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.

Not a headline, exactly, but should be.

Needs more flamethrowing guitar…. pic.twitter.com/A2yqv9F8mZ

— Tom Blersch (@Tom_Blersch) October 31, 2020

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.

https://twitter.com/bimadew/status/1336549885236088834

Scientists have discovered that, on occasions, an octopus will “punch” a fish for no reason other than “spite”https://t.co/o3uYm1iiN6

— Abbie Cheeseman (@cheesemanab) December 23, 2020

@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.

https://t.co/wCo5odPYV9

Scientists Made Snails Remember Something That Never Happened to Them

The research has echoes of studies from the 1960s involving flatworms.… https://t.co/vnjr3ezO7n

— Jennifer Heath (@jendarrheath) December 30, 2019

No.16 killed it  “Man goes to Mexico to kill himself, spend week doing drugs and banging hookers. Decides to carry on living.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/science/moray-eels-eat-land.html

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.

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.

Man almost masturbates himself to death after suffering a stroke

This Chyron operator is all of us. https://t.co/Ql9K7ydJix

— Hil.i.am (@hilaryluros) July 29, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/science/moray-eels-eat-land.html

Paedophiles hiding in your house

Great thread. That monkey one destroyed me.

joefm’s article

Harvesting your own seed is one of gardening’s great pleasures https://t.co/N0RVi7ZnwA

— The Guardian (@guardian) August 22, 2021

There wasn't any ambiguity to the original either. It just belongs in a different magazine.

— Rod Hillen (@yendorcire) September 18, 2021