"If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it"
I remember the class when I offered my students to discuss the most recent breaking news and gave them some printed articles under unintentionally funny headlines. At first they didn’t realize that there was something wrong with the headlines but when they did our discussion took a completely different direction. The class appeared to be much better than I expected. The students were so involved and eager to share their own experiences of encountering weird slogans and misspellings on billboards. Remembering that, I decided to surf the Internet looking for examples of funny stuff that appears in newspapers, ads, shops, hotels, restaurant menus. Enjoy!
Newspapers:
- Reward for schoolgirls who don’t get pregnant
- Cockfight ring is air conditioned
- One-armed man applauds the kindness of strangers
- Puerto-Rican Teen named mistress of Universe
- Two Sisters Reunited After 18 Years In Checkout
- Local High School Dropouts Cut In Half
- Eastern Head Seeks Arms
- William Kelly was fed secretary
- Milk drinkers are turning to powder
- Quarter of a million Chinese live on water
- Tiger Woods plays with own balls, Nike says
- Meeting on open meeting is closed
- Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 25
