Daftest headline I've seen in a long time.

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Andy in Sig

Vice President in Exile
You may have heard about the peculiarly unpleasant and nasty form of food poisoning which is on the rampage in Germany at the moment. It has now generated one of the best headlines I've ever seen (reported 5 mins ago on a German website):

The nineteenth dead person has also not survived.

(Auch der neunzehnte Tote hat nicht überlebt.)
 

Angelfishsolo

A Velocipedian
Sad but also very funny.
 

Arch

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
Came across a little story in the York Press from last week. The headline was something like "Woman hit in face by fruit thrown from car". The story below fleshed this out with the details that the car was a silver Corsa, and the passenger threw a piece of soft fruit at her, causing reddening of the side of her face.

Just another bit of yobbishness, but the detail, and desparation to make something big out of it was amusing. I assume the reddening of the face was due to impact, and not the juice of the soft fruit in question. Or embarrassment at being the victim of such a fruitarian crime.

A couple of weeks back, there was a story about a tea towel catching fire after being left on a hob. The householder extinguished it before the firebrigade arrived, but it was reported that the tea towel was damaged....
 

PaulB

Legendary Member
Location
Colne
You'd go a long way to find a funnier one than this.

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Andy in Sig

Andy in Sig

Vice President in Exile
I remember from about 1979 the following gem:

Gay Sex Splits Bishops
 

Rebel Ian

Well-Known Member
Location
Berkshire
When Sven was at Man City and decided to make Paul Dickov available for transfer it gave rise to this one....."Eriksson to cut Dickov"

One of my faves which was clever rather than funny was when the Benetton F1 car went up in flames in the pit lane a few years ago and the Sun went with "Ignited Colours of Benetton"
 

Brains

Legendary Member
Location
Greenwich
<LI>When Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. remarkably beat Celtic F.C. in the Scottish Cup 3–1 in February 2000, The Sun reported the story with the headline

"Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious".
 
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