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Headline fails
by Ben Reilly Sat Dec 31, 2016 6:36 pm
(Think they were looking for the word "ambidextrous")
("Cook"!!!!)
(Just, no.)
(Come on!)
(Think that one's my favorite.)
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Re: Headline fails
by JulesV Sun Jan 01, 2017 6:37 pm
Hahaha funyyyy! 
I also have a list of funny, misleading headlines but I've misplaced it.
Headlines need to be concise because of space issues so there is a lot of scope for confusion, ambiguity and accidental double-entendres.
I also have a list of funny, misleading headlines but I've misplaced it.
Headlines need to be concise because of space issues so there is a lot of scope for confusion, ambiguity and accidental double-entendres.
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Re: Headline fails
by Fred Moletrousers Sun Jan 01, 2017 9:22 pm
Jules wrote:Hahaha funyyyy!
I also have a list of funny, misleading headlines but I've misplaced it.
Headlines need to be concise because of space issues so there is a lot of scope for confusion, ambiguity and accidental double-entendres.
A headline sells a story; the text tells it.
I once had a list of rib-tickling headlines which I used during my days as a visiting tutor in journalism at an English university.
One of my all time favourites was from the wartime News Chronicle: "British push bottles up Germans." (You have to read it out loud with a very slight pause in the right place.)
Or on one particularly slow news day the Daily Telegraph was given to printing a very small paragraph headed "Small earthquake in Peru. Not many dead."
I have to admit, with bowed head, that as the duty editorial executive responsible for signing off pages in an evening newspaper I once let through without noticing: "National Farters' Union oppose fertiliser restrictions."
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Re: Headline fails
by Ben Reilly Mon Jan 02, 2017 2:26 pm
I knew an editor who wrote up a "whitewater farting" (rafting) event. We also once reported on a drive to improve "litercy" that was obviously sorely needed.
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Re: Headline fails
by JulesV Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:21 pm
Haven't found my missing list of funny headlines yet, but here are a couple off google
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Re: Headline fails
by JulesV Tue Jan 31, 2017 3:58 pm
I'm sure people will agree that the juxtaposition of some news items is rather unfortunate, no?
Lol.
Lol.
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Re: Headline fails
by JulesV Tue Jan 31, 2017 4:07 pm
These were actual news headlines too 
20-Year Friendship Ends at Altar
Antique Stripper to Display Wares at Store
Blind Woman Gets New Kidney from Dad She Hasn't Seen in Years
Croupiers on Strike -- Management: "No Big Deal"
Fund Set Up for Beating Victim's Children
Henshaw Offers Rare Opportunity to Goose Hunters
Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
Killer Sentenced to Die for Second Time in 10 Years
March Planned for Next August
March Will Take Place In June
Diana Was Still Alive Hours Before She Died
Stripsearch - Crack Found In Man's Buttocks
Students Cook and Serve Grandparents
20-Year Friendship Ends at Altar
Antique Stripper to Display Wares at Store
Blind Woman Gets New Kidney from Dad She Hasn't Seen in Years
Croupiers on Strike -- Management: "No Big Deal"
Fund Set Up for Beating Victim's Children
Henshaw Offers Rare Opportunity to Goose Hunters
Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
Killer Sentenced to Die for Second Time in 10 Years
March Planned for Next August
March Will Take Place In June
Diana Was Still Alive Hours Before She Died
Stripsearch - Crack Found In Man's Buttocks
Students Cook and Serve Grandparents
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Re: Headline fails
by Ben Reilly Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:41 pm
(The printer really should have called them up before running off thousands of copies of that)
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Re: Headline fails
by eddie Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:48 pm
Your pics aren't showing Reilly. They're little empty boxes so I can imagine some funny headlines I suppose.
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Re: Headline fails
by Ben Reilly Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:50 pm
"Homicide victims rarely talk to police"
"Think of a headline
56 pt bold headline"
"Iraq: Children living without limbs lack support"
"Think of a headline
56 pt bold headline"
"Iraq: Children living without limbs lack support"
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Re: Headline fails
by Ben Reilly Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:53 pm
eddie wrote:They're pretty funny.....
Mine were funnier.
Yours sucked, mine are the greatest ever, just beautiful. Everybody talks about how bigly funny they are.
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by eddie Tue Jan 31, 2017 6:01 pm
Ben Reilly wrote:eddie wrote:They're pretty funny.....
Mine were funnier.
Yours sucked, mine are the greatest ever, just beautiful. Everybody talks about how bigly funny they are.
You know, they're really not dude.
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Re: Headline fails
by Original Quill Sat Mar 11, 2017 4:51 pm
Ben Reilly wrote:
(Think that one's my favorite.)
I have to believe that someone contrived this one. They are all Asian women. Are Caucasian men that intimidating to them?
Whose afraid of Kim Jong-un!
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