Showing posts with label headlines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label headlines. Show all posts
13 October 2008
The understated headline of the day....
...comes to us courtesy of the Philadelphia Inquirer: "The Uninsured Die Sooner". Who could have guessed?
16 September 2008
03 September 2008
And I leave you with...
...the misleading headline of the day: "Dutch Dykes in Need of Massive Overhaul" from Radion Netherlands. The story doesn't even discuss lesbians!
26 August 2008
Headline of the day
"MILF linked to Al-Qaeda".
At least I now understand why they're so reluctant to come out of those caves!
At least I now understand why they're so reluctant to come out of those caves!
09 August 2008
06 August 2008
Today in word association
Pot is to kettle as Captain Codpiece is to ????
Our great leader tells China to end detentions and ensure freedoms. Perhaps he has got confused and he thinks that "contraction and conversion" is meant to apply to human rights and not to greenhouse gas emissions!
Our great leader tells China to end detentions and ensure freedoms. Perhaps he has got confused and he thinks that "contraction and conversion" is meant to apply to human rights and not to greenhouse gas emissions!
02 August 2008
Headline of the day (special Saturday edition)
This story comes to us courtesy of our friends in western Sweden: "Motorcycle hit by flying elk. (Are they really sure it wasn't a reindeer?)
Couldn't they just use foot tapping?
Healine of the day: "Craig's Oral Arguments Set for September"!
16 July 2008
In related news....
...the headline most likely to be misinterpreted in Britain: "Fannie Plan a Disaster". If, as an American, you don't understand why this is likely to be misinterpreted I offer you this advice. Should you ever come to Britain on holiday and your four year old girl starts misbehaving in the airport whatever you do don't tell her "if you don't behave I'm going to spank your fanny". If you do you are likely to have a long, and potentially unpleasant, chat with the local constabulary.
12 June 2008
The headline says it all
"Intelligent people 'less likely to believe in God'". And before anyone goes on about the damn liberal press the paper in which we find this story is none other than that right wing rag, once owned by Baron Black of Crossharbour, The Torygraph!
05 June 2008
17 May 2008
Slow news day at the Guardian?
It must be. They usually don't have time to think up tabloid style headlines like this: "Truffle kerfuffle grips Italy as rival takes root"
09 May 2008
Headline of the day!
"Great tits cope well with warming"
What a relief. I should probably go out and warm some great tits immediately!
What a relief. I should probably go out and warm some great tits immediately!
03 May 2008
01 May 2008
15 April 2008
Running the government like a (poorly run) business (incorporating the quote of the day)
As part of its efforts to outsource government functions to a more efficient private sector the Bush administration has been using private debt collectors to chase taxes due. So far it has only cost the US taxpayer at least 37 million USD.
The quote of the day comes from Senatory Byron Dorgan (D - ND):
The quote of the day comes from Senatory Byron Dorgan (D - ND):
"This program is the hood ornament for incompetence."
05 April 2008
Would it have been acceptable if they had bee "real" exorcism?
Today's headline of the day: "Priest 'made £3m from fake exorcisms'"
In the US he would have had a TV network of his own!
In the US he would have had a TV network of his own!
28 March 2008
Headline of the day
"Suspicious pants point police to massive find". The double entendre may or may not have been intended.
02 March 2008
Headline of the day
From Haaretz, a moderately left of centre Israeli paper: "2 Israelis lightly wounded as 21 rockets slam in western Negev". Only later in the article does one found out that "at least 70 Palestinians" have been killed.
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