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January 19, 2007
Friday
 
 
Best headline ever
James Waterton (Perth, Australia)  Humour • Media & Journalism

Sex Dispute Ends In Tractor Rampage

Hot diggety dog. Don't they always?

(Via Drunkablog)

Comments

I've seen better. For example, consider the ancient New York Post headline "Headless Body in Topless Bar"...


Posted by Perry E. Metzger at January 19, 2007 05:23 PM

It's still pretty good, no?

"Headless body in topless bar" is too punnish - not buying it. However...."Sex dispute ends in tractor rampage" makes you think that some really stupid people actually gave cause to warrant that headline.


Posted by James Waterton at January 19, 2007 05:26 PM

The Post headline is real, and quite famous. It involved an actual incident in which a beheaded body was found in a topless bar.


Posted by Perry E. Metzger at January 19, 2007 05:57 PM

Nah - nothing beats "Queen in brawl at Palace".


Posted by ian at January 19, 2007 05:59 PM

This makes me wonder: was there ever an actual headline that read "Man bites dog"?


Posted by Alisa at January 19, 2007 07:19 PM

This makes me wonder: was there ever an actual headline that read "Man bites dog"?

Yes. For cuteness's sake, in covering the food served at the county fair.


Posted by triticale at January 19, 2007 09:37 PM

I tried to have rampaging sex on a tractor once, but we kept falling out of that little seat.

Damn thing needed stirrups or something.


Posted by veryretired at January 20, 2007 01:31 AM

Potential "Head"line and better story:

English Samurai Saves Police

...two off-duty detectives...heard the screams of a woman and entered the premises to investigate. They confronted the intruders, but, being out-numbered and out-armed, quickly lost control of situation. Accounts vary, but it appears that just as one of the robbers drew his knife and lunged at one of the cops, a mustachioed do-gooder appeared out of the blue brandishing a three-foot samurai sword.

I am rewriting the lyrics to Team America in my head...


Posted by bastiat at January 20, 2007 03:59 AM

You call THAT the tractor story?


Posted by Vanya at January 21, 2007 12:18 AM

Yeah, the story is arse. Don't bother reading it. Headline's good, though.


Posted by James Waterton at January 21, 2007 03:06 AM

Drew Barrymore Likes to Run Naked in Irish Wheat Fields


Posted by Steven Den Beste at January 22, 2007 12:06 AM
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