Inappropriate News Headlines ...
Oct. 7th, 2004 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiat_knoxIn the past few days, a cousin of mine, a lovely lady who lives in the wilder parts of North Wales, gave birth to a bouncing baby boy: a son she named Huw.
It's a moment we're all proud of, all over the clan. We're all sending cards and gifts to the girl and, of course, to the newcomer.
(There you go, Tony Blair. A constituent who was born yesterday. You always wanted one ...)
The public announcement was made in the Announcements column, which occupied the bottom half of a page of the Liverpool Daily Post for today.
The top half carried a news article concerning some comment on a modern architectural construction in Wales or other, utterly unrelated to the announcements column: but it was a singularly inappropriate heading, considering that all eyes were being drawn to announcements of all these births.
The top heading read:
What can you say to something like that?
It's a moment we're all proud of, all over the clan. We're all sending cards and gifts to the girl and, of course, to the newcomer.
(There you go, Tony Blair. A constituent who was born yesterday. You always wanted one ...)
The public announcement was made in the Announcements column, which occupied the bottom half of a page of the Liverpool Daily Post for today.
The top half carried a news article concerning some comment on a modern architectural construction in Wales or other, utterly unrelated to the announcements column: but it was a singularly inappropriate heading, considering that all eyes were being drawn to announcements of all these births.
The top heading read:
It's A Monstrosity
What can you say to something like that?
