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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/
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