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Its good but no newspaper headline beats this:
After inverness beat Celtic at football
That's a great story, but a terrible headline, SR.
'Spot the idiot!' would be the tabloid version.
Freddy Starr ate my hamster. The Sun
World War 2 Bomber Found on Moon, 14 August 1988. Sunday Sport
World War 2 Bomber Found on Moon Vanishes, 21 August 1988. Sunday Sport.
Australia: hold my beer...
Edit: Apologies, I think I have posted the first one previously.
MPS UP ALL NIGHT WITH HOMOSEXUAL BILL
not a headline, but Jo Whiley once said "Lets hear the latest sound from Courtney Loves Hole"
Lolz @ Hols!
Gotta love The Sport.
My faves: Shoots You
and
I've Been Stabbed I Say, I've Been Stabbed
(both about true events sadly)
and
World Hide and Seek Champion Found Dead in Cupboard
(maybe not true)
from last year I think.
https://twitter.com/marinamaral2/status/1305100836222238726
https://twitter.com/marinamaral2/status/1305105598741176320
Always tickled by “Ball Bags Breakfast”
https://twitter.com/mrjakehumphrey/status/1047477526854086657?s=21
To give some local relevance to the Titanic disaster -
From that Poke list
That's the pinnacle of the page layout craft!
Britannia Waives The Rules in the i was good this week
Not sure if it was really a headline but
" 5,000 British troops enter Jordan
- busy weekend even by the ex glamour model's standards 😉
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The surely apocryphal Yorkshire Post headline from February 1952:
"Former Duke of York Dead"
And a real one, best read out loud:
"Rhubarb Woman Gets Custody"
The reason things have to have warning labels...
I love this one:
I love this one:
Bloody Australians for ya!
Another contender...
And one from my old patch (long after my departure)...
https://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/body-found-in-potters-bar-cemetery-1-16954
Loving those last two....
Two I remember from my youth.
Midget in violin case
And
Prostitutes appeal to pope.
My favourite effort of my own was when a story emerged about Jimi Hendrix faking being homosexual in order to avoid being drafted into the army.
So my headline was: Excuse me while I kiss this guy
I was very pleased with myself, and amazed I didn't see it used anywhere else.
Hmmph, well it got headline of the week in Press Gazette IIRC.
Well I liked it.
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Lol, some great ones there but I must admit, it's the unintentional ones that i love the most.
Great thread op.😁
This made me smirk from that Poke link...
While I respect what the Sport does, I think it's more comedy than real headline writing. Too easy if you're just making the story up rather than creating something to fit a real-life event.
That could not look more like a Sovietwomble video. "Right lads, we're going to sneak up on the enemy base, I need some of you to go around the flank and... no, what... what are you doing?"
This made me snort:
BBC News - Cancer patient's leg treated in separate Glasgow hospital
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-54724837
Did they remove it or what?
Did they remove it or what?
Did you read it or what?
“Police Find Crack Between Drug Dealer’s Buttocks”
Did you read it or what?
Being as the thread topic was about headlines , ya know the attention grabbing often misleading part and not the article , why would he have. I suggest going back an reaquainting yourself with the thread headline.
^my point exactly, the headline made me laugh and I did read the article.
@donncha - 22 just killed me. 😂
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2017/02/03/39-funniest-headlines-ever-printed//blockquote >
She's played that octopus story admirably straight.
Must try not to spend the next 15 mins coming up with a punny alternative. Too much work on.
No.16 killed it "Man goes to Mexico to kill himself, spend week doing drugs and banging hookers. Decides to carry on living.
Two that spring to mind
'fog in channel continent cut off'
and from a David Frost tv sketch
Sex Change Bishop in Midnight Dash to Palace.
There is the every so slightly racist private eye headline from a long while back when the Japanese emperor was visiting the UK ( He was ruler during WW2 and thus responsible for the burma railway the =killing of many captured commonwealth soldiers)
I liked the Star's one a few weeks ago re: Boris, Hancock & Cummins:
That chimney one reminds me of a recent thread - ‘find the bastard who shat in my bin!’ 😀
Ooh, that Eye one has aged badly.
I took this photo ... didn't buy the paper though.
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When i was working as a journalist I once got a 'lead' (wait for it...).
In the previous day's lost and found there was a notice about an escaped dog.
Then a little further on, a notice that someone had found a dog. A slow news day story waiting to be written. So I took a photographer (those were the days) out to do a couple of interviews and photos of the dog.
I submitted the story with the header "Lost and Found Hound."
... the 'story' ran, but with some lame header about the dog saying sorry! That year I came runner up in a journalism prize. I swear I would have won if that had been printed as submitted. 😛 Gutted.
Great thread. That monkey one destroyed me.
joefm's article
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1429335848823267329
https://twitter.com/yendorcire/status/1439076989151768579