# Interesting, Odd, Or Funny News Headline of the Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 12, 2019, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-odd-or-funny-news-headline-of-the-day/841671 "2019-10-12T04:50:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-odd-or-funny-news-headline-of-the-day/841671/1 "2019-10-12T04:50:53Z")
Sometimes I just want to share a funny, odd, or otherwise interesting news headline that I’ve run across while reading the news. Today a saw this one: “The Latest Hero Exposing Trump’s Corruption Has a Name, and She Is Not F\*cking Around” > **[The Latest Hero Exposing Trump's Corruption Has a Name, and She Is Not...](https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a29445236/marie-yovanovitch-ukraine-ambassador-testify-congress-trump/?fbclid=IwAR1wrFE-ItmbUaykg38BI6SAx7oZEj3FiiNdDQ8qomnPNh1lxfqq09Ae67k)** > > Marie Yovanovitch was the ambassador to Ukraine, and now she's a problem for the president\*. It’s not all that often you see “the F-word” in a headline! Note: this thread isn’t about politics or the news content following the headline; it’s just a funny, odd, or otherwise interesting headline. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-odd-or-funny-news-headline-of-the-day/841671/2 "2019-10-12T04:55:06Z")
This one just seemed odd, and lengthy to me: “Devin Nunes Sues Again; He REALLY Doesn’t Want You To Read This Article About His Family’s Cow Farm In Iowa” > **[Devin Nunes Sues Again; He REALLY Doesn't Want You To Read This Article About...](https://www.techdirt.com/2019/10/02/devin-nunes-sues-again-he-really-doesnt-want-you-to-read-this-article-about-his-familys-cow-farm-iowa/)** > > NunesSuit (PDF) NunesSuit (Text) ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-odd-or-funny-news-headline-of-the-day/841671/3 "2020-10-05T22:59:08Z")
[Reports Say Contagious President Is Trying to Escape His Captors Like a Zoo Animal](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/trump-covid-19-trying-discharge-self-from-hospital.html) from Slate dot com. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-odd-or-funny-news-headline-of-the-day/841671/4 "2020-10-06T07:19:28Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > [Reports Say Contagious President Is Trying to Escape His Captors Like a Zoo Animal](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/trump-covid-19-trying-discharge-self-from-hospital.html) > from Slate dot com They’re right on top of things. The headline at that link now reads: Update: Contagious President Has Succeeded at Escaping His Captors Like a Zoo Animal ---
**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-odd-or-funny-news-headline-of-the-day/841671/5 "2020-10-06T12:14:07Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > This one just seemed odd, and lengthy to me: > > “Devin Nunes Sues Again; He REALLY Doesn’t Want You To Read This Article About His Family’s Cow Farm In Iowa” Didn’t realize this was an old thread (the “Oct 12” date was from last year not this year (I do know we are in October) – or is that “October 2012”?), but anyway… This was a nice quote from the article: > _The soil of the Central Valley is depicted as almost sacred in these articles. National Review quotes a 1912 Portuguese immigrant farmer who wrote that when he grabs a clump of dirt, “I feel as if I had just shaken hands with all my ancestors.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-odd-or-funny-news-headline-of-the-day/841671/6 "2020-10-06T18:31:44Z")
From the Daily Beast: [Should We Replace the Trump Administration With Chimpanzees?](https://www.thedailybeast.com/should-we-replace-the-trump-administration-with-chimpanzees) I wish these weren’t all political but it’s so close to the election I suppose it will stay this way a bit longer. I did not intend for these headlines to be political or focus on any particular candidate. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-odd-or-funny-news-headline-of-the-day/841671/7 "2020-10-06T18:52:37Z")
[A lonely otter at a sanctuary finds love online at a dating site built just for him](https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/04/us/lonely-otter-finds-love-trnd/index.html) from CNN. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-odd-or-funny-news-headline-of-the-day/841671/8 "2020-10-06T18:53:47Z")
This headline is a little old now, but I did not know about this thread at the time. Back in April or so when the pandemic and related stay at home orders were just starting, a story from NPR appeared in my Facebook news feed “Stephen King is Sorry You Feel Like You’re Stuck in a Stephen King Novel”. > **[Stephen King Is Sorry You Feel Like You're Stuck In A Stephen King Novel](https://www.npr.org/2020/04/08/829298135/stephen-king-is-sorry-you-feel-like-youre-stuck-in-a-stephen-king-novel)** > > The horror writer says he understands why fans have said the COVID-19 pandemic feels like living inside one of his novels. King says he doesn't feel panic or terror, but rather, a "gnawing anxiety." ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-odd-or-funny-news-headline-of-the-day/841671/9 "2020-10-06T18:56:55Z")
I’m so confused: [Starting gun fired on global hunt for hundreds of billions to fund nature protection](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-nature-finance-idUSKBN26J3A7?emci=46f0c54e-6cff-ea11-96f5-00155d03affc&emdi=227a6b58-de03-eb11-96f5-00155d03affc&ceid=2039365) ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-odd-or-funny-news-headline-of-the-day/841671/10 "2020-10-29T20:05:54Z")
Jerry Falwell Jr. Sues Liberty University For Allegedly Damaging His Reputation > **[Jerry Falwell Jr. Sues Liberty University For Allegedly Damaging His Reputation](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jerry-falwell-sues-liberty-university_n_5f9ada26c5b6c265d8f12f1a)** > > Falwell, who was toppled by scandals this summer, has filed a lawsuit against the evangelical university claiming defamation and breach of contract. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-odd-or-funny-news-headline-of-the-day/841671/11 "2020-10-30T05:47:16Z")
More Monkey Business: [https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/costco-is-dropping-popular-coconut-milk-after-allegations-of-monkey-labor-peta-says/ar-BB1awEkT?ocid=spartanntp](https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/costco-is-dropping-popular-coconut-milk-after-allegations-of-monkey-labor-peta-says/ar-BB1awEkT?ocid=spartanntp) ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-odd-or-funny-news-headline-of-the-day/841671/12 "2020-11-07T01:47:09Z")
“Blind bisexual goose stuck in love triangle with two swans dies aged 40” Read more: [Blind bisexual goose stuck in love triangle with two swans dies aged 40 | Metro News](https://metro.co.uk/2018/02/08/blind-bisexual-goose-stuck-love-triangle-two-swans-dies-aged-40-7296814/?ito=cbshare) It’s probably BS but it’s a nice diversion from “Who will be the next US President?”. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-odd-or-funny-news-headline-of-the-day/841671/13 "2021-02-19T00:12:04Z")
[SNAKE ON A PLANE: TED IN FIRESTORM OVER CANCUN CAPER — _BLAMES HIS KIDS!_] [Ted Cruz Slammed After Photos Show Him Flying To Cancun As Texans Freeze | HuffPost Latest News](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-cancun-texas_n_602e7d8bc5b66dfc101ccef3) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-odd-or-funny-news-headline-of-the-day/841671/14 "2021-02-19T06:05:59Z")
This was a long, long time ago, but I opened a newspaper (Yes, that long ago) and read something like this: _Ice Cream Truck Driver Shot in Turf War_ Story went on to detail a shooting over what neighborhood’s were who’s. It gave the two guys names, and both of them were about 19 letters long with maybe 3 vowels between the two. I thought is was some kind of gag. I had to look at the date to make sure it wasn’t April 1st. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-odd-or-funny-news-headline-of-the-day/841671/15 "2021-02-27T21:48:25Z")
Yikes! So these folks tie a knife blade to the foot of their roosters to give the birds an added advantage when cockfighting, but this owner got stabbed in the groin by his rooster’s blade while handling the bird and died of blood loss before arriving at the hospital. I guess I’m a jerk but I don’t feel all that bad about that. The article goes on to say “The rooster was briefly held at the local police station before it was sent to a poultry farm.” Is that like a penal farm? Is this rooster “doing time for his crime”? Or is it more like an animal rescue? Or maybe “the rooster went to live on a farm” is a story similar to the kind told to children about their suddenly missing childhood dogs? > **[Rooster fitted with blade for cockfight kills its owner in India](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/27/rooster-fitted-with-blade-for-cockfight-kills-its-owner-in-india)** > > Bird with knife attached to leg ready to take on opponent inflicts fatal injuries to man’s groin ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-odd-or-funny-news-headline-of-the-day/841671/16 "2021-02-27T21:53:02Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Ice Cream Truck Driver Shot in Turf War Wow- a quick Google search shows that this is a tiny bit more common than one would think! The Glasgow Ice Cream Wars: > **[Glasgow ice cream wars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Ice_Cream_Wars)** > > The ice cream wars were turf wars in the East End of Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1980s between rival criminal organisations selling drugs and stolen goods from ice cream vans. Van operators were involved in frequent violence and intimidation tactics, the most notable example of which involved a driver and his family who were killed in an arson attack that resulted in a twenty-year court battle. The conflicts generated widespread public outrage, and earned the Strathclyde Police the nicknam In 19... Mister Softee turf wars in NY: > **[Ice cream truck driver gives us the inside scoop on New York turf wars | CBC...](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.3610810/ice-cream-truck-driver-gives-us-the-inside-scoop-on-new-york-turf-wars-1.3612850)** > > A Mister Softee ice cream truck driver takes a breather from dishing out the good stuff to dish on the ruthless ice cream turf wars unfolding in New York City. Also in NY, “The chilly relationship between rival upstate New York ice cream truck operators got out of hand this season, with Sno Cone Joe trying to chase Mr. Ding-A-Ling out of the market, authorities said Wednesday.” [Ice Cream Truck Turf War: Sno Cone Joe stalked Mr. Ding-A-Ling, N.Y. police say - CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-cream-truck-turf-war-sno-cone-joe-stalked-mr-ding-a-ling-ny-police-say/) ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-odd-or-funny-news-headline-of-the-day/841671/17 "2021-03-31T20:28:30Z")
[Giant chocolate helicopter ‘a big challenge’](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-56589889)