The silly season
- 9 August 2011 17:51119595this article from the independent amused me, i could indentify with it.
News stories about saucily-shaped vegetables and silhouettes of religious leaders appearing on pieces of toast feature year-round, and are now much more widely circulated by the new media.
Every year, too, it's customary to find an article pointing out that many important world events have taken place in August, including the outbreak of the First World War.
But the silly season survives, because journalists like tradition, and because news does go on holiday with its makers. Join in by crossing off these as they take their annual bow:
1. Someone has been holidaying in the same resort for many years.
2. Egg fried on pavement.
3. Photograph of a brimming reservoir.
4. Shark off Cornwall; big cat near Woking.
5. Sheep learn to roll over cattle grids.
6. Famous middle-aged man has moobs.
7. Cow falls from clifftop onto caravan.
8. Topless sunbathing banned in Frinton.
9. BBC: too many repeats.
10. No one appears to be running the country. - 9 August 2011 18:20119601From the BBC
A middle aged man, sporting naked moobs, who is known to many,has been injured while holidaying for the umpteenth time far from the sharks of Cornwall and the wild cats of Woking, when a cow fell from on high frightened, so the story goes, by cattle-grid rolling sheep. The cow lit upon his caravan while he was longingly searching the coastal vista for topless sunbathers, a practice newly banned in his chosen resort of Frinton.
No eggs were broken, as far as is known, during this incident. We must add that contrary to our previous reports of this story Mr J Prescott was not involved and so could indeed be still running the country.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 9 August 2011 20:19119627
