Weird headlines

Post by **Dale** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:13 pm

I collected weird and incomprehensible headlines. This one meets criteria, although I'm sure it makes sense to people in the UK.

Blow for terrestrial TV cricket

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4176714.stm

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:20 pm

You still didn't get it after reading the article?

Post by **Dale** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:23 pm

I can't read English.

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:23 pm

Wombat wrote:You still didn't get it after reading the article?

Oy, it's grickett! Totally incomtrehensible to us over here...we dont have kriggit, we dont watch crikkit so we just are confused....

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:30 pm

The article is only incidentally about cricket. The gist of it is that Test cricket matches are no longer listed amongst the sporting events which have to be made available to the public on free to air television. Australia has a similar ranking system to prevent major events slipping into the pay TV category. I might be grafting an Australian understanding of the situation onto it but that is in essence what it's about, I think.

Post by **Dale** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:33 pm

I just thought for a minute when I saw the headline that maybe some loveable insect cartoon character was in trouble for cocaine. Thought maybe that had brought him down to earth, so to speak.

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:37 pm

Wombat wrote:The article is only incidentally about cricket. The gist of it is that Test cricket matches are no longer listed amongst the sporting events which have to be made available to the public on free to air television. Australia has a similar ranking system to prevent major events slipping into the pay TV category. I might be grafting an Australian understanding of the situation onto it but that is in essence what it's about, I think.

man, I hardly understand the ranking rules for college football and now you wanna throw this at me

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 1:44 pm

DaleWisely wrote:I just thought for a minute when I saw the headline that maybe some loveable insect cartoon character was in trouble for cocaine. Thought maybe that had brought him down to earth, so to speak.

Well that is a subtext. I just thought I'd explain the less credible stuff.

seisflutes · Post by **seisflutes** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 4:23 pm

Yellow Perch Decline to be Studied.

Experts Increase Probability of a Big Quake in California

4-H Girls Win Prizes for Fat Calves.

Typhoon Rips Cemetery, Hundreds Dead.

These are old, and pretty well known, but I like them.

flanum · Post by **flanum** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:23 pm

Ones from my own local newspaper 'The Anglo-Celt' :

"New school for Muff" ...

(Muff is the name of a small town near Cavan, it also has another meaning)

"Violent assault with Basketball bat"

And in the classifieds.."Man wanted to milk nanny clarke, cavan." (note the comma!).

They are quite excellent at these mistakes. In fact i used to date the daughter of the guy who proof-reads for them.

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:55 pm

This might be a myth, but one I heard about recently concerned a six-nil football loss suffered by Celtic against Caledonian (ie, the Callies)

The headline was:

Super Callies go Ballistic, Celtic are Atrocious!

missy · Post by **missy** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:09 pm

oh, simon - that's BAD!!!!!!

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:39 pm

Normally regarding Cricket I'd say I hate every one of the noisy green so-and-sos...

But Allowing the Cricketers to use Blow during a test match would probably make for a faster-paced, more imaginitive game. I'm all for it. I might even take up the game...

rebl_rn · Post by **rebl_rn** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:59 pm

My favorite headline was from a junk fax we got at our office:

On Sale January 9th: Sexually Transmitted Diseases! Order Today!

It was for a book about the treatment of said STD's, but someone could have written a better headline don't you think? Then again, it certainly got our attention!

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:17 pm

s1m0n wrote:This might be a myth, but one I heard about recently concerned a six-nil football loss suffered by Celtic against Caledonian (ie, the Callies)

The headline was:

Super Callies go Ballistic, Celtic are Atrocious!

This is a true story.

The sports writer in question thought of the headline at a time when Ally McQuoist (Super Ally) played for Rangers but never got the chance to use it until the shock defeat of the century!

Slan,
D.