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jd_1984 | 16:23 Wed 24th Nov 2010 | ChatterBank
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"Queen Mary Having Bottom Scraped"

"March Planned For Next August"

"Lingerie Shipment Hi-Jacked - Theif Gives Police The Slip"

"Defendants Speech Ends In Long Sentence"

"Two Convicts Avoid The Noose - Jury Hung"


etc etc..........
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Not a headline, but ... http://www.penisland.net/
16:24 Wed 24th Nov 2010
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lol naz reminds of an episode of Qi where they were asked about weird looking net names that had nothing to do with the actual product. Laughed so much I well, won't mention that. :D
16:26 Wed 24th Nov 2010
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Headline in the Newcastle Evening Chronicle some 20 years ago:

"Jobs blow for Tyne shipyard workers."

I bet the typesetter was expecially careful with that one.
16:28 Wed 24th Nov 2010
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HA-ha Mike I bet he was pleased he got that the right way round eh?
16:29 Wed 24th Nov 2010
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Do you think the shipyard workers would have been especially early for work if they HAD got the headline wrong??
16:31 Wed 24th Nov 2010
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Sitting in front of a customer, I got the word stopcock the wrong way round. I felt a bit silly once I realised what I had said
16:31 Wed 24th Nov 2010
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when working in the Metro Centre mazie, I was asked where the HIV shop was situated ;0)
16:33 Wed 24th Nov 2010
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LOL and did you tell em Dave? I passed the Metro centre this week-end. I did wave to you on the way through Newcastle on the A1
16:36 Wed 24th Nov 2010
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well i just asked someone if i could pull his horn
16:37 Wed 24th Nov 2010
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and did he let you fluff?
16:37 Wed 24th Nov 2010
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he laughed and said anytime :-)
16:42 Wed 24th Nov 2010
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the one I always remember from the original book of Colemanballs was

"Stirling Moss fartsdemon"

(it was German)
16:47 Wed 24th Nov 2010
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"Mosquito bite man flies home"
17:11 Wed 24th Nov 2010
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My favourites.
A Second World War headline after a rapid advance had encircled a lot of the enemy
.....'British push bottles up Germans'
Australian Flying Doctor Service plagued with mechanical problems
.....'Hoodoo dogs flying doctor planes'
18:12 Wed 24th Nov 2010
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A few more here:
http://funnies.paco.to/Headlines.html
18:14 Wed 24th Nov 2010
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The Scotsman many year ago - a house of ill-repute, near the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, was raided on the basis of too many rooms the space and hence safety.

"Council go in to look for unauthorised erections."
18:18 Wed 24th Nov 2010
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in 1998 when Dick Advocaat went to manage the huns, the back page of the (i think Daily Record) paper had "Dick-heads for Rangers" that made me lol lol lol
20:23 Wed 24th Nov 2010

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