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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.
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?"