Sentence examples for weird headlines from inspiring English sources

At the end of the South Africa team announcement for the third and final Test in Johannesburg, the coach of the Springboks, Peter De Villiers, for whom this has been a week of many weird headlines, was asked if he would change anything.

I read the headline "Mauling Victim Taunted Tiger" and my first response was to check it off to one weird headline in the newspaper.

This is like if they got those Facebook algorithms that write weird emotionless headlines to instead write your wedding vows.

Here's how it goes: "Roses are red/ Violets are blue/ Some weird tabloid headline should go here, ideally with a funny picture too".

If you are a monoglot English-speaker who thinks everything French is weird, this headline, from yesterday's paper, on a story about French footballers going on strike, will have suited you down to the ground: "Les strikers: French football walks out in super-tax protest".

Steven Hoffer wrote what I'm ready to declare a classic weird news headline.

Basically, I'm rather embarrassed right now, and pissed off at you, myself, and my bad fucking luck for forgetting that Vice has some pretty weird and risqué headlines in the newsletter sometimes.

Nor will you have to deal with weird and frankly disorientating headlines – like this one the front page of the Australian on Wednesday: "Malaysian underwear arrests rock high-flying families".

For years, my office was festooned with strange headlines and weird news items that I had come across, and I would glance at them for inspiration throughout the day.

The festival will kick off with a set from Weird Al Yankovic, who is headlining the pre-game event Boogie Knights alongside the Australian electronic act Art vs Science.

And so it was with some trepidation that I visited TechCrunch a few minutes ago and found that our much-vaunted redesign had "gone live", complete with gigantic headline fonts, weird underlapping images and — oh God — a new logo.