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The `most celebrated Post wood [0] of all time: "Headless body in topless bar."`[1] [0] Wood is a banner headline, because the largest handset letters were mad
by dankohn1 12y ago
The `most celebrated Post wood [0] of all time: "Headless body in topless bar."`[1]
[0] Wood is a banner headline, because the largest handset letters were made of wood to save costs.
[1] http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2012/01/5137028/real-story-headless-body-topless-bar-argued-veterans-post http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2012/01/5137028/...
- yen223 12y agoThere's a similar one, possibly apocryphal. When Michael Foot led a nuclear disarmament organization, a newspaper ran with "Foot Heads Arms Body" My personal favourite: A while back, tight-rope walkers crossed the Han river in Korea. The Washington Post chose to run with "Skywalkers in Korea Crossed Han Solo" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050300374.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05...
- gadders 12y agoI prefer "Book Lack in Onger". "When I asked colleagues around the office to nominate a favourite, the one that came up most frequently was (not from the Guardian), Book lack in Ongar - on a report about a crisis in the library service in Essex. (For the benefit of English language students at the international school in Frankfurt, whose teacher asked for a glossary of headline puns, this one is a play - no pun intended - on the title of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger)." http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jan/26/books.guardianreview5 http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jan/26/books.guardianr... Or possibly "How do you solve a problem like Korea?" from the Sun: http://btoe-images.s3.amazonaws.com/things/large/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-korea.jpg?1345814357 http://btoe-images.s3.amazonaws.com/things/large/how-do-you-...