The best headline ever

I once as a very young editor sleepily made a dummy head on a story with a picture of a young woman on it that was “XXX Head Here” that I realized quickly would’ve gone real bad for me if it had gotten through the editing process somehow.

I started using long strings of Z’s from that point forward.

 

Rookie.

You need some ascenders and descenders.

 

I was and remained a rookie. That cool $9 an hour and free 20 hours of overtime I gave them every week was coming my way whether it looked pretty or not. I needed the extra time to write overwrought high school gamers nobody read.

 

Back in the old pasteup days we had a headline that . . . literally fell off the page as it was being carried to the plate guys.

They didn't notice, and the last thing editorial saw was a page proof of a headline that was where it should be. Next morning we wake up to a blank space above the photo.

Of course, it was the lead sports story head, too.

Biggest embarrassment since our 1984 football secti0n had "1983" in the folios. Neither Big Brother nor anyone else was watching that closely enough.

 

Bumping for this feature on sea lions gathering at San Francisco's Pier 39.

2,000 Sea Lions Roamed, Just to Make This Dock Their Home

 

(Otis) Redding, Calif. (AP) --

 

Topeka Capital-Journal years ago
Topeka High School Trojans defeat Topeka Seamen.
Yep.


TROJANS STOP SEAMEN

 

Wisconsin's governors enjoy line-item veto power. They have often deleted words and letters from legislation to alter or even reverse a bill's impact. One year Gov. Tommy Thompson made heavy use of the line-item veto. This headline in the Green Bay Press-Gazette drew some newsroom horselaughs.

Tommy's pen is a sword

 

Subhed: Extra-large defensive barrier never leaks; offense enjoys smooth penetration

(Sorry.)

 

Booooooo!!!!!!