darn Variety headlines are pretty darn elusive. So I'll be dishin' out serious respect for any of youz who can post a link to some of those great headlines from years gone by. You knows the ones with weird abbreviation that go on forever (or maybe I'm wrong and it wasn't Variety).

Posted By: of troy Re: Variety Headlines - 03/08/02 12:46 PM
Hix Nix Stix Pix
(Hicks Nix Sticks Pic's or rural viewers dislike how hollywoods portraits them.)

is the most famous Varity headline i know. i guess i thought everyone knew it, and it was too trite.

Posted By: Kupatchka Re: Variety Headlines - 03/08/02 11:28 PM
Just before Easter a few years ago, our local paper had the heading "Moose Egg Hunt Planned". This same paper let the following headline get by -- "Your Ready For College Now".

Posted By: jmh Re: Variety Headlines - 03/09/02 12:04 AM
>Hix Nix Stix Pix

Thanks Helen, that was the one that I was trying to remember.

Posted By: slithy toves Re: Variety Headlines - 03/09/02 01:10 AM
PIX NIX CRIX SHTICKS.

Author/s: Jonathan Bing
Issue: March 13, 2000


Another Variety headline, from a column objecting to some contemporary film critics.

Posted By: francais31415 Re: Headlines - 03/09/02 02:36 AM
Hey, did you guys hear about those new corduroy pillowcases? They're making headlines all over!

And here are some more headlines:

Stadium Air Conditioning Fails - Fans Protest

Queen Mary Having Bottom Scraped

LA Voters Approve Urban Renewal By Landslide

March Planned For Next August

Patient At Death's Door - Doctors Pull him Through


from 1994-95


Study Finds Sex, Pregnancy Link
-Cornell Daily Sun, December 7, 1995

Survey Finds Dirtier Subways After Cleaning Jobs Were Cut
-The New York Times, November 22

Larger Kangaroos Leap Farther, Researchers Find
-The Los Angeles Times, November 2

'Light' meals are lower in fat, calories
-Huntington Herald-Dispatch, November 30

Alcohol ads promote drinking
-The Hartford Courant, November 18

Malls try to attract shoppers
-The Baltimore Sun, October 22

Official: Only rain will cure drought
-The Herald-News, Westpost, Massachusetts

Teen-age girls often have babies fathered by men
-The Sunday Oregonian, September 24

Low Wages Said Key to Poverty
-Newsday, July 11

Man shoots neighbor with machete
-The Miami Herald, July 3

Tomatoes come in big, little, medium sizes
-The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Virginia, March 30

Dirty-Air Cities Far Deadlier Than Clean Ones, Study Shows
-The New York Times, March 10

Scientists see quakes in L.A. future
-The Oregonian, January 28

Free Advice: Bundle up when out in the cold
-Lexington Herald-Leader, January 26

Prosecution paints O.J. as a wife-killer
-Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, January 25

Economist uses theory to explain economy
-Collinsville Herald-Journal, February 8

Bible church's focus is the Bible
-Saint Augustine Record, Florida, December 3, 1994

Clinton pledges restraint in use of nuclear weapons
-Cedar Rapids Gazette, April 6

Court Rules Boxer Shorts Are Indeed Underwear
-Journal of Commerce, April 20

Lack of brains hinders research
-The Columbus Dispatch, April 16

How we feel about ourselves is the core of self-esteem, says author Louise Hart
-Boulder, Colorado, Sunday Camera, February 5

Fish lurk in streams
-Rochester, New York, Democrat & Chronicle, January 29

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