In August 2000 I stumbled upon a list of amusing headlines – headlines which for one reason or another had rather dubious double meanings. The headlines read as follows:
- Include your children when baking cookies
- Something went wrong in Jet crash, expert says
- Police begin campaign to run down jaywalkers
- Iraqi head seeks arms
- Prostitutes appeal to Pope
- Panda mating fails, Veterinarian takes over
- Clinton wins on budget, but more lies ahead
- Miners refuse to work after death
- Stolen painting found by tree
- War dims hop for peace
- If strike isn’t settled quickly, it may last a while
- Cold wave linked to temperatures
- Red tape holds up new bridges
- Typhoon rips through cemetery – hundreds dead
- Man struck by lightning faces battery charge
- New study of obesity looks for larger test group
- Kids make nutritious snacks
- Chef throws his heart into helping feed needy
- Local high school dropouts cut in half
- Hospitals are sued by seven foot doctors
For what may very well be completely spurious reasons, I decided that these headlines would be even more amusing with some visual aids to support them – and so I put out a call to the weblogging community of the time. With hilarious consequences…
| “Kids make nutritious snacks” by David Pannett |
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| “Prostitutes appeal to Pope” by Meg Pickard |
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| “Include your children when baking cookies” by Brad Morse |
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| “Chef throws his heart into helping feed needy” by Neale Talbot |
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| “Minors refuse to work after death” by Meg Pickard |
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| “Police begin campaign to run down jaywalkers” by Jason Theriault |
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| “Panda mating fails, veterinarian takes over” by Marshall |
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| “Panda mating fails, veterinarian takes over” by Meg Pickard |
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| “Local high school dropouts cut in half” by David Pannett |
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Unfortunately there’s one entry (never before seen) that I have lost the original contributor for. If you made it, please let me know!
| “Red tape holds up new bridges” |
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