I didn’t know it was possible to start a thread without a post. Then again, I never tried.
Anyway, here’s my contribution:
Scotland’s Moonwalking Pony in ‘Paternity Battle’
Edit: Here’s the commercial that features the pony doing the moonwalk (it’s linked in the article as well)
In other news, **TSA delays Chewbacca over lightsaber**.
Hasn’t the TSA ever heard: “Let the Wookiee win”?
are the poplar bluffs popular for people in the buff?
Math, science, history, unravelling the mystery.
“How 'bout some more coffee, Johnny?”
At least, since you are a woman, you wouldn’t have to worry about the hillbillies from Deliverance.
Years ago in my local college newspaper was a short article about vandalism to a man’s car, headlined "Man’s nuts loosened."
From a local paper in the east of England:
Man put melon through ex-partner’s cat-flap
A recent one doing the rounds in the UK (possibly a spoof):
Local man arrested for ‘twatting’ a heron
<number> Jobs To Be Lost
Police Arrest Protesters
and in the sports pages
England Outclassed
Damn it…you all are dicking around and all I can do is worry about the Naked 19 year old lost in the woods…we need to organise a search party STAT!
Most headlines are one-offs, really. Something that happens every day stops being newsworthy after tha first couple of times.
A combination you don’t read every day:
CNN: “Hero or Traitor?”
Fox: “Hero or Traitor?”
Well, at least she’ll be easy to spot. She’ll be the one with the fanny pack.
Here’s a headline you do see every day, or at least used to. IIRC, back in the early 1970s, Rolling Stone ran an article on a guy who collected articles from the New York Times. Dozens, maybe hundreds of them. They all had the same headline:
Bus Plunge
Each one was a small article, maybe the size of a classified ad, about injuries or deaths sustained when a bus ran off a road into a ravine or off a bridge in some remote area or Third World country. Apparently this happens all the time.
I remember actually seeing this on the paper on sale at the newsagents.
Back when I took the Dallas Morning News every day in dead tree version, I’d frequently see a headline about a Dallas Cowboy being caught in another crime of some sort. On those days when the Boys were behaving themselves, then a city gummint official was caught with his or her hand in the cookie jar. On THOSE days, my husband and I would frequently look at each other, laugh, and say “I’m SO glad we live in Fort Worth!”
