Funny Headlines

[graemer]

Inspired by Clare A's post I was trying to remember unintentional funny headlines. One I remember is "British left waffles on Falklands" and another "Include your children when baking cookies". I also believe there was "Iraqi head searches for arms". Any favourites you remember?

[Octavius]

There is a website dedicated to them, the one that caught me was "Tiger Woods plays with own balls, Nike says"

There was a picture of Michael Howard in the Metro this morning which had a banner underneath saying "Are you thinking what we're thinking?"  That made me giggle.

http://headlinehumor.com/headlines1.htm

[jno]

couple of famous wartime ones:

McArthur

flies back

to front

...and...

8th Army

push

bottles up

Germans

[Marsh]

At the time of the Suez crisis:-

British Troops Sent To Oil Wells

Perhaps they were squeaking....

[kaktus]

here is one

Bush: Worlds biggest catastrophe

[gastwo]

Kaktus, thats not a funny one, that could be a real one!

[kaktus]

I know!!! :-)

I wanted to put in a frame, because I thought they finally got the point, but sadly my boyfriend threw it out... 

[Sequin]

There was a famous one in the 50's:

"Vivian Fuchs off to the Antarctic"

[Didwot]

An old one that never made it written by AT for the sports pages of the Sun to headline a 1970s tennis story

Connors Licks Cox

Amazing to think that someone at the Sun blue pencilled that!

[luckystrike]

The day after the attempted diamond heist at the Millennium Dome, I think it was The Sun who had the headline, We're only here for De Beers!

[Grunty]

Sir Vivian Fuchs off to the Antarctic again.  (British explorer)

[Grunty]

When Inverness Caledonian were beaten by Glasgow Celtic, The Sun used the headline -

Super Cally go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious.

[Grunty]

Sorry - the other way round.  Cally beat Celtic

[hartley]

Not a headline but during an interview with the handler of a Crufts finalist a couple of weeks ago the woman said "My husband won Crufts in 1978...". Made me smile!

[Clare A]

1950s advert, for a vacuum cleaner, or some such:

'Don't kill your wife with work - let electricity do it!'.

[Clare A]

The other ones which amuse me are those in print where a typo has caused the sense to be changed entirely.

'But life would be different now that Joe was in goal' [gaol]

'After a hard tackle, Smith lay writing in the middle of the field' (To his Mum?).

'He lifted her beautiful tea-stained face toward his'.

' "There is one thing Harry will never forget", she said, "And that is that I love ham" '.

Then of course there are the Spoonerisms by radio announcers:

'A cross-flannel cherry was unable to dock today...'.

'An enquiry found that safety rules had been fragrantly bleached'.

[graemer]

Thanks all. very funny. Think I'll give the chocolate cakes to the bottles up Germans, and I love  Vivian Fuchs off to the Antactic again.

Finally I was amused to read that when the Pope's predecessor died after just a few weeks in the job a headline read "Pope Dies for the Second time in 26 days"