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The Daily Mail Camptown Races headline challenge

 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
19:11 / 27.08.03
It is a journalistic fact that the best headlines can always be sung to the tune of The Camptown Races. No, really. Ask Sax and Grant.

Thus:

Man in wheelchair hit by train, doo-da, doo-da

or

Drug-fuelled rampage ends in death, oh de doo da dey

So, this thread is a search for the best possible hysterical red-top tabloid headline, suggesting that we are surrounded by dark forces of poverty and moral degeneracy, many of which may be French. To the tune of this popular American folk song. While not actively hateful, it must suggest, as is the wont of our beloved red-tops, that those involved should be sent back to their own country, sent to do their National service, put up against a wall and shot or given a bloody knighthood, depending on circumstances.

My humble offering, to start us off,

Tony Martin Sainsburys clash, doo dah, doo dah,
Lottery jackpot goes to gays, oh de doo dah dey,
Goes to gays all night,
Goes to gays all day,
Beggars eating National Grid,
Asylum "just five pounds away"
 
 
Mourne Kransky
19:39 / 27.08.03
Duncan Smith is sex on legs, say floater voters,
Camilla eats Queen's corgis raw, with lite mayonnaise,
Get your news from us,
Like maggots eating pus,
We think global warming's great
It's like we're in Provence
 
 
Whisky Priestess
19:41 / 27.08.03
Michael Flatley found with crack, doo dah, doo dah
Dealers say they want it back, doo de doo dah day
Bought by single mums
For this tax we pay? (/Yoda)
Paedophile ring run by child
Child smuggled in from Bombay
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
21:11 / 27.08.03
Modern women cannot cook, doo dah, doo dah
Schools teach children how to fuck, oh de doo dah dey
And where to buy drugs,
So Solid Crew are thugs,
Modern music frightens us,
Yes, even Coldplay.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
21:33 / 27.08.03
Ohhhhhhhh
EU wants to tax our kids,
Doodah, doodah,
Cancer caused by horror vids,
Oh de doodah day,
Tories say UK
Needs a giant fence,
Pry the pound from our cold dead hands,
Keep your mitts off the pence.
 
 
unheimlich manoeuvre
22:16 / 27.08.03
Asylum seekers swarming here, doo dah, doo dah,
Lazy as sin and law-breaking, oh de doo dah dey,
Law-breaking all night,
Law-breaking all day,
Gangs stealing from Harrods store,
Execution's too good I say!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:25 / 27.08.03
Asylum seekers eat our swans, doo dah, doo dah
Man drowns in bath high on drugs, doo de doo dah day
Lottery winner mugged
Lottery winner drugged
Working causes breast cancer
Britney: "I'm not gay"
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
22:35 / 27.08.03
Jordan has John Leslie's child, doo-dah, doo-dah,
Sophie, 20, drives us wild, oh dee do dah day.
Paedophile with knife
Stabs Dr Kelly's wife
Next BB house freshly tiled
And Georgie plays away...
 
 
Sax
06:15 / 28.08.03
Haus is right, of course. This has been an industry secret for more than a century and a half.

Breast implants can make you gay, doo dah, doo dah
You'll die if you go on holiday, doo dah doo dah dey
J.Lo's arse is fake,
There's a monster in the lake,
A judge with a grudge and a liking for fudge
sucks knobs, insiders say.
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
06:50 / 28.08.03
Loony badger ate my child, doo dah, doo dah,
British yobbos shag on beach, doo de doo dah day,
Hands off our pound coins,
Thieving Eurocrats,
Jordan's baps explode in club,
Doo de doo dah day.
 
 
No star here laces
07:47 / 28.08.03
Motorists are victimised, doo dah, doo dah
Vanessa Feltz is super-sized doo dah doo dah day
Atkins diet scare
Baby panda bear
We wish all the blacks would die, doo dah doo dah day
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
08:10 / 28.08.03
Warne can't keep it in his pants, doo-dah, doo-dah
US still not hot on France, oh-the-doo-dah-day
Carr's debate on booze
Results in public snooze
Wesley's gone and popped his clogs
But Yanni's not dead yet.

Kidnappings are on the rise, doo-dah, doo-dah
Lose inches off your bum and thighs, oh-the-doo-dah-day
Liza'a back on drugs
Tyson's still a thug
Win an Ibiza holiday
Find coupons inside.
 
 
Mr Messy
10:58 / 28.08.03
Alvin Stardust's Stage Surprise, doo dah, doo dah,
Codpiece explodes, contents fried, oh dee do dah day.
"MP", claims rent boy,
"Did not wash sex toy."
Transplant girl, real tears inside.
Pygmy shrews invade!
 
 
Sax
11:35 / 28.08.03
Genuine headlines from today's Daily Star:

Sex-pest butcher flashed his pork, doo dah, doo dah
Boy, 13, blown up by shirt, doo dah doo dah dey
Heatwave a cracker
Ibiza still rocking
Kylie love rat quits Britain,
Bobby on the jobby.
 
 
ephemerat
12:40 / 28.08.03
More genuine headlines from the current online edition of The Sun (I slightly rearranged the words on the fourth line for the purposes of the rhyme but, apart from that, all exactly as printed...):

Paedophile aged just 15, Doo-dah! Doo-dah!
They'll swap art for heroin, Oh-de-doo-dah-day!
Would you dare to bare?
Down Under terror scare
SAS chuck hero off base
Oh-de-doo-dah-day!

.....

Actually faintly disturbing...
 
 
bjacques
12:46 / 28.08.03
Haw! It was once said that Emily Dickinson's poetry could be sung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas," but I think that's only true for Because I Could Not Stop For Death.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
15:03 / 28.08.03
Here's some that're inspired by my place of work. I've subbed the stories in question.

Harry sprang from Hewitt's sack, do-dah do-dah
Marriage ending? Jen hits back, oh-the-do-dah day.
I was once a man!
Mum gave birth in the can
Come and check out Kylie's rack
And her new Frenchman.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
19:52 / 28.08.03
All of Essex middle class, doo dah, doo dah
Nice girls take it up the arse, oh de doo dah day
Brighton "town of plebs"
Nude pics of celebs!
Eco-motor runs on grass - BAN IT! Sun readers say ...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
22:10 / 28.08.03
Emily Dickinson is "Amazing Grace"...

Much mad-ness is divinest sense,
To the discerning eye...
 
 
Pingle!Pop
21:43 / 31.08.03
This is, I'm afraid, a shameless *bump*, as I refuse to let this thread die too easily; I need some form of entertainment while at w*rk. As an attempt at justification, I've cobbled a rhyme together from mostly genuine headlines...

Beck's ex: "He just wanted sex", (doodah, doodah...)
Gay rape scare: you could be next! (doodah, doodah day...)
Diaz, Sandler really rich
Emma is just a *****
Bogus refugees: the key suspects (oh, de doodah day...)
 
 
El Gato Was Right: the t-shirt
04:50 / 01.09.03
Altar boys pet bishop (doodah doodah)

White slavery ring in Leeds sweet shop (doodah doodah)

Princess Di Alive!

Coma twins survive!

Sexy teach seduces teen (all the the dooda day)
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
23:45 / 01.09.03
Ahh, this takes me back. When I was filing for those disfunctional faecocephalics at the National Lottery Charities Board, staff used to bring in the juiciest anti-NLCB headlines and stick them on the walls. The first line is a genuine headline, the rest are sort of paraphrased.

Gay barbecues burn Lotto cash (Doodah! Doodah!)
Asylum Seekers dressing flash (Doodah doodah day.)
Youth Club goes without,
The dog's home's getting nowt.
Opera house grant is deemed "rash"--
We still don't have our pay.
 
 
MJ-12
00:02 / 02.09.03
Emily Dickinson is "Amazing Grace"...

Of course, this means that "Amazing Grace" maps onto "The Yellow Rose of Texas" quite nicely.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
01:07 / 02.09.03
Mordant: they're calling it the Community Fund now - and it's much nicer working on reception. Still chocker with sickly pictures of underprivileged coffin-dodgers and rugrats though, and occasionally get the odd rabid loony phoning to complain about international aid going to a bunch of shiftless foreigners.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
08:44 / 02.09.03
Ah, the feckless. Where would we be without them?
 
 
Cat Chant
12:58 / 20.10.05
Best thread-killing line EVAH!!!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:38 / 20.10.05
Oh, the halcyon days of Leaptopia...
 
 
Triplets
15:41 / 23.10.05
Fergy fury at guard party - doo dah doo dah
Jamelia gives birth to big fat kid - oh dee doo dah day
The boy who feels no pain
Gwyneth preggo again
Naughty naughty sex train romp
Parrot cold hits UK
 
  
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