Wednesday 9 December 2009

Very Real


One of the greatest forces for good, liberty and freedom - not to mention the defence of the free world - is in very real danger of being banished to the history books for ever.
   - The Daily Mail (possibly discussing itself).

I disagree with the idea that the danger is very real. I imagine the danger to be slightly real. Or maybe it's very surreal. One of the two. Surreal and unreal dangers are scandalously underreported in British Newspapers. I tested this out by telephoning the Guardian newsdesk to report that I was being chased by an elephant whose reflection looked like a swan. The shrift that I was given can best be described as short.
 
 

Just another day at the Inky Fool offices

3 comments:

  1. I'm not sure I agree. I think the newspapers tend to report unreal dangers quite often. Think of bird flu, Y2K, end of world being brought on by Hadron collider, anything found in the horoscopes.

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  2. Madam Sosostris, my ornithomancer, assures me that the implosion of the large hadron collider has been foretold by a coughing pelican.

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  3. Who laments these androgynous days when intelligent women are disappearing from our TV screens save for the voluptuous Furong Jiejie?

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