Rantings of a sub-editor

November 24, 2010

Irish politicians are…

Filed under: great headlines,Useless gobshites — substuff @ 11:59 am
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Profound stuff from the Irish Daily Star. (Thanks to Andy for this).

Incidentally, I was going to headline this “Profound or profane?”, but then some sixth sense (habit, probably) made me check the dictionary. Profane means unreligious, or blasphemous – so I would have been wrong to use it to mean rude and sweary. Yeah yeah, you already knew that, I know.

June 26, 2010

Why you can’t write the head without seeing the pic…

Filed under: frozen sperm,great headlines — substuff @ 6:15 pm
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I’m going to admit straight away that this is:

a) very out of date
b) stolen from The Grey Cardigan

… but it did just reduce me to very unladylike tears, so I had to share it.

June 24, 2010

Sub surrenders

Filed under: great headlines,the four-liner — substuff @ 4:01 pm

“Hell, I’m taking half the page!”

Thanks to Charlie for this from the Dublin Evening Herald.

March 11, 2010

Cheeky Metro headline

Filed under: acupuncture for fertility,great headlines — substuff @ 10:41 am
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Tucked away on a little story about a study finding acupuncture doesn’t help with fertility:

“A prick that won’t get you pregnant”

Lovely stuff.

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