# Unintentionally amusing headlines **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 3, 2020, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630 "2020-11-03T09:13:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dahu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahu/32/3416_2.png) [@Dahu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahu)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/21 "2021-09-25T20:39:27Z")
They probably knew what they were doing but: > **[Body of man discovered at Warrington Cemetery](https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/16133744.body-man-discovered-warrington-cemetery/)** > > THE body of a man was discovered at Warrington Cemetery on Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2021, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/22 "2021-09-25T22:50:44Z")
From the Birmingham Post MYSTERIOUS HOLE APPEARS IN CITY STREET Police are looking into it. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/23 "2021-09-26T11:25:13Z")
From the Daily Mail Online (Nurse! The mouthwash!); “Biden wanted his first call to a foreign leader to be to Angela Merkel but she blew him off and he phoned Boris Johnson instead” ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/24 "2021-09-26T12:25:07Z")
Doesn’t require you to click through slide show (just scroll) > **[40 Of The Worst Newspaper Headlines To Make You Facepalm At The Stupidity](https://www.boredpanda.com/stupid-funny-newspaper-headlines/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic)** > > What better way to enjoy your breakfast than by eating it whilst you read the morning newspapers? Unfortunately, some headlines can make us do a spit-take and drench the entire page in delicious tea. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/25 "2021-09-26T13:06:23Z")
Loved it! I noticed one in the New York Times (online version, at least), a few weeks ago. Who knew that Roger Federer was a brave photojournalist in the Middle East? (And don’t give me none of that “Oxford comma or not?” jive. This is a straight-up mistake). ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/26 "2021-09-26T13:26:14Z")
Sorry… here you go. (Thanks to “PostImage.” I know y’all love Imgur, but the sign-up wasn’t working for me — and I don’t WANT to make funny gifs). [![](https://i.postimg.cc/65tnf9wT/3145-E2-F9-3444-4920-AF9-A-FB1-E913-D9468.png) ](https://i.postimg.cc/65tnf9wT/3145-E2-F9-3444-4920-AF9-A-FB1-E913-D9468.png) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/27 "2021-12-27T16:53:10Z")
Man Who Tried to Kill the Queen With a Crossbow Made Darth Vader Terror Video Before Breaking into Palace > **[Man Who Tried to Kill the Queen With a Crossbow Made Darth Vader Terror Video...](https://www.thedailybeast.com/jaswant-singh-chail-would-be-crossbow-killer-made-darth-vader-terror-video-threatening-the-queen)** > > In a clip sent on Snapchat, the 19-year-old who was arrested with a crossbow in palace grounds calls himself a “Sith,” and says he will try to kill the queen. ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/28 "2023-01-24T20:41:37Z")
Although it’s been a while, I couldn’t resist drawing attention to this one, in an email today from the _Spectator_ magazine: GOVERNMENT BORROWING BALLOONS Let’s hope the government gives them back when they have finished with them. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/29 "2023-01-25T00:08:11Z")
Meanwhile, in Briton; when Michael Foot was put in charge of a nuclear disarmament committee, The Times headline read, “Foot Heads Arms Body”. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/30 "2023-01-25T00:23:04Z")
OK, that one HAD to have been deliberate. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/31 "2023-01-25T01:58:32Z")
Probably better than “Foot arms body’s head.” ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/32 "2023-01-25T07:01:15Z")
The business pages occasionally offer puzzles if you’re not familiar with that world. A recent one over here was OCTOPUS BUYS BULB (Octopus is an energy company, as was Bulb). And then there was a football match at the Crystal Palace ground, where a player called Queen was in an argument that got out of hand. Who could resist QUEEN IN BRAWL AT PALACE ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/33 "2023-01-25T09:33:10Z")
This is going to be dark but several years ago when there was that terrorist attack in Nice, France and so many headlines of “Nice Terrorist Attack!” ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/34 "2023-01-26T06:55:45Z")
This is one I like. BRITISH LEFT WAFFLES ON FALKLANDS. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/35 "2023-01-27T17:58:22Z")
[Man crushed by telescopic urinal in central London dies](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64430454?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA) I found it amusing. (Up to the last word.) ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/36 "2023-01-27T18:02:15Z")
Am I missing why that headline is _unintentionally_ amusing? ---
**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:** [January 27, 2023, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/37 "2023-01-27T18:06:13Z")
Possibly. I doubt it was intended to be amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/38 "2024-02-14T21:36:45Z")
Not so much funny as clumsily written: [![](https://i.postimg.cc/5yzvcJ2B/Screenshot-20240214-162935.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/5yzvcJ2B/Screenshot-20240214-162935.jpg) I would have went with “10 people shot at shooting at Super Bowl parade shooting in Kansas City, 1 dead from being shot.” ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/39 "2024-02-15T08:04:18Z")
The Brighton and Hove Argus has a reputation for these: > **[Argus headlines (Brighton & Hove)](https://www.flickr.com/groups/argusheadlines/?rb=1)** > > This is for all those little red swing signs outside newsagents in Brighton, featuring some of the most weird, wonderful, tragic and highly amusing headlines. From the city newspaper - the Argus. Close on their heels is the Dundee Courier: > **[Angus man who tried to fly drone into Perth Prison claimed Romanian circus...](https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/courts/1007095/angus-man-who-tried-to-fly-drone-into-perth-prison-claimed-romanian-circus-stole-his-chihuahua/)** > > A drone pilot caught trying to fly a mobile phone into a maximum security prison has been jailed for nine months. Philip Moreton was found hiding in a ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630/40 "2024-05-30T08:45:29Z")
[This one](https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/05/29/strawberry-truck-overturns-on-san-jose-freeway/) was totally intentional. Journalists must live for these opportunities. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/ejqEjhV.png "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/ejqEjhV) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-headlines/924630.md?page=3)