Friday, February 02, 2007
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Funny headline on NewsBiscuit! Internet in shock!
"Italian waiter with normal sized pepper mill disappoints hen party."
It's not amazing but compared to the usual crud that kicks about on their it ain't bad. There was a story to go with it but obviously I didn't read that.
The stuff on there is just so often sub-standard; it's a strange amalgam of the socio-political, the twee and the absurd which doesn't quite work. Look at this from today's front page:
"Turin shroud dyed pink in washing machine bungle.
The Turin Shroud, believed by many to be the last veil of Jesus Christ, has been accidentally thrown in a washing machine by a contract cleaner at the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin. Worse news was to follow when the sacred relic was discovered to have been died pink by an errant red T-shirt.
The mistake was noticed half way through the economy spin cycle after a cardinal raised the alarm that the shroud had gone missing.
‘I just couldn’t believe it” said cleaner Rosa-Maria Delarosa. ‘The bishop himself came running in and asked where the shroud was. You should have seen their faces when I explained. It was like something you see in one of those prank shows. I half expected a TV crew to pop out any minute. Sadly they didn’t."
There's no real joke there. Nothing. The 'dying your clothes pink' is as old as I am and ceased to be funny in as I became pubic. The idea that someone put the shroud in the wash is silly, but that doesn't mean it's funny. Surely there would be more material if the image had been washed away rather than the whole thing dyed pink. It's unfair to pick on one story but this is about the standard on the site.
What's that? Sour grapes? Don't be silly. I don't care that they didn't publish my articles that I put in...
WHY WOULDN'T THEY PUBLISH MY FUNNY STORIES? WHY? I'M AS FUNNY AS THEM BUT THEY WOULDN'T PUT THEM ON THEIR FRONT PAGE. IT'S NOT FAIR! IT'S NOT FAIR!
"Italian waiter with normal sized pepper mill disappoints hen party."
It's not amazing but compared to the usual crud that kicks about on their it ain't bad. There was a story to go with it but obviously I didn't read that.
The stuff on there is just so often sub-standard; it's a strange amalgam of the socio-political, the twee and the absurd which doesn't quite work. Look at this from today's front page:
"Turin shroud dyed pink in washing machine bungle.
The Turin Shroud, believed by many to be the last veil of Jesus Christ, has been accidentally thrown in a washing machine by a contract cleaner at the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin. Worse news was to follow when the sacred relic was discovered to have been died pink by an errant red T-shirt.
The mistake was noticed half way through the economy spin cycle after a cardinal raised the alarm that the shroud had gone missing.
‘I just couldn’t believe it” said cleaner Rosa-Maria Delarosa. ‘The bishop himself came running in and asked where the shroud was. You should have seen their faces when I explained. It was like something you see in one of those prank shows. I half expected a TV crew to pop out any minute. Sadly they didn’t."
There's no real joke there. Nothing. The 'dying your clothes pink' is as old as I am and ceased to be funny in as I became pubic. The idea that someone put the shroud in the wash is silly, but that doesn't mean it's funny. Surely there would be more material if the image had been washed away rather than the whole thing dyed pink. It's unfair to pick on one story but this is about the standard on the site.
What's that? Sour grapes? Don't be silly. I don't care that they didn't publish my articles that I put in...
WHY WOULDN'T THEY PUBLISH MY FUNNY STORIES? WHY? I'M AS FUNNY AS THEM BUT THEY WOULDN'T PUT THEM ON THEIR FRONT PAGE. IT'S NOT FAIR! IT'S NOT FAIR!
