# Most famous newspaper headlines **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 21, 2007, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991 "2007-05-21T21:58:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991/41 "2007-05-22T14:18:37Z")
**Your Ad Here** beat me to the one I had in mind. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991/42 "2007-05-22T14:30:59Z")
> [@](#): > > What’s the story on this one? erm, isn’t it because Harvard _beat_ Yale by getting the same score? How does that work? I don’t follow sport at all, so I might be missing something obvious here. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991/43 "2007-05-22T14:50:30Z")
Though a satirical newspaper and coming out more than two weeks after 9/11, I always thought that The Onion had the best headline about it. Most of the newspapers here in the US, after all, went with something reminiscent of the headlines after Pearl Harbor. After looking at the archives, I guess it wasn’t a headline but their “Attack on America” icon that I was thinking of, the one that said “Holy fucking shit.” That right there could have been the perfect headline by itself. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991/44 "2007-05-22T15:16:35Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] erm, isn’t it because Harvard _beat_ Yale by getting the same score? How does that work? I don’t follow sport at all, so I might be missing something obvious here. [/QUOTE] [Here](http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/1100141.html) is an article from the Harvard alumni magazine in which the author attempts to find the person who wrote the headline, which appeared in the Harvard Crimson. The article notes that “somebody at the Crimson, with only one little word, had brilliantly captured the essence of the Harvard football team’s legendary comeback (16 points in the final 42 seconds) to tie Yale in November 1968.” ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991/45 "2007-05-22T15:45:18Z")
[QUOTE=Malodorous] Variety Headline: Stix Nix Hix Pix About rural moviegoers disliking movies about farming. [/QUOTE] One of the most misquoted lines ever. It’s really [Sticks Nix Hick Pix](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticks_nix_hick_pix). Everybody wants to make each word end in an “x” but it wasn’t written that way. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991/46 "2007-05-22T16:40:46Z")
[QUOTE=Dewey Finn] [Here](http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/1100141.html) is an article from the Harvard alumni magazine [/QUOTE] Excellent. Thanks. Great story. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991/47 "2007-05-22T16:51:36Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] **“British push bottles up Germans’ rear”** possibly apocryphal, I’ve been unable to trace the origin. [/QUOTE] Which reminds me of a gag headline from the Bob Clampett cartoon _Draftee Daffy_: SURPRISE FRONTAL ASSAULT ON ENEMY REAR ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991/48 "2007-05-22T16:58:50Z")
[This](http://www.cnn.com/US/9511/debt_limit/11-16/gingrich_pm/newt_baby.jpg) is one of my favorites: from the NY Daily News when Newt Gingrich threw a fit based on where he was permitted to sit in Air Force One. [Here’s](http://www.cnn.com/US/9511/debt_limit/11-16/gingrich_pm/index.html) the CNN story. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991/49 "2007-05-22T17:03:13Z")
That “Cry Baby” cover reminds me of another famous _News_ cover cartoon when the Dodgers finally won a World Series: a drawing of a rather pathetic-looking fellow with the caption “WHO’S A BUM!” ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991/50 "2007-05-22T17:24:29Z")
Parents Watch In Horror As 18 Month Old Child Pulls 300 Yards Of Multi-colored String From Eye. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991/51 "2007-05-22T18:33:07Z")
[QUOTE=asterion] Though a satirical newspaper and coming out more than two weeks after 9/11, I always thought that The Onion had the best headline about it. Most of the newspapers here in the US, after all, went with something reminiscent of the headlines after Pearl Harbor. After looking at the archives, I guess it wasn’t a headline but their “Attack on America” icon that I was thinking of, the one that said “Holy fucking shit.” That right there could have been the perfect headline by itself. [/QUOTE] I like the sidebar on that issue: “Massive Attack on Pentagon. Page 14” ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991/52 "2007-05-22T19:07:23Z")
**Fargin’ War!** ya bastidges… ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991/53 "2007-05-23T01:52:24Z")
Who printed that headline, and when? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991/54 "2007-05-23T19:50:05Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] Who printed that headline, and when? [/QUOTE] It’s a newspaper headline from the movie [Johnny Dangerously](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087507/quotes). It’s how one of the characters used incorrect swear words. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991/55 "2007-05-23T20:01:43Z")
[QUOTE=Morbo] It’s a newspaper headline from the movie [Johnny Dangerously](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087507/quotes). It’s how one of the characters used incorrect swear words. [/QUOTE] Fargin’ iceholes! ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991/56 "2007-05-26T09:32:27Z")
[Peace For Our Time](http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/frontpage/peace.html) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991/57 "2007-05-26T18:07:01Z")
Crisis - what crisis? (Have non-Brits heard of this one?) [link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_discontent#.27Crisis.3F_What_crisis.3F.27) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2007, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991/58 "2007-06-03T04:11:13Z")
[QUOTE=Cicero] “He’s out” Cricket fans will know that from The Star in 1930. [Here.](http://slsa.sa.gov.au/bradman/collection/PRG682_13/PRG682_13_75.htm) [/QUOTE] I gotta know the backstory on that one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-newspaper-headlines/404991.md?page=2)