b6bloke Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Well "Dr Jo You Must Go" has to be there and Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted November 2, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted November 2, 2011 "Super Caley Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious" I cant believe there were 3 posts before this....on a football forum too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 2, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted November 2, 2011 In 1981 the Yorkshire Evening Post had two adjacent front page items, headlined: KENNY BURNS SIGNS FOR LEEDS UTD and LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY OPENS NEW BURNS UNIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted November 2, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted November 2, 2011 When Eric Cantona attacked a supporter: “THE S**T HITS THE FAN” On the passing of Ike Turner: ‘Ike Beats tina to death’ A cat called Chutney was attacked and killed by a dog: Mangled Chutney. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted November 2, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted November 2, 2011 When Eric Cantona attacked a supporter: “THE S**T HITS THE FAN” Thought that line was first used about this incident: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted November 2, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted November 2, 2011 When an MP got done on Clapham common one evening for soliciting gay sex. "Bandits at six o'clock" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponky Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 After the infamous backpass into the net through Robinson's fingers in an England qualifier, didn't one of the papers have: "And here's two-nil, misses Robinson" or something like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted November 3, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted November 3, 2011 I take it the New York Post is the American answer to The Sun then? Indeed. wiki"] In 1976 the Post was bought by Rupert Murdoch for US$30 million. Murdoch imported the sensationalist "tabloid journalism" style of many of his Australian and British newspapers, such as The Sun (the highest selling daily newspaper in the UK). This style was typified by Post's famous headlines such as “Headless body in topless bar” (shown on the right). In its 35th-anniversary edition, New York Magazine listed this as one of the greatest headlines ever. It also has five other Post headlines in its "Greatest Tabloid Headlines" list. Because of the institution of federal regulations limiting media cross-ownership after Murdoch's purchase of WNYW-TV to launch the Fox Broadcasting Company, Murdoch was forced to sell the paper for US$37.6 million in 1988 to Peter S. Kalikow, a real-estate magnate with no news experience. When Kalikow declared bankruptcy in 1993, the paper was temporarily managed by Steven Hoffenberg, a financier who later pleaded guilty to securities fraud; and, for two weeks, by Abe Hirschfeld, who made his fortune building parking garages. After a staff revolt against the Hoffenberg-Hirschfeld partnership — which included publication of an issue whose front page featured the iconic masthead photo of Alexander Hamilton with a single tear drop running down his cheek —The Post was repurchased in 1993 by Murdoch's News Corporation. This came about after numerous political officials, including Democratic governor of New York Mario Cuomo, persuaded the Federal Communications Commission to grant Murdoch a permanent waiver from the cross-ownership rules that had forced him to sell the paper five years earlier. Without that FCC ruling, the paper would have shut down. Under Murdoch's renewed direction, the paper continued its conservative editorial viewpoint. The Post has been criticized since the beginning of Murdoch's ownership for sensationalism, blatant advocacy and conservative bias. In 1980, the Columbia Journalism Review opined that "the New York Post is no longer merely a journalistic problem. It is a social problem – a force for evil." Perhaps the most serious allegation against the Post is that it is willing to contort its news coverage to suit Murdoch's business needs, in particular that the paper has avoided reporting anything that is unflattering to the government of the People's Republic of China, where Murdoch has invested heavily in satellite television. Critics say that the Post allows its editorial positions to shape its story selection and news coverage. Post executive editor Steven D. Cuozzo, has responded that the Post "broke the elitist media stranglehold on the national agenda." According to a survey conducted by Pace University in 2004, the Post was rated the least-credible major news outlet in New York, and the only news outlet to receive more responses calling it "not credible" than credible (44% not credible to 39% credible). That said the Post plays an interesting game of high-low, though somewhat less so since Rupert bought the Wall Street Journal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 In an immature moment this headline (and story) made me laugh from our student paper this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 Bunker hill ended with the Colonials retreating from the field of battle and the British taking the ground What is it with America and rewriting history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted November 4, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted November 4, 2011 That said, the argument could be made that as the Siege of Boston then became a stalemate until the cannons from Ticonderoga were brought to Dorchester Heights, after which General Howe* elected to withdraw. In that sense, it's a draw. There also haven't been a great many draws since then, have there? *: Howe of course almost certainly preferred a negotiated peace to a British victory throughout his command... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloBarnesi Posted November 4, 2011 Author Share Posted November 4, 2011 In an immature moment this headline (and story) made me laugh from our student paper this week. The article is obviously written by someone who has a future in the tabloids Police warn the faeces felon may still be at large and ready to drop the bomb at any time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 1, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted November 1, 2012 Hedgehog trapped in crisp packet in Weston-super-Mare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted November 1, 2012 Moderator Share Posted November 1, 2012 I cant believe there were 3 posts before this....on a football forum too! That one was a rip off of a previous headline from when Ian Callaghan of Liverpool starred in an away win at Loftus road "Super Calley goes Ballistic, QPR atrocious" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturdaygig Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 I saw one once on an A-Board outside Grange over sands railway station new stand. It had on it a headline from the Westmorland Gazette: "Grange man refused planning permission for garage" Top that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 1, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted November 1, 2012 I'm kicking myself that I didn't photograph it, but a couple of years ago I saw one for the Bradford Telegraph and Argus that said "Local crime baron banned from keeping rabbits". But from the same source, this week: Bradford woman raised by monkeys to tell story 9:00am Tuesday 23rd October 2012 in Bradford By Chris Tate, T&A Reporter A Bradford woman’s amazing claim that she was raised by a troop of monkeys in the Colombian jungle is to be published as a book and has made headlines around the world. Mum-of-two Marina Chapman, of Allerton, is said to be finishing off the astonishing story of how, aged four, she was kidnapped from her Colombian parents, but then dumped in the rainforest. She escaped big cats, spiders and giant pythons until she says “about 20 capuchin monkeys” welcomed her into their family. Mrs Chapman, a former cook at the city’s National Media Museum, says she lived with the colony for five years, during which time she learned to climb trees and catch wild animals with her bare hands. She tells how hunters found her, then sold her to a brothel in exchange for a parrot, but she escaped before being put to work. She says she then fled to the nearby town of Cucuta, where she led a gang of pickpockets, was a slave to crime lords and lost three fiances to violent deaths. In her book, The Girl With No Name – The Incredible True Story of the Girl Raised By Monkeys, Mrs Chapman will reveal how she was then taken on as a maid by a family who brought her to Bradford on a business trip and where she met her future husband. She spoke virtually no English and he spoke no Spanish, but they married in 1977 and had two daughters. Mrs Chapman, now in her 50s and married to former church organist John Chapman, is said to be finishing the book with the help of her musician and composer daughter, Vanessa James. “I got bedtime stories about the jungle, as did my sister. It was just Mum telling her life, so in a way it was nothing special having a mother like that,” said Vanessa, 28. Mrs Chapman was not available for comment until after publication next spring, said her literary agent Andrew Lownie after the story was published in a Sunday newspaper. On February 7 this year, Vanessa wrote on her website blog: “I’m pleased to say a book that I wrote five years ago has finally made it through and will be out early 2013. It’s my mother’s life story: she was kidnapped from her village aged five then left for dead in the jungle.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troglodyte Posted November 1, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted November 1, 2012 If even half of that is true, it's one hell of a story! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 So many threads this could go into but I give you Super Great Toilet Keeper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islingtonclaret Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 what is that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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