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Newspaper bloopers

  • 18-09-2009 08:55PM
    #1
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭


    May cheer you up on a lonely Friday night

    Newspaper Ads

    The following are ads from a real-life newspaper (so I’ve been told) which appeared four days in a row - the last three hopelessly trying to correct the first day’s mistake.
    ■MONDAY: For sale: R.D. Jones has one sewing machine for sale. Phone 948-0707 after 7 P.M.. and ask for Mrs. Kelly who lives with him cheap.
    ■TUESDAY: Notice: We regret having erred in R.D. Jones’ ad yesterday. It should have read “One sewing machine for sale cheap. Phone 948-0707 and ask for Mrs. Kelly, who lives with him after 7 P.M.”
    ■WEDNESDAY: Notice: R.D. Jones has informed us that he has received several annoying telephone calls because of the error we made in the classified ad yesterday. The ad stands correct as follows: “For sale — R.D. Jones has one sewing machine for sale. Cheap. Phone 948-0707 after 7 P.M. and ask for Mrs. Kelly who loves with him.”
    ■THURSDAY: Notice: I, R.D. Jones, have no sewing machine for sale. I smashed it. Don’t call 948-0707 as I have had the phone disconnected. I have not been carrying on with Mrs. Kelly. Until yesterday she was my housekeeper but she quit!

    Lots here:
    http://www.valleybugler.com/2009/02/newspaper-bloopers/


Comments

  • #2
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    There was one in the Daily Mail or something like that, apparently, after Pope John Paul I died not long after his predecessor, Paul VI.

    "POPE DIES AGAIN"


  • #3
    rainbowdrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭rainbowdrop


    Remember reading in a newspaper a few years ago about a Romanian guy that killed himself on his wedding day, after finding his best man in bed with his new wife at the wedding reception:eek:

    The headline was "groom ties the knot twice in one day":D


  • #4
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Remember Freddie Star ate my Hamster tabloid headline ?

    beats Jordens '' I woz Raped ' front page any day


  • #5
    Orla K
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,462 ✭✭✭Orla K


    In the kildare nationalist there was a headline which said

    Missionary positions wanted

    I read the full article and they wanted people to go to Africa for them.


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