Allegedly, a newspaper during WWII carried the headline “Brittish push bottles up Germans’ rear” or something similar. I’ve heard about a dozen varients.
Real headline or Urban legend?
Google your phrase without the quotes and see what you get back. There are lots of links.
Yes indeed there are lots of links. The story is told over and over. But is it actually true?
Which newspaper? What date?
According to this the headline actually was “Eighth Army Push Bottles Up German Rear”, and is mentioned in a book from 1965, *What the Papers Didn’t Mean to Say * by Fritz Spiegl. Has anyone got a copy of this, to see if he said where the headline came from? If it’s true?