Comments on: Why Print Cannot Die: The Funniest Newspaper Articles

By: PaulVI

PaulVI — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:57:03 +0000

How about this one from 2007:

“Anna Nicole Smith Body Held in Baby Case”

Without thinking, I wondered how the body fit in the case.

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-29643966_ITM

By: PaulVI

PaulVI — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:54:04 +0000

I remember the “toy Yoda” case. The radio station/DJs were ordered to give her a new car.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:10:22 +0000

Hmmm, seems like this is a tribute to the best content stolen without attribution from Criggo…

http://criggo.wordpress.com/

By: Morgan

Morgan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:55:10 +0000

Omg, the toy Yoda gag had me peeing my pants laughing!

By: tinfoil

tinfoil — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:23:16 +0000

My wife was stuck behind this accident on her way into London. Good to see The Sun is still having some fun.

By: Essie

Essie — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:39:09 +0000

yay London Ontario !

By: Screen Sleuth

Screen Sleuth — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:12:30 +0000

That link almost made me spit out my orange juice…did no editor look at that??

By: melanie

melanie — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:25:59 +0000

that was a wonderful link. i laughed so hard. thanks for making my day!

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:33:19 +0000

That was worth a chuckle, but this still takes the cake.

http://www.thelocal.se/616/20041111/

By: Kev

Kev — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:59:43 +0000

Oh, and Oxford Road 6 is near my house!

By: Kev

Kev — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:58:32 +0000

The Condom Truck one is from the Toronto Sun – dumbed down news for people who don’t like too much analysis or critical thinking in the morning.

I point this out because I don’t want people thinking that this headline was a mistake; it’s fairly typical fare from the headline editors at the Toronto Sun. I don’t read the Sun, but if I come across a copy in a coffee shop, I sometimes scan their headlines because they’re like this!

I’ve often thought that they like to slip in these little word plays just so they can have fun wondering whether or not it’s going to go right over their reader’s heads. Another thing they like to do; have a big colour front page picture and a giant attention-grabbing front page headline that have nothing to do with each other, but are funny in juxtaposition.

It’s always fun to check out the Sun boxes as I walk by and see what kind of twisted meaning they have created by mashing up unrelated words and images.