Tuesday, 4 January 2011

Insert Your Own Headline!


From the Surrey Local News website yesterday:


Standards, people, standards! Remove or replace placeholders before hitting 'Publish'...

5 comments:

  1. What is up with the one that just has a bunch of random letters for the headline? Whoever did that one could have tried a bit harder I think - at least thrown a few random numbers in there too.

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  2. In local news:

    Dog tied to a post.

    Sun rose this morning.

    I guess, on the positive side, if that is all they have to write about then maybe everything isn't going to hell in a handbasket?

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  3. To be honest, the headline and story at the top about "Asbo teen poetry" bothers me a lot more than the filler text being left in. The latter is just a one-off error, the former is revealing of a whole world of ruinous, ghastly wrong-headedness.

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  4. It's written in 'dog'.

    It's the noise dogs make when they're tied to a post outside a supermarket.

    The Asbo one is the odd one out because it hasn't been properly translated into 'chav', innit?

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  5. "Whoever did that one could have tried a bit harder I think - at least thrown a few random numbers in there too."

    I think Leg-Iron's right - it's in dog!

    "I guess, on the positive side, if that is all they have to write about then maybe everything isn't going to hell in a handbasket?"

    Think that's what they call false hope!

    "To be honest, the headline and story at the top about "Asbo teen poetry" bothers me a lot more..."

    Yeah, I had a look at that. Wonder what they are going to do now ASBOs are on the way out?

    "It's the noise dogs make when they're tied to a post outside a supermarket."

    Yes! :)

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