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.

Last modified: Thursday, 16-Sep-2004 14:10:47 BST

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  1. Race Cyclists Caught Speeding -- Reuters headline
  2. Rats Con Woman, 78, Out Of £3000 Savings -- Greenwhich Mercury
  3. Rattle To Lead Berlin Philharmonic -- AP headline
  4. Reagan Wins On Budget, But More Lies Ahead
  5. Real Godmother Becomes Fairy Godmother -- The Dally Observer (St John's, Antigua).
  6. Recreational Use of Viagra Dangerous -- UPI headline
  7. Rector With Crowbar Seeks To Lay Nun's Ghost -- Daily Graphic.
  8. Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge
  9. Report: Depression Causes Impotence
  10. Report: U.S. Scientists Create 'Living Breasts'
  11. Research: Beer Stops Cancer Damage -- UPI headline
  12. Researcher Links Obesity, Food Portions -- AP headline
  13. Researchers Locate Tomato Gene -- AP headline
  14. Researchers Can See Thoughts
  15. Revolt By Yard Men
  16. Rhode Island Seeks Weightless Prison -- Lewiston (ME) Sun Journal
  17. Rhode Island to Honor Mr. Potato Head -- AP headline
  18. Ribena Offer To Blood Service
  19. Right To Die Advocate Found Dead.
  20. Rise Of 'Mutants' Leaves France A Divided Nation – Times
  21. Risque Business: Misguided Skating Officials Are Cracking down on Pelvis-Pumping and Lap-Dancing - as Though People Actually Want to Watch Olympians Skate -- San Francisco Chronicle headline
  22. RJB To Spend £50m On Lifting Australian Stake - The Times
  23. Robber Holds Up Albert's Hosiery
  24. Robber Orders Starbucks Employee To Ground -- clickondetroit.com
  25. Robber Sawed His Father In Half
  26. Robbers Attack School in Pretoria -- AP headline
  27. Rolling Stones Give Free Concert - No One Killed -- Reuters headline
  28. Rotarians, be patriotic! Learn to shoot yourself -- from the Chicago Rotary Club journal Gyrator
  29. RSPCA Fights Motorbikes For Hamsters -- Daily Telegraph
  30. Russia's Economic Woes Outweigh The Universe -- Guardian
  31. Russia's Statistics Boss Accused of Fraud
  32. Russia Unsure of Where Fugitive Is -- AP headline
  33. Russian Troops Tell Of Invisible Enemy -- Guardian.
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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