To all who critique spelling and punctuation of other people Headline in Newspapers

[larrymeyer]

Man Kills Self Before Shooting Wife and Daughter
This one I caught in the SGV Tribune the other day and called the Editorial Room and asked who wrote this. It took two or three readings before the editor realized that what he was reading was impossible!!! They put in a correction the next day.



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Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
No kidding, really? Ya think?

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Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
Now that's taking things a bit far!


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Miners Refuse to Work after Death
No-good-for-nothing' lazy so-and-so's!

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Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
See if that works any better than a fair trial!

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War Dims Hope for Peace
I can see where it might have that effect!

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If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile
Ya think?!

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Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures
Who would have thought!

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Enfield ( London ) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
They may be on to something!

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Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges
You mean there's something stronger than duct tape?

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Man Struck By Lightning: Faces Battery Charge
He probably IS the battery charge!

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New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group
Weren't they fat enough?!

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Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
That's what he gets for eating those beans!

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Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
Do they taste like chicken?
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Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half
Chainsaw Massacre all over again!

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Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
Boy, are they tall!

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And the winner is....
Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead

Did I read that right?

[Curmudgeon]

I think you meant "other peopleS HeadlineS".

[HiredGoon]

What also is bad is when they use puns to try and be "clever". And most times they go too far to try and make a pun work. To me it just ends up sounding stupid.

[Kurt_M]

I was stationed in South Korea in the summer of 2002 with the US Army. For those that don't remember, that was when the North Koreans admitted to the US in diplomatic talks that they did in fact have a nuclear weapons program. The front page headline in the Stars and Stripes newspaper the next day was:

US, ALLIES DEMAND NORTH KOREA DROP NUKES

Needless to say, those of us within range of said nukes (not to mention several hundred thousand pieces of conventional artillery) did NOT think that was a good idea. It was the talk of the base for a few days, and pretty funny. I still have a copy of the paper somewhere.

[Arcana71]

I think you meant "other peopleS HeadlineS".

And to think... you were just an apostrophe away from being right about that!