News article of the day ..................... possibly the year

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Paddles B'mere
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Carantoc
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25 Sep 2020 7:00am
Paddles B'mere said..
...I've got nothing to add


Sounds like plenty has been added already
Carantoc
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25 Sep 2020 7:03am
My most-est favorite one ever was in the local paper many years ago.

Page 3 news, so not quite front page headlines but right up there with important stuff going on in the region.

The article, in its entirety was :

Jacket Stolen
Sometime between last Sunday and
Thursday a jacket was stolen from a
shed in Watchet. The shed was
unlocked. The jacket had no value.
GreenPat
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25 Sep 2020 9:09am
Carantoc said..
My most-est favorite one ever was in the local paper many years ago.

Page 3 news, so not quite front page headlines but right up there with important stuff going on in the region.

The article, in its entirety was :

Jacket Stolen
Sometime between last Sunday and
Thursday a jacket was stolen from a
shed in Watchet. The shed was
unlocked. The jacket had no value.


Was that a secret code message? Maybe that was green-lighting a clandestine operation by deep cover spies?
Pugwash
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25 Sep 2020 7:19am
And the story came from?

Reuters!!
Carantoc
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25 Sep 2020 9:49am
GreenPat said..
Was that a secret code message? Maybe that was green-lighting a clandestine operation by deep cover spies?


Maybe. Or maybe that was on the weather page, I recall it may have said something like :

Heavy Weather forecast for next week :
The red fox will leave the hen house at the next full moon. The carnation will be worn under the clock tower by the Victorian architect who has many names and knows the truth.


I just assumed it meant it was going to rain, but maybe I stand corrected ?.
Waterloo
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25 Sep 2020 11:54am
...and in other news, police also shut down the chewing gum factory next door making Wriggleys...
JulianRoss
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25 Sep 2020 10:03am
Occasionally the Northern Territory daily comes up with crackers. I remember their front page headline was "Best man hit by flying dildo'... or words to that effect..
elmo
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25 Sep 2020 11:30am
Imagine the job description
FormulaNova
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25 Sep 2020 4:39pm
Carantoc said..

Heavy Weather forecast for next week :
[i]The red fox will leave the hen house at the next full moon. The carnation will be worn under the clock tower by the Victorian architect who has many names and knows the truth.

.


That is so confusing. Obviously very much a coded message as the reference to the architect that knows the truth is clearly fantasy. You would think people making up these codes would do better than that.
CH3MTR4IL5
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2 Oct 2020 6:57pm
JulianRoss said..
Occasionally the Northern Territory daily comes up with crackers. I remember their front page headline was "Best man hit by flying dildo'... or words to that effect..




With a bonus headline

kk
kk
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kk kk
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2 Oct 2020 7:37pm
And wait till you hear where it came from!!!

Not mention winning a pearl necklace all on the same page..
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