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Thread: Interesting newspaper headlines
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Moo
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Here is a fine collection.
Moo
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Gee D
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During the Watergate scandal, a NY paper is said to have published with the headline "Thought it was legal, buggers said". That was, of course, at a time when sodomy was an offence in many parts of the world.
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Lyda*Rose
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Jay Leno has gotten good mileage out of headlines and various typos. Here's his archive.The pictures you see in the squares are show-written headlines. But click on them and you get about a dozen real newspaper report, product, and ad bloopers.
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doubtingthomas
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Some years back in the local rag:
"Archbishop backs nuns in pub fight"
(really about the question of whether or not a pub should open opposite a monastery)
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Pigwidgeon
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quote:
Originally posted by doubtingthomas:
Some years back in the local rag:
"Archbishop backs nuns in pub fight"
(really about the question of whether or not a pub should open opposite a monastery)
It was so much better without the explanation!
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Mamacita
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In 1977, New York was hit by a massive power failure. NYC's fiery mayor Abe Beame railed against the electric company, leading to this headline in (IIRC) the New York Post:
Lights Back On But Beame Blows Fuse
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Moo
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One of my favorites was HEADLESS MAN DIED OF BRAIN INJURY.
The backstory is that the body of a man whose head had been cut off was discovered. Apparently something found in the autopsy of the body told the pathologist that the cause of death was a brain injury.
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Adeodatus
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The UK government today approved a process for extracting gas from shale. The headline on the BBC tv news read
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FRACKING DECISION
Well yes ... that's quite close to what some people are calling it.
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balaam
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At least the BBC news, in covering the antifracking protests, tried not to show the slogan FRACK OFF. It is more common than their footage shows.
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blackbeard
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It is believed by some that, many pre-Eurostar years ago, the Times carried a headline, or what passed as a Times headline in those days,
THICK FOG IN CHANNEL
Continent cut off.
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Stejjie
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Not quite a headline, but the same sort of thing. According to Private Eye, the BBC's Royal Correspondent tweeted, in response to the news of the Duchess of Cambridge's pregnancy:
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If William and Kate's child is a boy, the Palace say it'll be a prince; a girl will be a princess.
Thanks for clearing that up...
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St. Stephen the Stoned
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Apologies for re-posting this, but it still amuses me.
Nuneaton’s local paper, The Tribune, carried a story a few years ago about a police officer who had just split up with his girlfriend. Off duty, he drove to the nearby town of Atherstone for a few drinks to drown his sorrows. After three half-pints of lager (so he said) he drove back into Nuneaton on the A444, where his car struck and killed a cow which had wandered onto the road. The policeman went to the farmer’s house to report the incident; the farmer, no doubt mindful of the requirements of his insurance policy, phoned the police. When they arrived they breathalysed the officer, who proved to be over the limit and was duly prosecuted for drink-driving.
Headline:
Cow Killed On Weddington Road After Night In Pub
The image of drunken cows wandering the North Warwickshire lanes remains with me. I wish I were a cartoonist.
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