For all you writers out there

[Cheyenne]

Yes, someone sent these to me in an email. I particularly like #24- they must shop at Walmart.

The Herald Sun's 25 Best Newspaper Headlines of 2000

1. Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Experts Say

2. Include Your Children When Baking Cookies

3. Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers

4. Drunks Get Nine Months in Violin Case

5. Iraqi Head Seeks Arms

6. Is There a Ring of Debris around Uranus?

7. Prostitutes Appeal to Pope

8. Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over

9. British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands

10. Teacher Strike Idles Kids

11. Clinton Wins Budget; More Lies Ahead

12. Plane Too Close to Ground, Crash Probe Told

13. Miners Refuse to Work After Death

14. Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant

15. Stolen Painting Found by Tree

16. Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half

17. War Dims Hope for Peace

18. If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last a While

19. Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide

20. Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery

21. New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group

22. Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Space

23. Kids Make Nutritious Snacks

24. Two Sisters Reunited after 18 Years in Checkout Counter

25. Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead

 

[Basia]

looks like the kind of things I would write!


LoL

 

[batter]

good ones!!

i was in wallyworld recently. the store was jammed for back to school and they only had 2 cashiers open for business. i can understand where #24 could happen. Maybe it was a Magical moment? LOL

#2... they must have gotten from Hansel and Gretel maybe?

that is a funny list. and to think that someone actually graduated from school and gets paid to think these up.

isn't life grand?

 

[shadowsource]

I like number 7, Cheyenne

I'm a sucker for Uranus.

 

[SteamyChik]

#25

made me laugh. Scary!

 

[Cheyenne]

Actually, I can see where these would happen if an editor wasn't paying attention at the local newspaper. I still thought some of these were fairly funny though.

 

[JRob]

Headlines

Those were 25 great headlines. Here's a couple I liked:
Cactus Face Bites the dust (actor with that name died)
Dead man was unconscious
Prostitute "enjoys" job

 

[Mustang Sally]

Oh, those headlines aren't from 2000. My journalism teacher showed us that very same list in 1998.

I can't help but think a few of those may have been made deliberately amusing. A bored copy editor's joke. On the other hand, I did my six-week internship doing copy editing and layout at a large daily, and sometimes it really does get quite hectic. Stories come in at the last minute, and you need to get the page finished NOW! It would be easy to let something dumb slip though.

 

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