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Tag: ‘funny-headlines’



CNN Goes Freudian

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

Apparently, CNN International — the version of CNN that we don’t get here in the US — made a little boo-boo the other day when running news about British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s resignation. Normally CNN International is vastly superior to the domestic product and its more inane version, Headline News, which features the same vapid coverage with smaller words.

On this occasion, however, the person in charge of captions was either typing too fast, or they’re a little dyslexic and their deepest, darkest Freudian fantasies came out when they were unable to tell the difference between two world leaders whose names both start with “B”:

Bush resigns -- not

Obviously, this isn’t a plot from the pinko leftist commies to discredit the president — it only ran once and was corrected pretty quickly. It is, however, highly amusing, and I intend to pull up this image many times during the remaining 18 months of campaigning for the White House…

BBC: Man Cuts Off Own Penis in a Restaurant

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

The story sorta speaks for itself.

There are other ways to protest lousy service, though…

Accidental Invasion

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

I love stuff like this because it’s another illustration of how absurd world politics can be sometimes. I had to do a double-take to make sure I wasn’t accidentally reading The Onion when I saw the headline: Switzerland Accidentally Invades Liechtenstein.

Of course, it’s all a story about an army unit that got lost and accidentally crossed the border in the middle of the night — plus, Liechtenstein doesn’t have an army of its own — but who says the AP doesn’t have a flair for the dramatic? Wouldn’t you just love to be able to tell a story that starts with, “You know, there was this one time that I accidentally invaded Liechtenstein … “?

 

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