# Funniest Newspaper Headline

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-newspaper-headline/21607>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 6, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-newspaper-headline/21607 "2000-06-06T22:43:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-newspaper-headline/21607/41 "2000-06-27T19:10:32Z")

</div>

Last week, in the Classified section of the Aberdeen(WA) Daily World, there was a Help Wanted ad for a day care center. It mentioned that the hours were mostly days, but “with occasional night shits.” It ran two days in a row like this before they corrected it.

The Editor-in-Chief, in a move you must admire, centered his Sunday editorial on typos, and featured this one. Most papers would have avoided reprinting it, but he put it on the Op-Ed page. He wrote about other errors in the Daily World and other papers but this one is a favorite:

When talking about the way some police manhunt was progressing, they once said the search was hampered by “three inches of snot on the ground.”

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-newspaper-headline/21607.md?page=2)