Comments on: Great Headlines of Modern Times

By: neil

neil — Sun, 12 Oct 2003 08:56:42 +0000

When I read the headline, I got a mental picture of rice being poured into an outstretched hand, which suddenly, well, got bigger. It would make a good Flash cartoon.

By: jackson

jackson — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 22:46:42 +0000

via Dave Barry, referring to a titanic struggle between two Pacific Northwest college women’s teams (I forget the sport): “Husky women subdue Ducks”

By: Joshua W. Burton

Joshua W. Burton — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 14:39:08 +0000

“Grandmother of Eight Makes Hole In One” “Teen Sex Problem Is Mounting”

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:42:26 +0000

My local newspaper had as front page headline “Mouse seen in foodstore”

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 07:50:37 +0000

Just this week we had: Arafat Swears in New Palestinian Cabinet I think some would say that was the plan all along….

By: Matt Weiner

Matt Weiner — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 00:10:04 +0000

So did British push bottles up Germans or British push bottles up German rear actually appear during WWII, or is it an urban legend?

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 20:23:45 +0000

And a classic from the NYT back in the Khrushchev days of extending agriculture into Siberia— Soviet Virgin Lands Short of Goal.

By: MIchael C

MIchael C — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 19:05:20 +0000

From the 1980’s: one of the London papers had this headline: British left waffles on Falklands Wonderful. Classic.