Best Headline Ever?
Writing about web page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7026851.stm
I thought no headline could ever beat “Man sets fire to flat in bid to smoke out ninjas” or “Who do you think you are kidding mister Ahmadinejad?” but the BBC might have topped it today with:
Leapfrogging Mayor Injures Woman Dressed As Tomato
The story itself isn’t quite as funny (someone really got hurt) but as headlines go… wow.
Holly Cruise
03 Oct 2007 23:43
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[Skip to the latest comment]Luke Parks
It is an image to conjour with isn’t it?
04 Oct 2007, 00:29
Mathew Mannion
“Stoner wins MotoGP title” was my favourite from recently…
04 Oct 2007, 09:12
Richard Stevenson
My favourite punning headline comes from the 2004 (I think) England cricket series against the West Indies where, on the first day of the Lords test, both Andrew Strauss and Robert Key cashed in with big scores each…
The next day, the Times went for:
“Strauss finds correct Key for perfect performance”
04 Oct 2007, 10:26
Tom Abbott
not as good as either
Super Cally Go Ballistic Celtic are Atrocious
or
Newcastle Face Butt Probe
04 Oct 2007, 18:50
Greg
“Judge aims to have pants suit ironed out next week.” was pretty good (http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/13/trouser.trial/), but not as good as “Skywalkers in Korea cross Han solo” (Was on Yahoo news, but my saved-link no longer works :( )
04 Oct 2007, 21:01
Victoria
Richard’s cricket headline reminded me of one I heard years ago, I think it was the Ashes series in England before the famous 2005 series…
Anyway, England had had a rollickingly good few days and were well set to win, however they still had to face Shane Warne on the last day on a wearing pitch, the headline was…
“It aint over til the fat bloke spins”
AWESOME!!
17 Oct 2007, 16:06
Sarah
Its hard to beat that headline, Shane Warne is awesome even my Mum likes him. I’m not sure about men with highlights though.
30 Oct 2007, 13:30
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