October 08, 2003

Great Headlines of Modern Times

Posted by Brian

From the front page of yesterday’s Boston Metro:

Rice to get bigger hand in Iraq

Some of the jokes here are too much fun to refuse.

Kerry to get bigger hair in Paris
Bush to get bigger nose in New York
Blogger to get bigger foot in mouth

And there’s plenty more of these in my mailbox, but I’ll refrain from them for fear of triggering New Zealand aiport filters.

The sports page of the Metro also had a nice Dewey beats Truman moment too. In the Hot/Not column of the sports pages, Colts coach Tony Dungy was listed as being Not after his old team, the Bucs, whipped his Colts. What was surprising about this was that they had the box score of the Red Sox game that only ended about half an hour before the Colts staged the most dramatic late-game comeback in Monday Night Football history.

Posted on October 8, 2003 05:25 PM UTC
Comments

From the 1980’s: one of the London papers had this headline:

British left waffles on Falklands

Wonderful. Classic.

Posted by MIchael C · October 8, 2003 07:05 PM

And a classic from the NYT back in the Khrushchev days of extending agriculture into Siberia—

Soviet Virgin Lands Short of Goal.

Posted by Matt · October 8, 2003 08:23 PM

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

Posted by Matt Weiner · October 9, 2003 12:10 AM

Just this week we had:

Arafat Swears in New Palestinian Cabinet

I think some would say that was the plan all along….

Posted by Michael · October 9, 2003 07:50 AM

My local newspaper had as front page headline

“Mouse seen in foodstore”

Posted by Ian · October 9, 2003 12:42 PM

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

Posted by Joshua W. Burton · October 9, 2003 02:39 PM

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

“Husky women subdue Ducks”

Posted by jackson · October 9, 2003 10:46 PM

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.

Posted by neil · October 12, 2003 08:56 AM
Followups

→ Great Headlines of Modern Times.
Excerpt: Skimming thorugh the stats I noticed a visit via this post on Crooked Timber. It triggered a memory of another headline allegedly from the Guardian:- "Queen in brawl at Palace" Before anyone thinks I'm trying to create another Royal Rumour,Read more at Panchromatica

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