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MrJoeSoap

Good, I've caught your attention. Why? Probably the headline.

The art of the headline is a delicate one. Make it too boring and nobody will care, make it too extreme and you run the risk of making it sound like something from Weekly World News. A play on words is usually a good start, and incorporating someones name (or part thereof) into the headline in a different context is usually a winner.

On the NHL website this morning there were a couple of fairly standard classics after Patrick Kane scored a winning penalty shot last night.

• Give this man a Pat on the back
• Kane is Able

Then of course there are the "stating the obvious" headlines.

• Plane Too Close to Ground, Crash Probe Told
• Miners refuse to work after death
• War dims hope for peace

The "hang on a second" ones, with questionable grammar or choice of words

• Hospitals are Sued by Seven Foot Doctors
• New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group
• Killer Sentenced to Die for Second Time in 10 Years
• Deaf Mute To Get New Hearing

And the down-right clever.

• Prostitutes Appeal To Pope
• Super Callie Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious
• Typhoon Rips Through Cemetary, Hundreds Dead

Anyone got any more good ones?

Terry

The only one I can think of right now is the classic from the Springfield Shopper:

"Deadbeat dad beat dead."

projectmayhem

MrJoeSoap wrote:

Anyone got any more good ones?

"free pr0n for all"

SimpleSam06

Awww, and I thought this thread was about exciting new developments in the field of taxidermy.

Archeron

A spelling mistake in the Tallaght Echo a year or so back led to the headline "Renovated house stormed by wokmen". They missed an r.

Ghost Train

projectmayhem wrote:

"free pr0n for all"

sex sells
sex ftw

tallus

when Jos Versappen's benneton F1 car burst into flames at a grand prix fuel stop:
The back page of one of the tabloids on the monday morning was:
Ignited colours of Benetton

Dennis the Stone

When the actor John Savident, who played Fred Eliott in Coronation Street, was stabbed in the neck, the headline in the sun (or mirror) was:
"I'VE BEEN STABBED, I SAY, I'VE BEEN STABBED"

Feral Mutant

I found this one funny
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Black Swan

Headline: "Thread is dead!"

yomchi

Remember the Foreign guy found dead in the suit case dumped in the canal?

I think it was the North side people ran with:

'Gardai seek publics help in getting to the bottom of this case'.

I kid you not!

mwrf

Jon wrote:

Remember the Foreign guy found dead in the suit case dumped in the canal?

He was the 1984 Irish Hide and Seek Champion.

Fanny Cradock

No nobby bobby keeps jobbie

A classic form the sun about a PC who had a sex change

astrofool

I remember reading the Herald at work once, and thought it would be funny if headlines were literal, the headline was:

"Evil pervert takes flight."

humanji

There was one in the herald a while ago that said "Police Seek Four Armed Raiders". Made me giggle.

beans

After Kieth Chegwin came out and admitted he was struggling with a drink problem:

Cheggers can't be boozers

Some witty tabloidology right there.

digitally-yours

MrJoeSoap wrote:

Good, I've caught your attention.

Not really...

humanji

digitally-yours wrote:

Not really...

Well, aparently enough to make you post here.

tc20

In a local regional weekly paper -

"Old people make lovely bedspreads"

well, do they?

Grolschevik

On back sports page of an English tabloid regarding a footballer's sporting success, a few years ago:

"Dickov delight"

Jesus Wept

FREDDIE STARR ATE MY HAMSTER



In my cousin's school, the students brought out a magazine called:




This magazine has nothing to do with
SEX


Principle wasn't happy, but Sex Sells.

User45701

Feral Mutant wrote:

I found this one funny
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HA HA HA HA thats ****ing brilliant, i know one or two people who would love that.