A Norwegian daredevil leaped off of the Empire State Building and the
Chrysler Building, but when he jumped from the World Trade Center, they
managed to arrest him. The judge let him go with no jail time, but she
confiscated his parachute. It might not be obvious, but this was easily
my naughtiest headline:
It was recently discovered that the crown prince of Jordan not only
is a huge "Star Trek" fan, but got a brief walk-on part on "Star Trek:
Voyager." The science-fiction-loving future king was thrilled, because it was:
Always eager to provide a public service, we informed our readers that April 9 would
be the best day to have sex if they're determined to have a baby on Jan. 1, 2000:
Orlando, Florida, home of Walt Disney World, found itself with such a mouse
infestation that it went on a massive, if ironic, mouse eradication campaign:
Researchers looked for connections between childhood spanking and
adult problems such as drinking and drug abuse, and found that:
When "Shakespeare in Love" won the Oscar, I worried that nobody would get the
following headline. Luckily even the boss' doorman mentioned it the next
morning so I
guess it wasn't too obscure for the ever-literate New Yorker:
Friends of a woman recently divorced from a convicted mobster rallied to
help her and her children save their home from what they said was a shady
deal by her husband's family:
The city of New York had planned to take a strip of land running
through 13 people's back yards and auction it off, but then they decided
to drop the plan:
A New Jersey man is planning to sue after getting a misspelled tattoo in which the
word "else" was written "elese." Unfortunately, he was a:
A simple new birth-control pill is being developed for men. I thought the headline
was much too juvenile to take credit for, but my sister insists that I put it
on my web page so she can see it on the other side of the country:
A British clothier, having already gained attention for including breast-cancer
information on the tags of its bras, has now started to include prostate-cancer
information in men's trousers. So now you can simply:
