head lines

[mollymandy]

what are the funniest head lines you have ever seen ?

[robbo82]

When Inverness Caledonian Thistle comprehensively beat Celtic in the Scottish Cup a few years ago one of the papers ran the headline:

'Super Cally Go Balistic, Celtic are Atrocious'.

Brilliant!

[B00]

Some good 'uns 'ere :-)

http://www.alphadictionary.com/fun/headlines.h tml

[darth vader]

Not so much the headline but the story that followed it.

The Daily Mirror posted "For you ze Euro 96 is over" in a comedic gesture against the germans who (ironically) beat us in the semi finals. This was i suppose funny by itself, but reading Piers Morgan's (then Editor of the Mirror) autobiography, he was subsequently invited to some anglo-german awards ceremony to receive a booby prize for best contribution to anglo-german relations (or something like that)

He did not go, but instead sent his deputy-editor, who on receiving the award announced, "although i was involved in the creation of the news story, i was only following orders"

made me laugh

[Craig007]

Pedro Diniz, a F1 racing driver in the 1990's was involved in a car fire during a race and there was a picture of him in his car while the flames were coming out of the engine with the headline underneath..............................................

DINIZ IN THE OVEN!!!!!!!

[vehelpfulguy]

Many years ago, when Brian Clough was in charge of Notts Forest, they were playing in Europe.

The team they were playing bought on a substitute who was Japanese, and he scored 2 goals to put Forest out.

The headline the next day was:

Forest sunk by Japanese sub.

[lankeela]

Wot? No mention of 'Freddie Star ate my hamster'?

[lankeela]

What about the lunatic who raped some laundry workers and ran off. The local paper didn't want to scare the public, so printed the headline 'Nut Screws Washers and Bolts'

[reinganum]

I got this one from a book on newspaper style and design.

Compositors were instructed to avoid unfortunate line-breaks which would change the meaning of the headline. To illustrate this, a report of some action during the closing stages of WWII should have read:

FRENCH PUSH
BOTTLES UP
GERMAN REAR

Unfortunately, the compositor saw fit to set this on two lines of type, thus:

FRENCH PUSH BOTTLES
UP GERMAN REAR

Hilarious!!

[darth vader]

...and of course there was the time the german footballer Fuchs (I forget his first name) got transferred to Barcelona FC (it was about 4 years ago). The headline was on one of the sports news websites - "Fuchs off to Barcelona"

[darth vader]

reading the Cloughie anecdote reminds me of the time Brian was on the touchline and tried to slap a hooligan as he ran past (I think to celebrate a Forest goal). Greavsie (Of "Saint and Greavsie" fame) said on the ITV program "it really was a case of the **** hitting the fan"

[darth vader]

forgot about the profanity filter

"It really was a case of the $h1t hitting the fan"