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Bubba Zebill

Quote from: Supermarine Troutfire on 13 February, 2013, 08:58:16 AM
Lots of fun, that.  :) I admit I work for a paper that had a headline "Man held over Kinross fires".

Oops.

Nobody can top the staggering headline of the Aberdeen Press and Journal on the day it announced the sinking of the Titanic - 'ABERDEEN MAN DROWNS'...I shit you not.
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Trout

Quote from: BOODA on 13 February, 2013, 02:28:06 PM
Quote from: Supermarine Troutfire on 13 February, 2013, 08:58:16 AM
Lots of fun, that.  :) I admit I work for a paper that had a headline "Man held over Kinross fires".

Oops.

Nobody can top the staggering headline of the Aberdeen Press and Journal on the day it announced the sinking of the Titanic - 'ABERDEEN MAN DROWNS'...I shit you not.

I have to explain this to people a lot, but that's just a story. It never happened.

http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2012/news/scottish-daily-nails-titanic-myth-as-it-goes-tabloid/

Sorry.

Bubba Zebill

Quote from: Supermarine Troutfire on 13 February, 2013, 02:33:42 PM
Quote from: BOODA on 13 February, 2013, 02:28:06 PM
Quote from: Supermarine Troutfire on 13 February, 2013, 08:58:16 AM
Lots of fun, that.  :) I admit I work for a paper that had a headline "Man held over Kinross fires".

Oops.

Nobody can top the staggering headline of the Aberdeen Press and Journal on the day it announced the sinking of the Titanic - 'ABERDEEN MAN DROWNS'...I shit you not.

I have to explain this to people a lot, but that's just a story. It never happened.

http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2012/news/scottish-daily-nails-titanic-myth-as-it-goes-tabloid/

Sorry.

No, thank you!
I hate getting caught by hoaxes and myths. A few years ago I even checked out the story and was convinced it was true. So it goes...(burning sensation on face)...I'll get my rad-cloak.
Judge Dredd : The Dark (Gamebook)
http://tinmangames.com.au/blog/?p=3105

Dandontdare

Heh, I was also told this same story years ago by my tutor when I did a journalism course - but he attributed it to some rag called the Dundee Courier - now who'd work for a shower like that? Trouty put me right when we chatted about this at a con last year.

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Proudhuff

Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 13 February, 2013, 04:47:08 PM
I'm going into the attic in a moment, exciting or what!

is that like coming out the closet?
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Bubba Zebill

Quote from: Dandontdare on 13 February, 2013, 04:43:50 PM
Heh, I was also told this same story years ago by my tutor when I did a journalism course - but he attributed it to some rag called the Dundee Courier - now who'd work for a shower like that? Trouty put me right when we chatted about this at a con last year.

These things can be remarkably resistant to truth...now, about that angel of Mons...
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Frank

Quote from: Supermarine Troutfire on 13 February, 2013, 08:58:16 AM
Lots of fun, that.  :) I admit I work for a paper that had a headline "Man held over Kinross fires".

A recent front page of the Alloa and Hillfoots Advertiser (est 1841) bore the headline Sauchie Riots: man arrested. The apparent small scale of the riots explains how I managed to be completely unaware they had taken place.

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DAMN YOU UNIVERSE!

</shakes fist into sky>

Or perhaps CF ;)

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