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Actual Headlines

Organ Festival Ends in Smashing Climax

Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim

Miners Refuse to Work After Death

Blind Woman Gets New Kidney from Dad She Hasn't Seen in Years

Iraqi Head Seeks Arms

Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures
 
Sneak Attack by Soviet Bloc Not Foreseen
 
Blue Skies Unless its Cloudy
 
Food is Basic to Student Diet

Man Struck by Lightning faces Battery Charge
 
New Study of Obesity looks for Larger Test Group
 
Astronaut takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
 
Kids make Nutritious Snacks
 
Chef Throws his Heart into Helping Feed Needy
 
Arson Suspect is Held in Massachusetts Fire
 
British Union finds Dwarfs in Short Supply
 
Ban on Soliciting Dead in Trotwood
 
Lansing Residents can Drop off Trees
 
Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half
 
New Vaccine may Contain Rabies
 
Man Minus Ear Waives Hearing
 
Deaf College Opens Doors to Hearing
 
Air Head Fired
 
Steals Clock, Faces Time
 
Prosecutor Releases Probe into Undersheriff
 
Old School Pillars are Replaced by Alumni
 
Bank Drive-in Window Blocked by Board
 
Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
 
Some Pieces of Rock Hudson Sold at Auction
 
Sex Education Delayed, Teachers Request Training
 
Include your Children when Baking Cookies

Grandmother of Eight Makes Makes Hole in One

Deaf Mute gets New Hearing in Killing

Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers

House Passes Gas Tax onto Senate

Stiff Opposition Expected to Casketless Funeral Plan

Two Convicts Evade Noose, Jury Hung

Wiliam Kelly was Fed Secretary

Milk Drinkers are Turning to Powder

Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should be Belted

Quarter of a Million Chinese Live on Water

Farmer Bill Dies in House

Iraqi Head Seeks Arms



SOME BECOME UNINTENTIONALLY SUGGESTIVE:

Queen Mary Having Bottom Scraped

Is There a Ring of Debris around Uranus?

Prostitutes Appeal to Pope

Panda Mating Fails--Veterinarian Takes Over

NJ Judge to Rule on Nude Beach

Child's Stool Great for Use in Garden

Dr Ruth to Talk About Sex with Newspaper Editors

Soviet Virgin Lands Short of Goal Again



GRAMMAR OFTEN BOTCHES OTHER HEADLINES:

Eye Drops Off Shelf

Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim

Dealers Will Hear Car Talk at Noon

Enraged Cow Injures Farmer with Ax

Lawmen from Mexico Barbecue Guests

Miners Refuse to Work after Death

Two Soviet Ships Collide-One Dies

Two Sisters Reunite after Eighteen Years at Checkout Counter



ONCE IN A WHILE, A BOTCHED HEADLINE TAKES ON A MEANING OPPOSITE FROM THE
ONE INTENDED:

Never Withhold Herpes from Loved One

Nicaragua Sets Goal to Wipe Out Literacy

Drunk Drivers Paid $1000 in 1984

Autos Killing 110 a Day, Let's Resolve to Do Better



SOMETIMES NEWSPAPER EDITORS STATE THE OBVIOUS:

If Strike isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last a While

War Dims Hope for Peace

Smokers are Productive, but Death Cuts Efficiency

Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures

Child's Death Ruins Couples Holiday

Blind Woman Gets New Kidney From Dad She Hasn't Seen in Years

Man is Fatally Slain

Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Experts Say

Death Causes Loneliness, Feeling of Isolation



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