Best News Headline

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
1

Burning bush ignites Woodburn church

2

From the old St. Louis Sun, referencing a man’s awkward attempt to seduce a woman in a bar.

He Bit Hers, So She Sued His

3

I think one of the best ever is the SF Examiner’s headline from 9/11 (OK, 9/12):

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4

The Smokin Joe’s boat beat the Budweiser boat in a hydroplane race. Our front page headline the next day…

Joe Smokes Bud

5

Two old favourites from WWII:

**Eighth Army Push Bottles Up Germans

MacArthur Flies Back to Front**

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Headless Body In Topless Bar

7

The Sun is an excellent source. One of its more famous headlines was Gotcha.

8

One of the true marks of brilliance where it comes to headlines is brevity: the ability of the subeditors to sum up the entire story in the minimum number of words.

Which is why I love this one so much - there is really no way to sum up the story other than:

Woman in sumo wrestler suit assaulted her ex-girlfriend in gay pub after she waved at man dressed as a Snickers bar

9

so … it is not a case of live nude girls?

10

Man put melon through ex-partner’s cat-flap

11

Ike Beats Tina To Death

12

The Sun has the best ones:

Super Cally go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious
Freddy Starr ate my hamster
How do you solve a problem like Korea?
Stick it up you Junta
Wham Bam! Sam Cam to be mam (she’ll need a new pram)

13

Crack Found in Man’s Buttocks.