# Horrible Headlines

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-headlines/402667>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 3, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-headlines/402667 "2007-05-03T21:23:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-headlines/402667/21 "2007-05-05T05:58:55Z")

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Don’t forget the Variety classic on an article describing how rural audiences were not going to see “hillbilly” comedies: **STIX NIX HIX PIX.**

(Okay, honesty forces me to add that the actual headline was “Sticks Nix Hick Pix” the improved version was from the movie _Yankee Doodle Dandy_.)

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**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-headlines/402667/22 "2007-05-05T06:22:07Z")

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[QUOTE=Squink]  
**[Skywalkers in Korea cross Han solo](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070503/ap_on_re_as/skorea_high_wire_4)**  
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Not horrible–brilliant. As a former headline writer, I stand in awe. Or maybe I sit in mediocrity.

This one now holds the record. My previous favorite was “ACLU vows support for bra-less girl.”

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