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Humour in the Press
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Behind every newspaper headline lurks a newspaper deadline.
The men and women who compose the headlines work within pressing restrictions
of time and space. Amongst other restrictions they have to be written in a
fraction of the time thought hunanly possible. Some of the best headlines are
those in which an inadvertent pun lifts the message from the blandly literal
to the sublimely absurd, headlines such as:-
GRANDMOTHER OF EIGHT MAKES HOLE IN ONE
DEAF MUTE GETS NEW HEARING IN MURDER TRIAL
DEFENDANTS SPEECH ENDS IN LONG SENTENCE
ASBESTOS SUIT PRESSED
DOCTOR TESTIFIES IN HORSE SUIT
COMPLAINTS ABOUT FA REFEREES GROWING UGLY
POLICE BEGIN CAMPAIGN TO RUN DOWN JAYWALKERS
HOUSE PASSES GAS TAX ONTO LORDS
POLICE DISCOVER CRACK IN LIVERPOOL
MEN RECOMMEND MORE CLUBS FOR WIVES
TWO MURDERERS ESCAPE NOOSE:JURY HUNG
CHINESE APEMAN DATED
MAN HELD OVER NEW FOREST FIRE
MILK DRINKERS ARE TURNING TO POWDER
HALF-MILLION ITALIAN WOMEN SEEN ON PILL
SAFETY EXPERTS SAY SCHOOL BUS PASSENGERS SHOULD BE BELTED
10 NIGERIAN REVOLTING OFFICERS EXECUTED
QUARTER OF A MILLION CHINESE LIVE ON WATER
DRUNK GETS 9 MONTHS IN VIOLIN CASE
JUDGE ACTS TO REOPEN THEATER
SURVIVOR OF SIAMESE TWINS JOINS PARENTS
CARRIBEAN ISLANDS DRIFT TO LEFT
THUGS EAT THEN ROB PROPRIETOR
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Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) guerrilla leaders demanded on Monday at the Commonwealth
conference, that a peacekeeping force of several thousand men - one with teeth,
be sent to enforce a cease-fire in the war against their forces.
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In a Tokyo hotel; YOU ARE INVITED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CHAMBERMAID
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In the lobby of a Moscow hotel opposite a Russian Orthodox monastery: You
are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers
Artists and authors are buried daily except Thurdays.
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On the room door at the same hotel: If this is your first visit to the USSR
you are welcome to it.
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