https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/headless-body-topless-bar-headline-40th-anniversary-20230414.html

When I was writing regularly for the Economist, which focuses on clever puns and double entendres in its headlines, I had most of mine rewritten by editors.

But for an article about a stringed instrument purchased via eBay that the recipient believed had a faked authenticity label and was told by PayPal to destroy rather than return—as it can be illegal to send counterfeit goods through the mail—I came up with this:

"Senseless Violins"

https://www.economist.com/babbage/2012/01/05/senseless-violins

‘Headless Body in Topless Bar’: 40 years later, the story behind an iconic newspaper headline

By 1983 standards, the headline went viral — nearly all of the 965,000 daily newspapers that rolled out of the Post’s building in Lower Manhattan were sold.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
@glennf If only a saxophone were involved.