My favourite when I was living in London was a tabloid (Sun?) headline: Kylie is an alien.
Apparently Kylie Minogue had all the attributes of a aliens who had bred with us thousands of years ago, according to an "expert". Most intriguing to the editors were aliens' small breasts, which gave them the opportunity to reprint a topless picture of her on the beach, with arrows pointing to her alien parts.
Ha! It was the Wild West in tabloid journalism in London in those days. They just wrote whatever they wanted. If they couldn't think of anything funny, they'd just go weird. Thanks for reading.
There was also the golden age of The Picture, in between being a semi-serious Aussie tabloid and a soft porn glossy, it was briefly a parody of itself. Had some classic headlines and great stories that came straight from the editors' warped minds - I don't think they even needed the seed of truth
You put a lot of work into this! That Headless Body one was pulled out in our cadetship training... as you'd know.
It's the best. So symmetrical.
One of my favourites was in early 90's in Brisbane, when Tattersalls Club voted to not allow women in their private club - "No tits for Tatts"
Can't remember which paper, we used to actually have a few, including afternoon papers, but now just the bloody Courier Mail...
Hahaha! Brilliant!!
My favourite when I was living in London was a tabloid (Sun?) headline: Kylie is an alien.
Apparently Kylie Minogue had all the attributes of a aliens who had bred with us thousands of years ago, according to an "expert". Most intriguing to the editors were aliens' small breasts, which gave them the opportunity to reprint a topless picture of her on the beach, with arrows pointing to her alien parts.
Ha! It was the Wild West in tabloid journalism in London in those days. They just wrote whatever they wanted. If they couldn't think of anything funny, they'd just go weird. Thanks for reading.
There was also the golden age of The Picture, in between being a semi-serious Aussie tabloid and a soft porn glossy, it was briefly a parody of itself. Had some classic headlines and great stories that came straight from the editors' warped minds - I don't think they even needed the seed of truth
I really enjoy it. Keep it up! (Must be a way to work that into a headline somehow...)