from Scientific American:
BLOOD TESTS COULD HELP DOCTORS CATCH OVARIAN CANCER EARLY.
Anyone else have examples of unfortunately worded headlines? This one left me chuckling for five minutes.
SEAMEN BELIEVED RESPONSIBLE FOR PREGNANCY
(I belive it was an article about a scandal aboard a navy ship)
Statistics Show That Teen Pregnancy Drops Off Significantly After Age 25
Clinton’s Firmness Got Results
Jane Fonda To Teens: Use Head To Avoid Pregnancy
courtesy of www.headlinehumor.com
Babies Are What The Mother Eats
Kicking Baby Considered To Be Healthy
Woman Off To Jail For Sex With Boys
Only Rain Will Cure Drought
Include Your Children When Baking Cookies
Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
Is There a Ring of Debris Around Uranus?
Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over
*courtesy of http://freespace.virgin.net/mark.fryer/headlines.html *
Sadly it’s not a real headline.
But there was a UK politician called Michael Foot. If he had been asked to take charge of a weapon monitoring commission, then :
FOOT HEADS ARMS BODY!
The teenage sex problem is mounting
do they need stirrups?
My favorite (from a whole book of the best by Columbia Journalism Review, Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim):
British Left Waffles on Falklands
…then there’s the old chestnut about the midget clairvoyant who escaped from jail. The next day, the headlines read SMALL MEDIUM AT LARGE!
Or the headline for the story about the asylum escapee who went on a spree of sexual assaults: Nut Bolts and Screws
Holy cow!
So, if you’re a boy doctor, first you will grow ovaries, and then they will become cancerous?
I don’t know of any “boy doctors” except perhaps Doogie Howser, but he was a fictional character. Or are you referring to pediatricians who only accept male clients?
Not a headline, but the movie listings one day had “A Very Brady Sequel” listed as “A Very Bad Sequel.”
“Babies are what the mother eats”
–The Times-Herald, November 7, 1984
“Never Withold Herpes Infection From Loved One”
–Alburquerque Journal, December 26, 1984
“How to combat that feeling of helplessness with illegal drugs”
–The Royal Gazette, May 9, 1985
I always thought it would be neat if Pol Pot participated in a marijuana survey:
POT POLL POLLS POL POT
From a National Lampoon True Facts column:
Bloody Butt Hurts Ramirez
I’ve shared this before, but a Concordia University student newspaper published an article on how yet another man had been appointed to high office despite admin’s pledge to hire more women:
VICE-RECTOR SERVICES ANOTHER MALE