Southerly: This Week in Parliament: 20 October 2014 - 24th October 2014
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
steganographers!
A astute observation there Mr. :D
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David Haywood, in reply to
trouble up at Pitman…
I really should subcontract you to do the sub-headings, Ian!
Incidentally, I've always thought headlines are something the British newspapers do really well. My favourite was when a large chocolate retail chain went bankrupt: "Top Choc Shop Flop Shock". Try saying that quickly.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
I've always thought headlines are something the British newspapers do really well.
Ausies ain't too bad either, although they do tend to be a little grubby. I remember back in the eighties when a large transport company hit the skids. Headline: Aus Trucking Failure. Always sounded like a Spoonerism to me.
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My favourite ODT headline was "Police stoned during IRA raid" I always wondered how they got that past the powers that be
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Even our own Granny Herald came up with "Letters lost in male".... an article about a drug mule that turned themselves in to police a few days after arriving in the country, as the swallowed condoms full of drugs hadn't come out the expected passage.... (circa 1981/2 or so?).
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nzlemming, in reply to
Incidentally, I’ve always thought headlines are something the British newspapers do really well.
"Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster!" is one I recall fondly from the Daily Mail.
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Amanda Wreckonwith, in reply to
’twas T’Sun
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China Daily back in '02 or '03: "Bush Blames Mohammed".
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I think your correspondent will be interested in next Monday’s report, where Ebola will certainly be (tastefully) mentioned.
Stop Press: Ebola Post about to go viral.
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nzlemming, in reply to
’twas T’Sun
So it was. I always get those two mixed up...
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PHEW WHAT A SCORCHER!!!
Temperatures soar into the 20s
Every blood August... -
linger, in reply to
Was that one of the stories they got from the Onion?
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Ululate
What a wonderful word.
But surely, for this type of verbal unintelligible utterance from the sound box such a word should have been onomatopoeic.
1620s, from Latin ululatus, past participle of ululare (see ululation ). Related: Ululated ; ululating.
(waits for howls of laughter....)
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
from the Onion?
Unfortunately, no, it was a real article. Quite possibly one of the foreign subeditors seeing an opportunity for self-expression of the kind that'd fly under the boss' radar.
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