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  • brooess
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    Just spotted this on MSN

    Quadruple Amputee On The Run After His Parents Were Murdered ‘Is Armed & Dangerous’

    Somehow I doubt very much that he’s armed OR on the run 🙂

    kayak23
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    northshoreniall
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    Man Dies after woman fatally stabbed
    Pilot awake after fatal crash
    Both had me confused over weekend, was wondering if work experience person doing weekend headlines.

    BigButSlimmerBloke
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    Swiss football team Young Boys of Bern had some problems with the rebuilding of their ground, the Stade de Suisse Wankdorf, which were eventually resolved to everyone’s great relief. Leading to

    Young Boys Wankdorf erection relief

    DezB
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    Young Boys Wankdorf erection relief

    That is superb! 😆

    chip
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    geetee1972
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    I will always remember this one:

    Dyke to head BBC

    Equality is one thing but I thought that headline was going too far.

    steve-g
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    johndoh
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    Love that one Chip – not only fat armed, but an array of cooking utensils in the background too 🙂

    njee20
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    Children evacuated from swimming pool after prosthetic leg mistaken for paedophile

    Genuinely LOLing at that!

    thestabiliser
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    On the BEEB today. Jimmy White: ‘i never took coke sober’. more amusing than inappropritate really but I’m counting it.

    CaptainFlashheart
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    American headline writers seem to excel at this.

    chakaping
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    ‘Elderly woman beat off attacker’.

    Not my finest moment as a news sub editor, but it was before the american term for a hand shandy was quite so well established.

    Northwind
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