The following are real strange headlines from various newspapers.
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I would like MORE. So if you have any just drop me a line to the address below.
On Thursday, September 07, 2000 this list exceeded 1000 headlines.
Unlike other headline lists on the web, this list is updated on a monthly basis and where possible
I have listed the paper where the headline origniated.
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- [President] Bush "Dramatically Less Visible" -- AP headline
- [Roman Catholic] Priest Pleads Guilty to Making Date-Rape Drug -- Reuters
- Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over
- Panther Mauled In Election For Mayor -- Hong Kong Standard.
- Panthers Destroy Viking Visitors -- Peterborough Evening Telegraph.
- Passengers To Wait 10 Years For Fast Trains -- The Times
- Pastor Aghast After First Lady Sex Position
- Pastor Fighting To Stop Shop Selling Inflatable Sheep On Sundays - Western Mail
- Patient At Death's Door -Doctors Pull Him Through
- Patient With Bad Knee Has Surgery On Healthy Tooth
- Pavarotti Anticipating Eclipse -- AP headline
- Pd Senator Speculates On A Future In Outer Space -- Irish Times
- Peacock Pops Alien Invaders
- Pelicans May Be Turned Into Puffins -- The News(Portsmouth).
- Penguin Dung May Hold Key To Human Flu -- South China Morning Post
- Peruvian Head Takes Mystery Trip – Seattle Times
- Petroleum Jelly Keeps Idle Tools Rust -Free - Chicago Daily News
- Phallus Museum Erected in Reykjavik
- Phantom Actor Sues -- Daily Telegraph
- Phantom Bus Didn't Show -- South Bucks Star
- Phantom Patients Offer Healthy Income -- Guardian
- Phantom Told To Pay Wife £3,000 A Month -- Metro (London).
- Physicist Recommends Bigger Balls To Slow Down Male Tennis Players - Guardian
- Pig Music Ordered Turned Down -- AP headline
- Pigs Fly Flag For Farmers -- Brisbane (Australia) Courier-Mail
- Pilot Vows To Quit Flying After Landing On His Wife
- Pirates Could Be Jailed -- Halifax Evening Courier.
- Pit Bulls Love You, Really
- Plane Too Close To Ground, Crash Probe Told
- Planned Parenthood Looking For Volunteers
- Planning Experts At Odds On Impact Of "Missing Link"
- Plastic Factory Worked Burned -- Coventry Eve. Telegraph
- Platform Shoes Claim Another Life -- Reuters headline
- Please Visit Cairo but Without Your Chimpanzee Friends, Officials Say
- Plenty of Sex Advised for Successful Pregnancy -- Reuters headline
- Pogo Stick Girl Saves Mother From Knifeman
- Pole Sets World Record for Pole-Sitting -- AP headline
- Police Begin Campaign To Run Down Jaywalkers
- Police Discover Crack In Australia
- Police Find Burglar Through Yellow Snow He Left Behind -- Reno Gazette-Journal headline
- Police Hunt Spoons -- Falmouth Packet
- Police Kill Youth In Effort To Stop His Suicide Attempt
- Police Pay £20,000 For Dead Parrots -- Daily Record.
- Police Plea On Speed -- Northampton Herald & Post.
- Police Probe 'Suspicious' Body in Cemetery -- PA headline
- Police Say Man Who Swallowed $37,500 Gem Has Yielded Loot -- Chicago Tribune headline
- Police Search Home 300 Times, Find Nothing -- Reuters headline
- Police Seek Witnesses To Assault -- Richmond Borough Guardian
- Police Sing For Animals -- Brighton & Hove Albion.
- Police Spray Knife Man On Train -- Sydney Dally Telegraph.
- Police Suspicious after Body Found in Graveyard -- Halifax (Canada) Chronicle-Herald headline
- Police Target "Invisible" Cycle Riders -- Cornish Guardian
- Police Want Extra Eyes To Catch Impaired Drivers -- North Bay Nugget (Ontario)
- Police Work a Lot Safer Than in 1970 -- AP headline;
Two Cops Killed Attempting Arrest -- AP headline that appeared much later the same day
- Police: Body Cavity Search Reveals Crack -- La Crosse (Wisc.) Tribune headline
- Police: Man Killed Wife, Self, Set Fire -- Houston Chronicle headline
- Political Apathy Growing, Poll Shows -- UPI Headline
- Politician Says Too Busy to Cheat on His Wife -- Reuters headline
- Poll Shows Voters Prefer Bush at Barbecue -- AP headline
- Poop Scooper Finds Job Fun, Refreshing -- AP headline
- Pope To Fly In Hellfire Helicopter -- D. Telegraph.
- Portable Toilet Bombed Police Have Nothing To Go On -Newton Daily News
- Postmen Taught How To Walk -- Daily Mail
- Postmistress Is Sued By Killer For Missing FT -- Daily Telegraph
- Potato, Dancing Raisins Cut a Deal -- AP headline
- Potential Of Dublin As A "Solar Capital" Is Discussed
- Poverty Lags In Mississippi Delta
- Prehistoric Man Gets Lift In A Hearse -- Western Mail
- Presidential Footwear on Display -- AP headline
- Priest Duels With Dracula -- Mltcham & Morden Guardian.
- Priest in Fatal Crash Improves -- Lakeland (Fla.) Ledger headline
- Prosecution Paints O.J. As A Wife-Killer -- Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, January 25
- Prosecutor Releases Probe Into Undersheriff
- Prostitute Says Government Ruining Trade -- Reuters headline
- Prostitutes Appeal To Pope
- Prostitutes To Hold Open Day -- Irish Times
- Protecting Thanet's Cuntryside -- Adscene - Thanet
- Psychic Ferrets Take Over Couple's World -- Derby Evening Telegraph
- Psychotic White Rhino Boards Freedom Flight
- Public Swings In Favour Of The Prince-- The Times
- Pupils Train As Counsellors To Help Upset Classmates -- The Times
- Pusat Islam: Aliens Among Shi'ite Leaders
- Putin Pardons Pope - Brisbane Courier Mail
- Pygmy Caught In Mousetrap -- Northampton Chronicle & Echo
- Python Savages Parrot -- Wales On Sunday
Many thanks to Richard Edkins, Jon Hall, B G Dorgan and Hawkmoon for submitting quite a few headlines, Andy from Seagate for the trash compacter story, Colin Matthews, Mike Wilson, Jennifer Woodmansee, Newt, Dave Monk, David Cook, Lynda Featherstone, John McBride for informing me of my Googlewhack "Malaysian Gyrator" [ GoogleWhack ], Anna Tickle, Katy Smith, Jim Ness for the Air Head Fired source, Debbie Carter, Terry Shea, Steve Cawood of the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo.
Special thanks to [ Randy Cassingham ]
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