"TOT"
― s1ocki, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:15 (seventeen years ago)
RAP (as in disciplinary action)
― They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:16 (seventeen years ago)
"NAB"
(ok that gets used outside of headlines, but it's a popular one)
― s1ocki, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:17 (seventeen years ago)
STOX
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:18 (seventeen years ago)
"BID"
― some dude, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:19 (seventeen years ago)
ROMP
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:19 (seventeen years ago)
SLAY as a noun.
― Vampire romances depend on me (Laurel), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:20 (seventeen years ago)
yeah!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)
I don't get that one
― Tom D Gives You the Big Reassure (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)
row
― "goole" (goole), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:23 (seventeen years ago)
TV'S
― They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:24 (seventeen years ago)
For transvestites? How often are they in the news?
― Tom D Gives You the Big Reassure (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:24 (seventeen years ago)
Not enough, you're probably thinking
― Tom D Gives You the Big Reassure (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:25 (seventeen years ago)
RAID
― Tom D Gives You the Big Reassure (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:35 (seventeen years ago)
FAKE (for the Daily Star)
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:36 (seventeen years ago)
Probe?
― They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:37 (seventeen years ago)
HUBBY
― Tom D Gives You the Big Reassure (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:38 (seventeen years ago)
... stupid word
― Tom D Gives You the Big Reassure (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:39 (seventeen years ago)
AXE
― J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:39 (seventeen years ago)
― The Wayward Johnny B, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:39 (seventeen years ago)
obv uk/n america answers will vary, but im curious to see which ones overlap
― s1ocki, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:41 (seventeen years ago)
Was going to say SHAME, but SHAM is better
― Tom D Gives You the Big Reassure (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:43 (seventeen years ago)
SHA
― s1ocki, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:44 (seventeen years ago)
VICE GIRL
― NickB, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:44 (seventeen years ago)
RAIDER
― Tom D Gives You the Big Reassure (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)
JOY
― shoving leopard (ledge), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)
WENG
― J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:46 (seventeen years ago)
there's a great a.j. liebling piece on words that are only used in sports headlines
― and what, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:46 (seventeen years ago)
SIR and MISS for teacher
― The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:46 (seventeen years ago)
PERV
― J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:47 (seventeen years ago)
WOE
― Tom D Gives You the Big Reassure (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:47 (seventeen years ago)
British Left Waffles on Falkland IslandsDr. Ruth to Talk about Sex with Newspaper EditorsLung Cancer in Women MushroomsTeacher Strikes Idle KidsStud Tires OutSoviet Virgin Lands Short of Goal AgainShot Off Woman's Leg Helps Nicklaus to 66Reagan Wins on Budget, but More Lies AheadEnraged Cow Injures Farmer with AxeMiners Refuse to Work after DeathSquad Helps Dog Bite VictimJuvenile Court Tries Shooting DefendantStolen Painting Found by TreeKiller Sentenced to Die for Second Time in 10 YearsDrunk Drivers Paid $1,000 in 1984Grandmother of Eight Makes Hole in OneStiff opposition expected to casketless funeral planTwo Convicts Evade Noose, Jury HungSquad helps dog bite victimDealers will Hear Car Talk at NoonEnraged Cow Injures Farmer with AxMilk Drinkers are Turning to PowderNJ Judge to Rule on Nude Beach
― and what, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:48 (seventeen years ago)
Am i really the first to say: SHOCKER
― NickB, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:48 (seventeen years ago)
ROO.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:48 (seventeen years ago)
MADDY
― NickB, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:49 (seventeen years ago)
BECKS
― Tom D Gives You the Big Reassure (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:50 (seventeen years ago)
GOV
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:52 (seventeen years ago)
HIZZONER
HEIST
― NickB, Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)
NATS (for (members of) the Scottish National Party)
... don't know if this still happens, mind you, and probably only ever happened in Scottish newspapers
― Tom D Gives You the Big Reassure (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:54 (seventeen years ago)
MACCA/MUCCA
― aye it's me (onimo), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:56 (seventeen years ago)
HEZZA
― Tom D Gives You the Big Reassure (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 September 2008 14:58 (seventeen years ago)
PREZZA
― Tom D Gives You the Big Reassure (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 September 2008 15:01 (seventeen years ago)
Red Eye (the free tabloid version of the Chicago Tribune) has taken to calling Gov. Rod Blagojevich "G-ROD" in headlines.
― jaymc, Thursday, 25 September 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)
From New York's two big tabloids (never saw these idiotic words before moving here, but the use the all the time, and it drives me nuts):
SLAY (as a noun, meaning "slaying")BRAVEST (meaning "a fireman")FINEST (meaning "a policeman")
When I was a kid, I swear the paper in Cincinnati used to use REDS for Russians, which always confused me because I thought the story would be about baseball.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 25 September 2008 15:40 (seventeen years ago)
Wow, that use of SLAY is appalling!
― Tom D Gives You the Big Reassure (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 September 2008 15:41 (seventeen years ago)
LOVENEST
― DavidM, Thursday, 25 September 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)
LOVE RAT, in fact lots of ones with "love" in front.
― Neil S, Thursday, 25 September 2008 15:52 (seventeen years ago)
'SLAMS'
'BASH'
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 25 September 2008 15:54 (seventeen years ago)
NIXES
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 25 September 2008 16:02 (seventeen years ago)
FURY
― bidfurd, Thursday, 25 September 2008 19:25 (seventeen years ago)
sort of related but BBC headline says 'Rapper Rhymes detained at airport' - is there still no rapper famous enough to avoid this clarification here?
― They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:06 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
is there any person reading the bbc who thinks that "rapper rhymes" is more explanatory than "busta rhymes"
― and what, Thursday, 25 September 2008 19:27 (seventeen years ago)
Music:Jacko/WhackoMoz
Politics:DemsMob
Sports:Habs (in lieu of Canadiens)Bucs (in lieu of Pirates)Tribe (in lieu of Indians)
― henry s, Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:07 (seventeen years ago)
people say/write habs all the time tho
― s1ocki, Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:10 (seventeen years ago)
haha when i was writing political text messages i learned to use "dems" and "GOP"
― and what, Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:12 (seventeen years ago)
"omg GOP r such SOBs, where u at girl?"
― Granny Dainger, Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:19 (seventeen years ago)
LAUD
― Local Garda, Thursday, 25 September 2008 22:01 (seventeen years ago)
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s236/mezxspectrum/mirror.jpg
― DavidM, Friday, 26 September 2008 15:23 (seventeen years ago)
BOSSES
― Ste, Friday, 26 September 2008 15:29 (seventeen years ago)
(as in RED FACED BOSSES)
OUR BOYS
― aye it's me (onimo), Friday, 26 September 2008 15:35 (seventeen years ago)
(as in OUR BOYS BLITZ TALIBAN BASH)
Also BASH
― aye it's me (onimo), Friday, 26 September 2008 15:36 (seventeen years ago)
I think ROMP is the clear winner
― Ste, Friday, 26 September 2008 15:43 (seventeen years ago)
BOOZE
― Ste, Friday, 26 September 2008 15:44 (seventeen years ago)
POLS
― max is ever so fed up with all these cheeky display names!! (max), Friday, 26 September 2008 15:47 (seventeen years ago)
BOOZY POLS IN LOVE RATS NEST 3-IN-A-BED ROMP SHOCKER
― Ste, Friday, 26 September 2008 15:50 (seventeen years ago)
Haven't we done this before in a different format?
Anyway:TRYSTBEDS (as in active verb)MADCAPFUNNYMANQUIZZED
― Couldn't care less about bikey Jasper Milvain I'm afraid (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 26 September 2008 15:58 (seventeen years ago)
They probably used rapper cos every headline on BBC News Online has to be 31 to 33 characters long.
― Local Garda, Friday, 26 September 2008 20:44 (seventeen years ago)
huh? everyone says "booze" in real life. "too much booze", "need to cut down on the booze", "will ye have a booze" etc
― Local Garda, Friday, 26 September 2008 20:45 (seventeen years ago)
look booze talking, booze radley, booze your daddy....etc all common everyday phrases
― Local Garda, Friday, 26 September 2008 20:46 (seventeen years ago)
booze it or lose it, boozed and aboozed, booze your initiative, booze afraid of the big bad wolf
― Local Garda, Friday, 26 September 2008 20:47 (seventeen years ago)
booze rained down over St. James' Park
― J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Friday, 26 September 2008 21:00 (seventeen years ago)
booze booze booze, booze do you think you're kidding mr hitler, boozing my religion
― Local Garda, Friday, 26 September 2008 21:12 (seventeen years ago)
― Local Garda, Friday, 26 September 2008 21:37 (seventeen years ago)
SEX BID used in today's Sun as part of a headline about an attempted rape was kind of hall of fame offensive
― The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 23:06 (seventeen years ago)
you are the highest sex bidder
― They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 23:18 (seventeen years ago)
LOVE RATBECKS (when not referring to a popular brand of lager).
― chap, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 23:19 (seventeen years ago)
BED-IT CRUNCH
― They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Wednesday, 1 October 2008 12:54 (seventeen years ago)
Surely the "boost in sales of ... libido boosting remedies" (bad sentence) could indicate the opposite of their claim - MILLIONS of British men are on the slack due to the stress of the credit crunch, stats have shown
― The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 1 October 2008 13:05 (seventeen years ago)
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― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 14:24 (seventeen years ago)
SLAIN
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 May 2009 11:57 (seventeen years ago)
BOLT-HOLE
― vain_bowers, Thursday, 14 May 2009 11:59 (seventeen years ago)
FIND, as in "Air Force Lesbian Axed After Marriage Doc Find."
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 14:38 (sixteen years ago)
Man arrested in home invasion, pot growBy Kristina Davis
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 9:13 p.m.
CARLSBAD — A second suspect was arrested Wednesday in connection with a January home invasion robbery, two days after police found a marijuana operation inside an Oceanside home connected to the case, Carlsbad police said.
Julian Johnson, 33, surrendered at the Carlsbad police station Wednesday and was booked into jail on suspicion of several crimes, including robbery, kidnapping with the intent to commit robbery, drug sales and cultivation of marijuana, police said.
The arrest stems from a home invasion robbery Jan. 16 at a home on Avenue of the Trees in Carlsbad. Someone called 911 reporting the robbery in progress and said the assailants were armed with guns.
Officers arrived within minutes and saw one man running away. Michael Dickenson, 29, was found in the laundry room of a nearby home and arrested. The residents were not injured.
The investigation led police to search a home on Noreen Way in Oceanside on Monday. Detectives found evidence related to the robbery, as well as an indoor marijuana grow and various drugs for sale, police said.
Johnson was identified as a suspect, and police negotiated his surrender.
― kkvgz, Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:12 (fifteen years ago)
what the hell?
Like Ethan's post of egregious crash blossoms upthread.
― Joseph Beuys II Men (jaymc), Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:45 (fifteen years ago)
Anyway, it appears to have vanished from the BBCs website, so I don't know what it was about, but they had some headline on there the other day about a "Sex Death Man" or something.
― jon/via/chia/pet 2.0 (kkvgz), Thursday, 11 August 2011 12:42 (fourteen years ago)
"Dragnet for gun blast man"
^ Mark E. Smith def. stole a lot of lyrics from tabloid headlines
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 August 2011 13:28 (fourteen years ago)
NIX
― Erin Go! Bwaaaah!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:31 (fourteen years ago)
CO-ED
― Josefa, Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:52 (fourteen years ago)
that appears on t-shirts too, iirc
― kkvgz, Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:54 (fourteen years ago)
http://laxworld.com/_images/_catalog/T-DD/BIG.jpg
― kkvgz, Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:55 (fourteen years ago)
HUB for Boston
― bentelec, Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:27 (fourteen years ago)
"GONG" (as in an award)
― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 7 November 2014 17:12 (eleven years ago)
FURY is the best one. Lots of FURY going on, as opposed to mild displeasure.
― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin), Friday, 7 November 2014 17:22 (eleven years ago)
BLAZE
― soref, Friday, 7 November 2014 18:09 (eleven years ago)
ROCKER
(rip cc)
― del esdichado (NickB), Thursday, 18 May 2017 11:27 (nine years ago)
heh, was just thinking that same thing while hatereading the daily mail's coverage of cornell's death
― Drive Your Lover Wild In Bed By Cosplaying As Jeff Lynne (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 18 May 2017 12:13 (nine years ago)
BEAST and CAGED also good, special bonus points for SEX BEAST CAGED
― Drive Your Lover Wild In Bed By Cosplaying As Jeff Lynne (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 18 May 2017 12:14 (nine years ago)