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Oct 6, 2016 7:22 PM
whysosingle
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CountessVonFingerbang
Real talk: If your'e into this and ever visit Washington DC, make sure you go to the Newseum. There's a section with important front pages.
Olpa
Not exatly the Most important since it is basically just America
whysosingle
Ah, but nobody said "most."
Olpa
Ah i misread the title since english is not my native language
1010001010101
I wish they would go back to calling dead people "souls lost." It's much more poetic. 100 dead vs 100 souls lost
ImThePastTenseOfDraw
What grabs your attention more to buy a paper? "10 souls lost in car mishap" or "10 dead bodies mangled in vehicle tragedy!!!!!!!!!!"
DrO3
100 meat sacks cease to operate
RyanAndTheQuestForWorldDomination
Negative, I am a meat Popsicle.
Flyndaran
News shouldn't make poetic editorializations like that. It's news, not high school poetry slams.
jokerpokert
Couldn't agree more
DylanRaj
John Lennon's death has no business being up here with Flying Dildo. -1 for you sir
whysosingle
John Lennon had a sense of humour. +1 Yoko Ono for you sir.
DylanRaj
Oh yeah? Well Right back at yah...
BillyWarg
Ah, yes. The flying dildo incident. I'll never be able to forget that day, it's engraved into my memory.
IronRod
It really is one of those moments when you remember exactly where you were when you heard the news.
therocksfannypack
Omg at the last one
ArseFaceofOakvale
"Probably 1250 perish" accurate news titles.
firefighter26
It could take days for accurate information to come out so I assume they were just slapping something in the headline to boost sales.
DeadCrab
Kind of refreshing to see a media source not just making shit up and being honest that they don't know something.
dragonraven13
It's chilling to think about how many people died on that pleasure cruise.
DanteHicks79
Considering the bulk of passengers were third class immigrants seeking new life in America, it was hardly a pleasure cruise.
JaimeFookinLannister
Even today the exact numbers are unknown; Wikipedia states 'Between 1,490 and 1,635 deaths'.
ElinborgTheViking
"Mrs. Astor Maybe" what?! Who cares about the rest, please lord may Mrs. Astor be safe!
nikseen
Well if Bill Gates' wife had been on a sunken ship the news today would mention her separately as well
DanteHicks79
Exactly. She was married to the wealthiest man on the planet. Kinda earned herself a mention or two in the rags.
DanteHicks79
The first reports of the sinking were relayed by Morse code and telegraphs. There was a lot of chatter, and confusion about what happened.
ExtraZOIDBERG
"Honey, the president's been assassinated... and OH MY GOD THERE'S A SALE AT PENNY'S"
KarlderMarder
Thanks god history just started when america was discovered.... there's no history untill that moment
BlueStringsAttached
+1 for the flying carrot advertisement underneath the dildo story
AlaskanNinja
Jap Anus At War
Aharit
I understood that reference. Mostly because I was going to make the same one.
KrustyPartiallyGelatinatedNonDairyGumBasedBeverage
Where did the dildo come from?
whysosingle
Well, when two people really love each other....
Shemjaza
That stripper must have some series core strength...
Dugalug
It's the resulting infection I'm worried about...
MidKnightDreary
Is nobody going to mention the Wiggles concert giveaway?
SnakesAreAwesome
I know right how in hell was that not the front page story?
HD226868
~One of these things is not like the other! One of these things just doesn't belong!
PastaPriest
WHAT IF I SAID I'M NOT LIKE THE OTHERS?
Misora
By the time you finish this song?
Relykwastaken
What if I say I'm not just another
MandaloreIncognito
#8 Wait, seriously? "Maj. Butt Aboard"
Darthtador
Lol. I just saw that too.
demigod123456
LemonStarbursts
heeheehee
FlimFlamMan2
He was rescued by Hugh Jass
HeyOhBotchedToe
I love this website. I forgot all the sadness and came down here all giddy to tell you guys about Maj. Butt, and I wasn't even the first.
dxt6191
Butt is a common last name in Pakistan.
Frugtkagen
Yeah, but this bloke was British.
a55mu11e7
hehehe
RepostSadistic
http://www.biography.com/people/major-archibald-butt-283834
MandaloreIncognito
Well, I'll be Goddamned.
PenisOfDeath
Such an unfortunate name
undungubungu
Well, at least you remember him now because of it!
falconca
Front page dump
juzsayin
As an Australian, yes, the last one was ours.
jo3v
Ah the Northern Territory... the place the government forgot to monitor.
UpvoteSquirrel
only forgot to monitor it because it "liberated" it from South Australia and then let it go to ruin. Bloody convicts.
jo3v
The sun has not been kind to these people. Lucky for you southerners, they prefer to live in no other place than the NT.
CallMeOldFashionedBut
The NT News should seriously be the top national rag.
jo3v
Cant beat that crocodile coverage.
LazloKnight
TIL the guy they cast to be the captain in the Titanic movie was dead on
JaimeFookinLannister
And he's the same guy who played Théoden.
TheWorldIsATollFreeToilet
https://img.ifcdn.com/images/d81576151fcedca6314867ee4304233becb4eeda19a8f92bd0f0ca3edef20d5e_1.jpg
PeterMerkin
The Wiggles in concert?!? Fuck YEAH!
Hillarylct
All of these (besides the joke one) has impacted the world in a big way so they can be counted as world history. 858
MikeMcAwesome91
Where did it come from?????
Refmylife
Your butt.
keeblur
"19,000,000 shares change hands" lol
firefighter26
Tabloid newspapers at the grocery store check out pretty much invented click baiting.
iWasToldThereWouldBe
Was it just the Tabloids sold by grocery stores at their check out areas?
whysosingle
Right?!
iHveNoCleverName
RIGHT! Right? Right.
diddleyhole
Those and mall kiosks
iWasToldThereWouldBe
Yeah! Mall Kiosks too :)
ThatAssholeOverThere
I once saw one claiming obama was an islamic terrorist, and it had a picture of him with a craply photoshoped turban on
EchoOfSnac
I walk past them daily. Apparently Hillary Clinton has every type of cancer, Robin Williams was actually murdered, and the Queen abdicated.
CrabWallet
"Headline said high ranking member of royal family caught in women's clothing, of course it was just the Queen, but by then you'd bought it"
JaredKidd
Analogue click-baiting
WalkerLillard
Does Bruno Mars Is Gay?
JohnnyTitelips
I want to grab those editors by the shoulders, shake them, and repeatedly say "Who. The fuck. Cares?"
Giraffosaurus
Me too. One was laying open at my grandma's house the other day with a whole 2 page spread on how ugly some celebrities necks have gotten.
d3jake
That's what flashes through my head with any headline online or random radio DJ chatter.
xsibleyx
You should check out #stopclickbait. It's a facebook page that goes through and gives you a synopsis, So you never need click.
JohnnyTitelips
I'm aware of it, but I appreciate the sentiment. :-)
chip2711
The worst part is that this isn't a tabloid paper, this is THE paper for the entire state/territory. Always leads with stories like this
chip2711
BoogaAndTheB52
I found out recently that the only reason the Hindenburg was filled with hydrogen rather than much safer helium was because America 1/?
Flyndaran
Except it didn't explode. It burned due to flammable paint something that would have happened if it had been filled with air.
BoogaAndTheB52
basically had a monopoly on its extraction and passed an act in 1927 banning its exportation because it was so useful for military 2/?
MidlandRedux
That stuff was so precious no one who had any would have exported it. They had enough enough for a few navy dirigibles. That was it.
BoogaAndTheB52
but also relatively scarce still. Not saying they should've sold some to the Nazis but it was an interesting answer to my own question 3/4
BoogaAndTheB52
about why the hell people would fill an enormous metallic balloon with a gas they knew to be very flammable. 4/4
MidlandRedux
Same reason people put wings on an enormous metal cylinder and fill those wings with flammable liquid. To fly.
whysosingle
Whoa whoa whoa there. Make your own post, buddy.
BoogaAndTheB52
I'm not really a poster. I just write obscenely long strings of comments and curse the character limit. :)
PianoMan2112
There's fights back & forth about it (@mistersavage please step in), but the fabric's coating might have been worse than the hydrogen.
Dugalug
Dang.
LukeIsSkywalking
Mrs Astor maybe survived
MFfromHell
No no, Mrs. Astor maybe, noted names missing. I guess she was just unsure of herself when she noted those missing names.
AlteredEgo1
They were unsure if it was Mrs. Astor or a shape shifting mermaid that snuck onto a life raft.
wuvmykittycat
Major Butt aboard!
thecheesedip
Yeah, his name was Billy Zane.
DanteHicks79
TheDrunkNinja
"Coast Guard rescuers were quoted stating, 'Fuck if we know.'"
WhotheFuckAretheArcticMonkeyss
Mr. Astor (Jacob) was probably the richest man on earth at the time. He perished with the Titanic. His wife survived.
LukeIsSkywalking
I didn't know that - thank you!
SamHeldComics
Actually, he fell into the sewers and became a mutant
CrabWallet
I assume there were conflicting reports, it probably took longer to confirm facts abroad back then.
PhilbertPhrog
Well the Carpathia landed in New York before the reports were published...
DanteHicks79
Incorrect. Carpathia was still at sea when the first headlines were published. The week after was full of confusion/conflicting reports.
TheSecondPiewackit
Probably, like... 1250 or something perished.
SederHishtalshelus
I laughed so hard when I read that
claudesniper
Don't forget that languages' words' true meanings may change slightly over time, "probably" may have been more intense back then.
TheSecondPiewackit
Yeah, and to quote Sleepy Hollow "So If I had awful intercourse with a guy, we'd be going on a second date?"
ThatMomentWhenImgurJokesAreOnlyFunnyToImgurians
I mean it was probably hard to tell
baaaaaas4
*importent moments in the history of America*
wittie888
9/11 would upvote post again.
newsguycraigevans
My favorite headline ever was the Onion following 9/11. - "Holy Fucking Shit! Attack on America!" It was the only time I laughed that week
OZVerti
Just plane wrong...
EnvoyEngineer
I see what you did there.
ButterfaceTaintClown
As the second tower fell, I felt like I'd seen it all before.
trolol12
Sir...... +1
AllWeAreIsDustinNguyen
"104 die in Hawaii raid"? 2335 military and 68 civilians were killed at Pearl Harbor. Who are they counting, Japanese pilots?
MidlandRedux
Initial estimates. It took days to get a final tally.
notme222
Yeah, I think their press deadline clearly didn't have time to wait for an actual tally.
vulgarbaby
"2 American warships sunk" wut
DoesThisKeyboardWork
Glad I wasn't the only one baffled there
yeoldefrog
Uh this is too big a mystery for me. I think we'd better call in the Hardly Boys.
slickdickricktherockskippingchampionoftheworld
yes! was just thinking. some type of fear saving tactic there....
TheFrenchGirl
Remember it was 1943: control of the newspapers, phone call were expensive, most people communicate by letters. It was easy to hide 1/2
TheFrenchGirl
informations from people, especially information from a remote place in an other continent. 2/2
FranktheMailman
While Hawaii is indeed remote, it is still a part of the US, not another continent
TheFrenchGirl
Politically, yes, but geographically, informations from there have to travel by officail medias like newspapers at that time. No 1/2
TheFrenchGirl
chance it comes from people to people, like it could be from San Francisco to Los Angeles. 2/2
Freeflare
They were lying. This was before 24 hour news, when they thought 'Ok, we won't tell the world the Pres can't walk. No real need.'
GroundUpMoonRocksArePurePoison
The date on that paper says April 7th 1942. I was wondering also.
YourAverageAssassin
It also looks like it says Sunday but April 7th 1942 was a Tuesday.
Dowtchaboy
Maybe a reprint in 1942 of "Our front page the day the war started!"?
penismangofiesta
It clearly says December 8, 1941.
MidlandRedux
On the headline banner it says December 8th, but on the upper right it says April 4th. Its a reprint.
professionalrookie790
If you are at war it's usually not a good idea to tell the world exactly how many people and ships you've just lost.
MidlandRedux
They were giving most of the story within a day or two. Roosevelt wanted to be perfectly clear on what happened . . .
MidlandRedux
. . . Although they had a running argument with the navy about ship losses for about 11 months. Then Roosevelt insisted . . .
MidlandRedux
. . . That the people be kept reasonably informed about the loss of ships and family members. "THEIR ships, not the navy's ships."
Tanishh
Except that the Japanese knew full well it was more than "2 transports". And it usually IS a good idea to be transparent and honest about
MoistTissue
We also could of lied and said "local carriers sunk in rush to get back to fleet as they run aground next to shore
TheFrenchGirl
Not the same time. It was rather easy to hide information from a country to an other by controlling newspapers alone at that time.
Tanishh
your reason for going to war. 2000 men is hardly nothing but it's not like the Japanese see that and go "Aha! Crippled!"
Refmylife
No they say clippled.
SuharuStormrage
kurippuru
ThoughtfulTortuga
*American history with a comedy entry from another country for good measure
Acera
I thought they were all being comically referred to as important...
Asteroidrules
Two comedy entries from two different countries, didn't you see John Lennon in there?
whysosingle
How about *International history.
ThoughtfulTortuga
You genuinely believe this is an international view of world history?
odamanda
Literally all your entries but one are about events happening in the US or tied to it. So, no. FYI, the majority of Imgur isn't from the US.
dasklaus
But with a very noticeable focus on American media and history if you're honest. (I don't mind much, I'm just nitpicking)
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ThoughtfulTortuga
Yes, of course, but that doesn't change the fact this is basically an American history post.
TheDudeThatIsMo
Wait, that tabloid isn't from America?
Shemjaza
NT = Northern Teritory, in Australia.
Shemjaza
For context that's one of the bits with the deserts, giant sacred rocks and man eating river monsters.
TheDudeThatIsMo
I see. Thanks.