Headlines:
When a newspaper goes out wearing the wrong banners, its messages can
become unwittingly suggestive...
- Queen Mary Having Bottom Scraped
- Split Rears in Farmers Movement
- Child's Stool Great for Use in Garden
- Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over
- Stud Tires Out
- Columnist Gets Urologist in Trouble With His Peers
- Soviet Virgin Lands Short of Goal Again
- Is There a Ring of Debris around Uranus?
- Prosecutor Releases Probe into Undersheriff
Sometimes the gaffe issues from a confusion in grammar...
- Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge
- Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge
- Eye Drops off Shelf
- Shot Off Woman's Leg Helps Nicklaus to 66
- Teacher Strikes Idle Kids
- Lawyers Give Poor Free Legal Advice
- Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
- Fund Set Up for Beating Victim's Kin
- Killer Sentenced to Die for Second Time in 10 Years
- Two Soviet Ships Collide, One Dies
- Enraged Cow Injures Farmer with Ax
- Miners Refuse to Work after Death
- Include your Children when Baking Cookies
- Lung Cancer in Women Mushrooms
- Deer Kill 17,000
- Chef Throws His Heart into Helping Feed Needy
A deformed headline takes on meaning that is exactly opposite of the
one intended...
- Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim
- New Vaccine May Contain Rabies
- Never Withhold Herpes Infection From Loved One
- Cancer Society Honors Marlboro Man
- Nicaragua Sets Goal to Wipe Out Literacy
- Autos Killing 110 a Day - Let's Resolve to Do Better
- 20-Year Friendship Ends at Alter
Headlines that illuminate the painfully obvious...
- Plane Too Close to Ground, Crash Probe Told
- Enfields Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
- War Dims Hope For Peace
- If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile
- Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures
- Half of U.S. High Schools Require Some Study for Graduation
- Blind Woman Gets New Kidney from Dad She Hasn't Seen in Years
- Man is Fatally Slain
- Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Experts Say
- Death Causes Loneliness, Feelings of Isolation
- Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
And still more Laugh-Out-Loud headlines...
- Defendants Speech Ends in Long Sentence
- Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
- House Passes Gas Tax Onto Senate
- Police Discover Crack in Australia
- British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands
- Stiff Opposition Expected to Casketless Funeral Plan
- Many Antiques Seen at D.A.R. Meeting
- William Kelly, 87, was Fed Secretary
- Scientists to Have Ford's Ear
- Quarter of a Million Chinese Live on Water
- Hershey Bars Protest
- County Officials to Talk Rubbish
- Carter Plans Swell Deficit
- Caribbean Islands Drift to Left
- Farmer Bill Dies in House
- Iraqi Head Seeks Arms
- Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted
- Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case
- Survivor of Siamese Twins Joins Parents
- Reagan Wins on Budget, But More Lies Ahead
- Stolen Painting Found by Tree
- Drunken Drivers Paid $1000 in `84
- Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead
- New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group
- Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
- Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
- Arson Suspect is Held in Massachusetts Fire
- British Union Finds Dwarfs in Short Supply
- Ban On Soliciting Dead in Trotwood
- Lansing Residents Can Drop Off Trees
- Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half
- Man Minus Ear Waives Hearing
- Deaf College Opens Doors to Hearing
- Air Head Fired
- Steals Clock, Faces Time
- Old School Pillars are Replaced by Alumni
- Bank Drive-in Window Blocked by Board
- Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
- Some Pieces of Rock Hudson Sold at Auction
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