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Actual Newspaper Headlines

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Actual Newspaper Headlines

Some are just slips of the tongue

* Grandmother of Eight Makes Hole In One
* Deaf Mute Gets New Hearing In Killing
* Police begin campaign to run down jaywalkers
* House passes gas tax onto senate
* Stiff opposition expected to casketless funeral plan
* Two convicts evade noose, jury hung
* William Kelly was fed secretary
* Milk drinkers are turning to powder
* Safety experts say school bus passengers should be belted
* Quarter of a million Chinese live on water
* Farmer Bill Dies in House
* Iraqi head seeks arms


Some become unintentionally suggestive

* Queen Mary having bottom scraped
* Is there a ring of debris around Uranus?
* Prostitutes appeal to Pope
* Panda mating fails - veterinarian takes over
* NJ judge to rule on nude beach
* Child's stool great for use in garden
* Dr. Ruth to talk about sex with newspaper editors
* Soviet virgin lands short of goal again
* Organ festival ends in smashing climax


Grammar often botches other headlines

* Eye drops off shelf
* Squad helps dog bite victim
* Dealers will hear car talk at noon
* Enraged cow injures farmer with ax
* Lawmen from Mexico barbecue guests
* Miners refuse to work after death
* Two Soviet ships collide - one dies
* Two sisters reunite after eighteen years at checkout counter

Once in a while, a botched headline takes on a meaning opposite from the one intended:

* Never withhold herpes from loved one
* Nicaragua sets goal to wipe out literacy
* Drunk drivers paid $1,000 in 1984
* Autos killing 110 a day, let's resolve to do better


Sometimes newspaper editors state the obvious

* If strike isn't settled quickly it may last a while
* War dims hope for peace
* Smokers are productive, but death cuts efficiency
* Cold wave linked to temperatures
* Child's death ruins couple's holiday
* Blind woman gets new kidney from dad she hasn't seen in years
* Man is fatally slain
* Something went wrong in jet crash, experts say
* Death causes loneliness, feeling of isolation
 
Geodude said:
* Child's death ruins couple's holiday
* Blind woman gets new kidney from dad she hasn't seen in years
xD
Ohh man, that's good.

There's always stuff like this on Headlines (Jay Leno: The Tonight Show), can't think of any though ;.;
 
Have you been collecting these for a while, or did you just find a list or something online?

Still, these are pretty darn funny .... and I second Dark Fire's remark, these DO belong on Leno. :)
 
Haha... I've heard most of those, except for about 5. Pretty funny stuff.


A few more

-Air head fired
-Stud tires out
-Drunk gets nine months in violin case
-Survivor of Siamese twins joins parents
-British left waffles on Falkland Islands
-Lung cancer in women mushrooms
-Teacher strikes idle kids
-Reagan wins on budget, but more lies ahead
-Shot off woman's leg helps Nicklaus to 66
-Plane too close to ground, crash probe told
-Juvenile court to try shooting defendant
-Stolen painting found by tree
-Killer sentenced to die for second time in 10 years
-Enfields couple slain; police suspect homicide
-Red Tape holds up new bridge
-Deer kill 17,000
-Typhoon rips through cemetary; hundreds dead
-Man struck by lightning faces battery charge
-Astronaut takes blame for gas in spacecraft
-Kids make nutricious snacks
-Chef throws his heart into helping feed needy
-Arson suspect is held in Massachusetts fire
-British Union finds dwarfs in short supply
-Ban on soliciting dead in Trotwood
-Lansing residents can drop off trees
-Local high school dropouts cut in half
-New vaccine may contain rabies
-Man minus ear weaves hearing
-Deaf college opens doors for hearing
-High school pillars replaced by alumni
-Hospital sued by seven foot doctors

Too lazy to sort them... hehe


~Zak
 
All journalism majors are familiar with these. ;)
 
Rayne said:
Have you been collecting these for a while, or did you just find a list or something online?
The latter.
 
I was watching Jay Leno today, an old episode with "Headlines" in it. Anyway I always find the typos to be the funniest. For example in this episode he get a newspaper that should have read: "Column Painting. Interior and Exterior." but due to some sloppy typing came out as: "Colon Painting. Interior and Exterior"
Got a good laugh out of that one.
 
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