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A little wind up
By tall_pete
24 September 2007

Editor’s conference – deciding on the front page headline.

Frank:  How about ‘Terror Tornado Trashes Towns’

Editor:  Starts well, not sure about the ending though

Frank:  ‘Global Warming Weather Warning’

Editor:  Not bad alliteration, not sure it tells the story to me

Frank:  ‘Roofs Wrecked, Cars Crushed, Trees Trashed’

Editor:  Maybe a bit less alliteration

Frank:  ‘Strong winds in England – some damage’

Editor:  Don’t be facetious, we’re not the Guardian

Frank:  ‘Come friendly tornados drop on Luton’

Editor:  I’m not sure that most of our readers would get it

Frank:  ‘Luton devastated by tornado – rejoicing in the streets’

Editor:  What’s wrong with Luton.  No, forget that, but quite a few of our readers come from there

Frank:  Maybe we had been do the usual then

Editor:  Ok, run with ‘Posh gets her tits out’ on the front page and bury the weather on page 7

Reviews

Written by Livinginanattic (456 comments posted) 24th September 2007
Well done, you got this out before I'd even heard the story (the tornado, that is!) 
 
Of course Posh would get pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 15, with accompanying photos. Much more exciting than a boring old tornado.

Written by Bottleblondesurfer (3352 comments posted) 25th September 2007
Yes, very quick off the mark with this one. 
Very funny and very cynical, but probably depressingly accurate.  
My favourite was ‘Come friendly tornados drop on Luton’  
though if it was in the Guardian it would probably be torpedoes. 
One question- If Posh did her tits out how would we notice? [miaow, miaow] 
Jane 

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