Headlines

[Elixir]

What's your all-time favorite headline?

Mine was in a Houston newspaper years ago when the Houston Oilers lost a game to the Redskins (iirc). The Houston quarterback Warren Moon was sacked like, four times by linebacker Charles Mann. So the headline read:

MANN WALKS ON MOON!

 

[Mageth]

From a local paper years ago...

POLICE HUNT KIDNAP CLOWN

...followed later by...

CLOWN CALLS POUR IN

 

[Deepak]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/17/AR2005071700411_pf.html

 

[Tigers!]

Might be apocryphal
In 1926 an Austrian newspaper ran a competition for the best imaginable headline.
The winner:
Archduke Franz Ferdinand still alive - World war 1 fought by mistake.

 

[James Brown]

'At Last' singer Etta James dies at 76.

 

[Wiploc]

The Kansas State Collegian once ran an article with a headline something like, "Sex Still Popular, Reasons Unknown."

 

[Keith&Co.]

My dad claims to have read about a tour boat operator who was initially held accountable for lives lost in a nautical accident, but was vindicated in the appeal.

"CAPSIZING CONVICTION OVERTURNED."

 

[C_Mucius_Scaevola]

Reputed to be a true headline in The Times, variously dated from the 1930s or 1950s:

Fog on the Channel: Continent Cut Off

 

[Keith&Co.]

 

[Elixir]

There are definitely some good ones out there...

 

[bilby]

 

[spikepipsqueak]

I can't reference these, heard about them on the radio last night.

"17 remain dead in morgue shooting."

and

"Bishops agree child abuse rules."

 

[Achwienichtig]

It's fictional, but here it goes:

"Draft Bill Fails, Congress Fails to Impress"

 

[Tom Sawyer]

 

[C_Mucius_Scaevola]

Cork Man Drowns On Holiday In Morocco

And no, his name wasn't Bob.

 

[Angry Floof]

Vatican rocked by drug-fueled homosexual party

 

[Thomas II]

 

[SLD]

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[SLD]