Bowdiddley Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 How many times in the history of mankind has there been an opportunity to write a headline like this? I cracked up when I saw this one! http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6622I420100703 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Bow... Whew! Somebody wasn't thinking - or they didn't care. Up to now my faves have been from some local headline writers. This one I didn't believe until I actually saw it. Some 50 years ago when there was such a thing as a "Women's Club" that was THE big deal for "housewives" when they really existed in what once was a "middle class".... There was a guy who manufactured home-size pipe organs. He gave a program for some 50 ladies at the women's club. The newspaper headline was: "Yankton man displays organ at women's club." There are lots more, but... <grin> m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Will Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 nice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Milod, you'd appreciate this one. I used to work for a sister paper of the big local paper. We could always count on the bigger paper to make some terrific mistakes. The best one I've ever seen: Lakers go here dufus breath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Very funny. You couldn't make up something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eallenb Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 NaaaaaaH they knew what they were doing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbabig Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Miners Refuse to Work After Death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Yeah, whenever somebody gets silly, they write things where they shouldn't. Ah, the tales I could tell. <grin> m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowdiddley Posted July 9, 2010 Author Share Posted July 9, 2010 I'm glad it was printed, cause it made my day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon S. Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 How many times in the history of mankind has there been an opportunity to write a headline like this? I cracked up when I saw this one! http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6622I420100703 Wow! That is one of the funniest things i've seen in a long time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbluesplayer Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Miners Refuse to Work After Death. That one gets my vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeVeeWee Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flight959 Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Should have wrote: "Gay desperately runs behind dix" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbabig Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Should have wrote: "Gay desperately runs behind dix" Dix tease desperate Gay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowdiddley Posted July 9, 2010 Author Share Posted July 9, 2010 You know if Gay had only won.... "Dix comes in behind Gay" I'm sorry! :- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daryl M Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 I still have the newspaper clipping from the front page of my home town paper a few years ago when (You can't make this stuff up), the fire department burned down. Yea...the FIRE department. They had a wonderful picture of the building, including the fire truck, in full flame. Nothing like life in a small southern town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted July 9, 2010 Share Posted July 9, 2010 FYI, Reuters pulled the web page with their interesting headline. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowdiddley Posted July 11, 2010 Author Share Posted July 11, 2010 Someone likely was taken out behind the woodshed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Believe it or not there are still (variously spelled ) Womens Clubs / Womans Clubs around. Among other things they provide scholarships to students to attend summer academic camps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 My favourite pair both come from 'The Times' in the pre-Murdoch era. A long while ago The (London) Times' copywriters had an unofficial contest between them to see who could get the least interesting headline published. The winner was "Small earthquake in Bolivia. Not many injured". Then there was the report of an inmate from a lunatic asylum who sexually assaulted a cleaning-lady before making his escape. The headline? "Nut Screws Washer and Bolts". Really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowdiddley Posted July 12, 2010 Author Share Posted July 12, 2010 My favourite pair both come from 'The Times' in the pre-Murdoch era. A long while ago The (London) Times' copywriters had an unofficial contest between them to see who could get the least interesting headline published. The winner was "Small earthquake in Bolivia. Not many injured". Then there was the report of an inmate from a lunatic asylum who sexually assaulted a cleaning-lady before making his escape. The headline? "Nut Screws Washer and Bolts". Really. Now thats funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbabig Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 Now thats funny! I hate to laugh at something like that, but it's funny as hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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