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Post by The Bishop on Sept 25, 2024 11:08:42 GMT
Coventry is 2 hrs drive from the nearest beach at Burnham on Sea Local news my absolute actual arse Indeed it is close to Meriden, one of the traditional candidates for "England furthest from the sea". |
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Post by john07 on Sept 26, 2024 15:13:40 GMT
Wasn't there a "Allies Push Bottles Up Germans"? Usually quoted as "8th Army Push Bottles up Germans" but apocryphal. Likewise "MacArthur Flies Back to Front". But "Dr Fuchs Off to South Ice" is apparently genuine. I have seen a copy of the 8th Army headline. It was in a booklet by Fritz Spiegl (flautist and writer of the Z-Cars theme) called 'What the papers didn't mean to say'. It included loads of unintentional misprints along with plenty of deliberate 'errors' such as the 'Fuchs off again' quote along with illustrative cartoons. Other deliberate ones included 'Homosexual Bill goes to the Lords' and 'MPs cheer Bill on homosexual behaviour'. The accompanying cartoon showed the eponymous Bill being cheered on his arrival at Parliament amid wild applause. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Sept 26, 2024 15:34:21 GMT
Usually quoted as "8th Army Push Bottles up Germans" but apocryphal. Likewise "MacArthur Flies Back to Front". But "Dr Fuchs Off to South Ice" is apparently genuine. I have seen a copy of the 8th Army headline. It was in a booklet by Fritz Spiegl (flautist and writer of the Z-Cars theme) called 'What the papers didn't mean to say'. It included loads of unintentional misprints along with plenty of deliberate 'errors' such as the 'Fuchs off again' quote along with illustrative cartoons. There is an image on p. 49 of Spiegl's "Keep Taking the Tabloids!" but it lacks any other surrounding newspaper gubbins which you might see had it been a clipping so I suspect was created not copied. |
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Post by Chris from Brum on Sept 26, 2024 15:47:57 GMT
I have seen a copy of the 8th Army headline. It was in a booklet by Fritz Spiegl (flautist and writer of the Z-Cars theme) called 'What the papers didn't mean to say'. It included loads of unintentional misprints along with plenty of deliberate 'errors' such as the 'Fuchs off again' quote along with illustrative cartoons. There is an image on p. 49 of Spiegl's "Keep Taking the Tabloids!" but it lacks any other surrounding newspaper gubbins which you might see had it been a clipping so I suspect was created not copied. I remember finding that book at my in-laws. This also cited a headline reporting on a famous speech by Randolph Hearst, the headline being "Pen is mightier than sword", with the space between the first two words being somewhat narrower than usual. |
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Post by greenchristian on Sept 26, 2024 18:17:51 GMT
Coventry is 2 hrs drive from the nearest beach at Burnham on Sea Local news my absolute actual arse Indeed it is close to Meriden, one of the traditional candidates for "England furthest from the sea". By "close to" you actually mean "has a border with". |
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Post by Khunanup on Oct 12, 2024 18:58:55 GMT
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Oct 13, 2024 13:33:02 GMT
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Post by jamesdoyle on Oct 13, 2024 19:13:05 GMT
I'm pretty sure this one is apocryphal . As apocryphal as the purported headline on a story about a former Labour Party leader chosen to chair a group looking into disarmament, said to have been in The Times in the mid 1980s but untraced in print. ("Foot heads arms body") I'm sure I've posted on this before. It was a letter to The Times, obviously intended as a joke. As far as I can recall, the letter ran something like: 'Sir, If Michael Foot became Prime Minister, and was informed that the Chief of the Defence Staff supported the National Front's street tactics, would the headline read, 'Foot knows arms body head backs front muscle'?. Yours etc.' |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Oct 13, 2024 19:37:04 GMT
As apocryphal as the purported headline on a story about a former Labour Party leader chosen to chair a group looking into disarmament, said to have been in The Times in the mid 1980s but untraced in print. ("Foot heads arms body") I'm sure I've posted on this before. It was a letter to The Times, obviously intended as a joke. As far as I can recall, the letter ran something like: 'Sir, If Michael Foot became Prime Minister, and was informed that the Chief of the Defence Staff supported the National Front's street tactics, would the headline read, 'Foot knows arms body head backs front muscle'?. Yours etc.' There was a teacher at my school called Tony Ahmed. He taught biology of all things. |
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Post by The Bishop on Oct 18, 2024 11:31:07 GMT
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